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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1878
Page
4
A verse fragment from May 1878 questions social rites at a ball. The speaker asks permission to attend in pale green, wear blossoms, waltz with Alphonso, dance twice, and accept an ice from him. The lines reveal etiquette and courtship norms of the period.
A Burdette column in Hawkeye ponders endless questions about life, politics, manners, and human folly. The narrator notes train fatigue and shifts to concise musings on right and wrong, ambition, travel, money, language, and public figures.
Dr. A. S. Tracy argues death by hanging is painless due to cerebral congestion from neck vessel compression, causing quick unconsciousness before asphyxia. The note adds James G. Bennett and sister’s Europe trip exhibit Republican simplicity with few servants and baggage, and mentions Mississippi's last Republican daily newspaper stopping publication.
The item reviews James G. Bennet’s Arctic voyage toward the Pacific route to the North Pole, Cyprus falling to British control, a Maine region described as an earthly paradise, and notable Jewish achievements in Yale Williams and Jerusalem. It also notes rowing rivalries between Courtney and Hanlan and Henry M. Stanley’s romantic disappointment in Africa.
The piece reflects on farming as a hard toil yet blessed with independence and close nature. It contrasts the farmer’s view with poets praise, noting constant labor, weather worry, and the small yearly joys from birds and seasonal shifts. The voice notes both hardship and a deep bond with the land.
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