30 Apr 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1872
Page
1
A reflective poem portrays evening as a holy crown on the day. The speaker contrasts morning toil with night rest and imagines angels guiding footsteps toward peaceful sleep. The closing image invokes twilight as the day’s tranquil slumber follows a day of labor.
An elderly aunt recounts Hamburg winter social life and a tale about Major Burford Compton, who is said to be married to a difficult Englishwoman. Gertrude Buckmann, young and vivacious, learns of his situation and contemplates a possible union amid gossip and frosty city intrigue.
The narrator recalls a tangled romance in Hamburg and London involving Major Compton, his marked charm, and a widowed Englishwoman Mrs Compton whose jealous spouse status sparks scandal. The tale follows Gertrude Buckmann, a young attraction, and Marie Compton nee Fenigstein seeking love, loyalty, and a chance at happiness, ending with a duel death and a wife devoted to her child.
A reflective passage describes women retiring early for beauty sleep at ten, followed by the narrator, a middle aged person, lying awake half an hour later and pondering days gone by and youth lost for ever.
The Queen’s John Brown, an Aberdeen man and Prince Albert’s favorite ghilly, is praised for loyalty and foresight shaping royal expeditions. He rose to chief personal attendant after the Prince’s death, described as quiet, resolute, and deeply loyal, with a strong Scotch accent in evidence. The piece contrasts Brown’s trusted service with broader reflections on merit over age limits and pecuniary rules in governance, citing Thoughts on Government by Arthur Helps.
Readable reminiscence from a memoir recounting Father Taylor's humor in prayer meetings. It includes quotes such as melt that Snow and set fire to that Wood, a Springfield Conference debate on publishing donor names, and Taylor's jab about the poor widow and ostentation. It ends with a grape cultivation aside linking to his vine text.
A corpulent old lady asks for a train ticket and quips she prefers the cattle train after the clerk jokes about passenger versus cattle service. She insists on the cattle train if the passenger experience is as rough as his tease.
Dr DeLeon describes Greek women as modest in dress while men flaunt finery. He notes young girls are pretty with dark eyes and hair, while women excel in domestic virtue and church devotion. Family ties are strong, society is limited, and female religiosity dominates daily life.
Rose Cofmeyer a Milwaukee despatch office employee recently inherited Monte von Driscoll a farmer from Merton Wisconsin his death revealed a will leaving her his farm near Merton and about $20,000 total fortune the match began before illness struck.
The stern Burlington Iowa clerk refused a marriage license to a couple aged sixteen and fourteen, despite their anxious request.
Professor Humphrey explains that tissue function declines causing fatigue and rest is needed. He argues sleep results from a general decline in upper brain regions governing consciousness and will, with dreaming arising from widespread cerebral involvement rather than isolated parts.
The article advises watch owners that a watch’s accuracy mirrors the owner’s habits. Regular winding at the same hour, careful handling, and avoiding daily exposure to dust or extreme temperatures prevent irregularities and reduce the need for a watchmaker.
A Rochester Minnesota woman secured a patent for a fan device that attaches to a sewing machine and is powered by the machine’s own drive.
The Denver News recounts Jake Gilfillan in ragged buckskin and wolf-skin, wandering Denver like a relic from 1859. He misreads modern streets and railroads, seeking old landmarks and friends, unaware of war, Europe, and era-spanning iron rails.
A blaze in Erfurt's Augustine monastery, once Luther's home and reform ideas site, destroyed Luther's cell and the room where he drafted his plans. The fire consumed Luther's marginal note Bible, Beck's Death's Dance painting, and other relics, with estimated damage around sixty thousand thalers and incalculable historical loss.
The British Medical Journal notes Romans are following Cipriani who swallowed a fork prongs downward and is in agony. It cites Manchester patient Lund who survived a six inch dessert knife and reports cases where the alimentary canal bore unusual objects such as a lizard a file a tea spoon a bat and even a five franc piece.
A Fredericksburg Star correspondent describes George Williams a young Confederate soldier from Prince William County who lost an arm yet works harder than many two handed men. He loads a wagon with helpers, cuts hoop-poles, ties bundles with his teeth, plows his land, and drives a two horse wagon showing honesty bravery and citizenship.
Aristocratic young men of Ottumwa Iowa spend Sundays cock-fighting in upper story rooms, a practice noted in local circles for its clandestine social appeal.
The note list surveys diverse topics from science and crime to travel and fashion. It cites Salt Lake herring catches, Mexican insurgent recruitments, a mica mine in North Carolina, and Illinois rail and library efforts. Included are anecdotes about smallpox immunity, a Boston woman's encounter with a clerk, and a dramatic revival of a Boston woman freed from Arabian slavery.
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