22 Oct 1870
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1870
Page
1
Poem excerpt from the Evening Post where the speaker laments mortal confinement and longs to escape to the stars. The speaker thanks the heart even as it binds the soul, recalling love, life, and the promise of death and eternity.
In a New England kitchen Miss Agnew guards government bonds as a niece Mabel pines for James Montclair. After a moonlit tryst, bonds disappear, a search ensues, and the truth comes when James confesses via a playful note. The bonds are returned and the couple’s engagement is celebrated.
Readings describe rock shelters in France with hearths, bones of horses, oxen, reindeer, and fish, flint tools, scrapers, whistles, and evidence of cloth wearing. Cannibalism suggestions appear alongside mentions of early subsistence and bone-based crafts.
A warning about parental obligations emphasizes that fathers must not abandon or disinherit their children for any reason. The text argues for unlimited forgiveness and steadfast guidance, even amid rebellion, noting severing ties as a profound moral crime. It asserts the father's duty to guard and nurture the child born of his will.
The London trial and conviction of Margaret Waters revealed a merciless child murder scheme. She adopted unwanted infants from repentant parents and charged two shillings sixpence per child, supplying only a supposed home as comfort at eighteen pence weekly.
In Newark, Frank Jacobust scales the wooden square steeple to remove the decayed cross. He tests rotting knobs along the ascent, loses grip briefly, but regains hold and reaches the cross before the crowd below. The ascent costs about twenty five dollars and risks giddiness and a fall.
The Vossische Zeitung recalls Napoleon’s retreat from Metz and the siege era scene at Gravelotte. King of Prussia and dignitaries endured poor lodgings, waiting for news as Moltke declared victory and officers found scarce beds among wounded rooms.
The North Adams Chinese shoemakers are praised for virtues beyond credit, aiding a sick worker with wages, funding aid to California or China, and supporting a poor beggar with weekly money. They contribute pennies to charity and share resources, including woolens and flannels for winter.
The new English law grants wives a separate title to earnings since enactment and allows them to insure either their own life or their husband's for their own use. Personal and freehold property befalls them, and if husband or children become paupers the parish may claim. Wives with separate property can be sued, and bends are not liable for wives debts incurred before marriage.
In a period domestic exchange a lady asks a cook about his faith. The cook replies he follows the family’s religion as his duty, highlighting class and service norms in historic household life.
Fashion notes describe faille satin brocade crepe de chine silk gauze and taffeta evening dresses. Roses and floral trims dominate, with white poult de soie underskirts, pink sashes, and lace corsages. Evening toilettes feature tarletan overdresses blue silks and gold mounted fans.
The London Grocer notes higher coffee duty in Zollverein prompts German households to seek cheaper use. Finely ground or powdered coffee requires far less quantity for the same strength, with aroma preserved best when brewed by filtration rather than direct infusion or boiling.
The article prescribes using fresh lemons as a potent internal or external cooler for feverish or thirsty patients. It advises cutting the lemon, adding leaf sugar, and sucking slowly, with two or three lemons daily for invalids. A lemon at tea-time may replace tea, aiding sleep and morning appetite.
A burly Teuton aboard an omnibus smoked with a meerschaum in his mouth until the conductor reminded him that no smoking was allowed. The passenger, removing his pipe, replied in a thick accent I don’t make no noise ven I schmokes.
In Davenport Iowa Mr Koenig and his wife agreed to die by their own hands. The wife held her head under water until she complied. The husband then submerged himself and, with calm resolve, arranged for his wife’s burial after the deed.
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