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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1887
Page
4
The excerpt laments sorrow and woe as the sea mother pours out her heart in tears. It invokes despair amid storm and night and recalls lasting evils from fate, loss, and desolate houses, echoed by the London Spectator.
Harper's Bazar observes how note-paper fashions shift rapidly from cream-laid to rough-edged brown, urging women to adopt a personal, lifelong paper style. A fixed habit would keep them always in fashion, a personal crest in stationery.
A New York Mail and Express piece quotes a physician condemning nail biting as vulgar and unhealthy. It argues nails show neatness, warns of under-nail dirt and bacteria, and calls nail-biting a self-cannibal habit involving chewing flesh from the quick.
Detective Groden keeps a plated imitation wedding ring as a token of convenience for Castle Garden weddings. Since its use began seven or eight years ago, it has presided over about 354 marriages, averaging nearly one per week, with the ring officer noting each ceremony and participant. The ring is said to be gilt despite being base metal, yet its romantic history continues to unfold.
A Chicago gun shop encounter ends with a clerk offering a revolver described as a family weapon for domestic tragedies. The clerk explains six chambers with two bullets for the wife, two for the destroyer, and two for the man himself, a grim joke reflecting violence.
A fragment notes a woman with 225 hairpins holding back her hair between her teeth while speaking, highlighting a striking, puzzling image and the need to decode her words.
Mrs Ernest Hart of London describes reviving home crafts in Donegal to lift families from destitution. She notes initial hurdles from primitive weaving to Swiss machine competition, then details sending yarn, patterns, and training to remote villages, establishing agencies, ensuring orders, and achieving hand spun textiles and knitwear sold to Poole and fashion houses.
The article explains earthworms boost agriculture by aerating soil and distributing leaf mold. It notes worms bring up earth to the surface, covering sand with humus, and cites experiments and tonnage figures for worm-produced earth across fields in England.
A Chergo Herald summary notes a railroader argues railway workers receive $400 million in wages annually while owners gain $350 million in dividends and interest. He cites $8 billion in annual railway earnings, 5 percent return to securities holders, 125000 miles of track, and a per mile cost around $59 thousand. He concludes workers’ average pay is $500 with high salaries siphoning off funds.
Nashville residents display a two inch long dark glossy stone said to cure hydrophobia. Brought from England, the stone reportedly prevents rabies after dog bites, with several treated persons spared while untreated cases died.
A loon that had long inhabited the Schuylkill near Philadelphia was captured after flying into the Zoo logical Gardens. A silver collar engraved Nemo the hermit 1804 surrounds its neck, and the head keeper believes the bird is exceedingly old.
The Mail and Atlas promotes the Main and the new Family Atlas of the World at a low $2 advance subscription price. The Atlas alone is valued at $2 and is claimed unavailable elsewhere in Warren County at their rates. Now is advertised as the best time to subscribe.
The piece outlines courtship in southern Italy, where middle class girls face strict seclusion yet may gain balcony access and church visits. Love grows from fleeting glances to sung declarations, with elders and nurses mediating introductions, until a discreet betrothal is arranged and parental consent secured.
The New York Graphic notes a shift in feminine fashion from heavy false hair to lighter frizzes and bangs. Physicians say past chignon styles caused headaches and other ailments, but cosmetics rise now offsets some medical practice losses, suggesting a mixed net gain for health and vanity.
The English government has purchased a large number of Mexican saddles for use in the English cavalry service.
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