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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1883
Page
4
Bill Nye laments the rag carpet a Chicago era heirloom worn with memories of family toil and dyes. He argues the stringy, poisonous carpet harms health, mocks fashion fads, and urges reform instead of revival.
Richard A Proctor, famed astronomy lecturer, recounts trying corset wearing for four weeks to reduce corpulence. He notes initial perceived benefits but endures three months of discomfort and, finally, returns to his normal stance, quitting the method.
An English traveler in India sends home a striking photo of twenty crocodiles surfacing and opening their mouths in a neon siesta. The piece also discusses oatmeal breakfast variations with Graham flour pudding and reports on retina photography theories from Professor Bell and Dr Ayers about last-impression retention and eye images.
A lecturer asks if young women are fit for wives and a woman retorts they are, but blames men for not fit for husbands. The exchange draws loud applause and leaves the lecturer visibly unsettled.
A miscellany of curiosities and reports from 19th century life including farming, tourism, wages, mineral ventures, legal quirks, and notable personalities. It covers land plaster use, hotel building in Mexico City, ministers’ salaries, a rock from an artesian well, maritime losses, weapon rights in Arkansas, Cuban ore imports, dog taxes, a Georgia physiologist, relics of Commodore Perry, reforms at Columbia College, coconut tree shoots after a hurricane, unusual bequests, executions in China, Patti Pagliacci salaries, a Stuttgart goose, London fashion tech, billiards star Jacob Schaefer, Whittier’s Carlyle letters, Lady Florence Dixie’s sister’s bread venture, Manassas ram facts, Saxony servant laws, Russian novelist Tourgenieff, Mount Vernon flag pledge, and a skunk ranch for medicine trade.
A New York correspondent spots George W. Peck, famed Peck's Sunman, on the Brooklyn Bridge with a large eel. Peck recounts his bold, comic attempt to fish from the bridge, including a long cast, a chat with a fresh-faced officer, and the claim of being the first to catch a fish off the bridge.
The Whalebone Hawker urged harmony amid predictions of doomsday. He pressed for the Lime Kiln Club to set an official date or convene the prophets to agree on a fall day after the melon season before rent runs short. The matter was referred to the Committee on Fisheries for a specific convenient date.
A Texas tale notes that mules may reach old age but horses are kept under eight years. Owners file teeth to mask age, and immigrant Mr. O Shea learns the practice after viewing around forty horses in Austin. Major Bryan jokes about a colt season eight years ago.
A peanut vendor is fined after beating a newsboy over a single peanut. The piece notes street urchins and workers pilfering peanuts, with vendors, policemen, and pedestrians as frequent petty thieves. It blends whimsy with urban hardship and nostalgia for the simple peanut.
A New York painter Mr Healey faced a comic portrait challenge with a heavily painted Southern lady. He persuaded Miss Jones to bathe her cheeks and rest, ensuring natural coloring for the canvas. Also noting a five ton land roller passing over an Indiana man without serious harm after thirty six years of marriage.
Dr Shoemaker warns against cutting or shaving hair to lengthen growth. He notes no permanent effect on hair bulbs or life, and that frequent trimming may yield coarser hair, pigment changes, split ends, and shorter overall lifespan. He cites Kaposi and Pincus on limited benefits. He claims early clipping strains hair-forming organs, affecting youths and adults alike.
A traveler recalls a dramatic scene in a railroad car where a woman forcibly places a man in a hot seat and asserts the man is her daughter's husband. The incident ends with a sharp retort about family autonomy. The piece closes with practical advice from The Brewing World on removing tastes from new wooden vessels by repeated scalding and a learned cleaning solution.
A Nashville American excerpt describes theatrical workers negotiating set pieces for a ruined castle prison and temple set, with a star complaining about stage directions and a moon cue while ensuring a dummy rig mirrors the actress’s costume as she moves to a sea loss scene. The dialogue reveals backstage tensions and the push for practical effects on a limited budget.
An anecdote recalls Yankee Sullivan striking a bullock with his bare fist to kill it on a sunbaked farm. The beast allegedly dropped and was turned into beef tea as observers frantically fetched buckets, the ground soaking up the vivid scene reported by the New York World.
A pair of youths staged a long hoax on Washington avenue near Sev enth street. One carried a sack with a hidden accomplice inside while another pretended to sell coal to passersby. The trick drew many reactions including gentlemanly camion assistance. Cincinnati courts rule frozen food unhealthy and punish sellers accordingly.
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