25 Jun 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1872
Page
1
A mournful poem by Mary Clemmem Amcs expresses a childless mother’s grief. The speaker recalls a baby’s death, hides broken toys, and vows to resume work while questioning who will recognize motherhood’s crown.
Birkenhead the miser rebels against Zale's plans with Alec Poor. Wallrudden arrives to complicate the match, seduction ensues, and a fortune hinges on loyalties, deception, and a costly wedding that ends with Alec Poor outmaneuvering rivals.
A speaker warns that ordinary tobacco in plug form is an extreme poison, recounting a cruel demonstration with a ten year old volunteer and a calf, then shifts to public health notes on water safety. Dr. A L Wood is cited for guidance on preventing waterborne disease and outlines five ways water becomes fouled from air, weather, wells, rivers, and cisterns.
The article surveys Japanese customs and social rules seen in Yokohama, noting small opium pipes, a Yokohama club house, and absence of Yeddo venues. It describes games like chess and dominoes, rising billiard import, wrestling tradition with yearly embroidered prize, family duties, public order practices, and distinctive grooming. It also mentions press access and the emperor Mutsuhito, six feet tall at twenty two, as the current ruler.
The passage notes five Indian tribes in Alabama described as civilized temperate intelligent and pious with a total population of fifty five thousand souls and about ten percent converted to Christianity.
The Kentucky Legislature passes a bill allowing confinement in an asylum and guardianship for individuals who, due to excessive use of opium arsenic hasheesh or other drugs, become incapable of managing themselves or their estates.
Washington becomes a center for women writers and journalists with figures such as Harriet Prescott Spofford Gail Hamilton and Miss Vinnie Ream gaining recognition. Resident correspondents include Mrs Helen M Barnard Mrs Briggs Olivia Haven and Miss Rohena A Taylor while Miss Celia Logan remains editorially attached to the Capital and Miss Tay lor contributes vine disease studies and local pieces.
The piece notes that wealthy Mexican women, inspired by fashion, use live fireflies as bright ornamental accessories for special occasions. Indians catch the glowing cuenjo by tying a coal to a stick, buying them for about two reales a pair, and keeping the bugs in sugar-cane fed cages.
The article argues milk has comparable value to beef, eggs, and fish, with low water content and favorable cost. It cites Dr. Wiggin noting milk as the cheapest animal food at fifteen cents a quart and suggests digestion is improved by adding bread or starch and by cooking with rice and eggs as rice pudding. Boiling and diluting milk for drinking is advised.
A Dr Nichols anecdote explains quicksilver's unique ability to dissolve and amalgamate metals. It describes gold foil vanishing in mercury, and miners using mercury to extract fine gold from quartz before distillation yields pure metal. An old lady’s spectacles were destroyed by amalgamation in leather during a demonstration.
A digest of quirky incidents and regional notes from Detroit to Kentucky, including a Detroit doctor avoiding white patients, vast Catawba wine stocks in Cincinnati, a Chicago octogenarian mother, wolves for bounties, and Duluth opera house plans. Also reports on Baconsices Alabama, a Des Moines sleep-walker, Tennessee mulberries poisoning, and small-town curiosities.
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