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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1870
Page
4
The piece presents a lyrical meditation on a grieving girl and faded beauty, pairing an English writer's tale with a vignette about Millie and her drunken father. It includes a duchy anecdote about the Duke of Sutherland and a park railing moment.
Arabella writes to the New York Post protesting long dresses returning to fashion and urging a Short Walking-Dress Society. She notes discomfort and ridicule, appeals for support from women and allies, and asks readers to publish names of supporters. She mentions husbands’ views and the aim to oppose fashionable restraints.
An essay argues that brilliant conversation often tires, praising Goldsmith not for precision but for its sociable, cheerful blundering. It contrasts Boswell's sneers at Goldsmith with a view that imperfect talk can be a pleasant relief even to Johnson and Burke.
A long extract describes the formation of a society to exhume and arrange bones from Solferino and San Martino battlefields, with seven hundred fifty-one trenches opened and eleven thousand skeletons gathered. It laments war’s cruelty, notes few identifiable medals, and mentions distraught families, amid scattered ad copy and miscellaneous text.
The notice advertises Briart Meat Market on Main Street offering around the clock access to meats during the summer. Mention of Scudder & Co and Belouf Beintzman & McCrachen suggests local business associations or partners in the sale.
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