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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1871
Page
1
Awunt Jerusha broods by the kitchen stove on the eve of Thanksgiving. She longs for a husband and laments age, fortune, and unfulfilled romance while imagining law and courtship norms of the past. The poem traces memory, desire, and the social gaze on marriage and bachelorhood.
Herbert De Browne, a wealthy bachelor, loses his fortune and closes his Bank Street home. He moves to a lodging, loses friends, then a wealthy suitor, John Branchard, offers a job and introduces Susie Brandard. Herbert courts her, they marry, amid modest ceremony and newfound happiness.
A sonnet published in Lippincott's Magazine contemplates a mock-bird's return from last year. It recalls a previous spring when the bird offered golden melody from a window, and now again the same creature perches on the cottage roof, its music rising to enrapture the noon.
Report of the Coburn sinking after leaving Sault Ste. Marie on the Duluth to Buffalo run with about thirty crew and forty passengers aboard. A gale wrecked the vessel, lifeboats saved several, and survivors and missing officers are named. many aboard perished, including Captain Demont.
A husband faces financial strain as his wife discovers his penniless state. She asks him to lend her father ten thousand dollars, revealing she knew of the trouble all along. He agrees, choosing love over divorce, and lends the money to her father.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a natural curiosity near Crab Orchard showing daily ebullition and a 10 to 15 foot flame from carburetted hydrogen gas. Despite theories of atmospheric pressure, the regular diurnal overflow occurs across seasons, with no satisfactory explanation given.
A National Carpenter article describes an English engineered tramway in Turkey where mules walk beside a single central rail. A balancing bar connects the mule backs to a wheeled cart, preventing tipping and boosting traction. The inventor envisions military use and urban tramways with limited land space.
Mrs Josslyn, a washerwoman, deposited 2500 with Harry Meiggs during prosperous days. She traveled to the South after reading reports of railway wealth in South America. Meiggs gave her a check covering the deposit plus interest, returning her money before the schemes failed.
A nanogenarian living beyond the Mississippi credits daily morning scrubs with a corncob for his longevity. Hall’s Journal notes that using two corncobs or adding evening scrubs might have extended life to a century. The piece argues old age resists theories and emphasizes hygienic habits as lengthening life despite human faults.
A committee investigated the excessive chastisement of a pupil in a Michigan public school. It concluded the act was not malicious but resulted from an undue appreciation of the boy's pantaloons thickness, rather than deliberate harm.
The remark claims a young man with a beard grows more hirsute when he speaks to a woman. It presents a humorous, observational trend without naming people or places.
Thomas Sheehan of Dunkirk New York faced ruin after a failed submarine grapple. a broken tap and a stubborn wife nearly ended his quest. He improvised using lime salt and carbon rich paste, hardened iron to steel, and after years of secret trial won patents in 1860 1867 and 1868. His process now licenses to major American railways saving locomotive wear and boosting his fortune.
In a Bloomsbury church setting Elizabeth Stuart Phelps depicts two youths who have grown together through shared mischief and schooling. A sermon on Christian amity leads to a tender moment as their eyes meet during hymn singing, sealing a bond that hints at lifelong togetherness.
In Jamestown area Russel County Mr James Jeffries serves on a U S petit jury describes a massive family story He married young and had nineteen children in fifteen years beginning with twins Seven pairs of twins among the brood five are married and he is grandfather to five children He notes large health and stature in himself and his eleven brothers with thirty seven twin pairs among them
Mrs. Patterson won the best butter prize at the Cleveland County Tennessee Fair. She is described as mistress of the White House during her father ex President Johnson's administration.
In Zanesville Ohio a young attorney Charles H Durban and his wife Lucy Seaman Durban died within minutes of each other after he shot himself at the bedside as she succumbed to tuberculosis. A note urged reconciliation in Paradise and a grim tale unfolds of a sorrowful marriage and a dramatic theater career for Lucy after his death.
A disinterred skull at Schell Creek Station prompts a tale of 1861 Nassau Street divorces. A young New York woman, seeking cheap emancipation from a dissipated husband, paid $50 for a quick decree rather than face honest litigation. The piece notes the era of sensational secret divorces and warns of disastrous consequences.
A Springfield religious sect calling themselves Elijahites, led by Elder Curry until recently, believes in earthly immortality through faith and a spiritual rebuilding of a temple. They anticipate forty years of upheaval, followed by a saints kingdom in the United States with 154,000 elect, Curry as leader.
A Liverpool letter notes women staffing hotel bars registration desks telegraph offices stores and shops. It highlights light nimble work as fitting for women and observes fashionable young ladies serving noble and wealthy customers at counters.
The piece extols the enduring sweetness of rose fragrance and its association with neatly dressed, virtuous women. It argues dried rose leaves plus lavender scent keep a wardrobe smelling fresh, while musk patchouli and jasmine lack the same wholesome associations.
The Rev. F. D. transitions from Catholic to Mandan Episcopalian and reverts to Catholic faith.
A M Y Correspondent observes that luck governs fires, noting that highly risky buildings often survive while insured properties burn, and that densely watched tenements suffer fewer blazes. He cites fire proof warehouses as frequent sites of arson for robberies, later punished.
A Sydney Empire writer details Australian salt lakes and mineral springs on the Paroo. Mounds rise ten to fifteen feet, forming oasis-like basins where weary travelers found life. Water is clear, soft, rich in magnesia, soda and alum, drinkable though shallow. Alum and soda crusted basins crack underfoot like frozen snow.
Prince Bismarck outlines decimalization of German currency, aligning with English gold standard. The coinage bases on the groschen as a mark divided into ten silver groschen and ten pfennige, replacing the current twelve. A mark gold piece and a twenty mark coin are proposed, with the latter equal to a half eagle.
Mrs Barry of the Boston Children's Mission reportedly spent a year making 551 garments and trimming hats and bonnets for the poor. She made 1 561 visits to the needy and traveled to another state to place nineteen destitute children in homes.
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