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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1886
Page
7
The text presents partial religious lines urging patience and faith under divine command. The fragment includes phrases about rolling away burdens, binding, idle bands, and an aiding angel, attributed to C. Beenwell. The legible parts resemble a devotional or didactic poem with exhortations to trust and persevere.
In a California mountain stage town, Alice Main becomes Joshua’s widow and takes work at Mrs. Chebburn’s Redwood House. A deadly accident tests trust as Joshua’s father Sewell Main recovers and Alice’s quiet strength reshapes debts of family and future. An unexpected romance blossoms with Joshua’s father, turning hardship into a refined, enduring bond.
A New York artist proposes a gas heated brazier system as a smoke free alternative for heating rooms. The design uses colored wine chunks in a brazier to heat a space about ten by twenty feet with no chimneys needed.
An ex Confederate recounts posing as deaf and dumb to avoid capture during General Early’s raid on Washington. He details being arrested, interrogated for hours through written questions, and outsmarting officials who suspect him, ultimately proving his identity and being released.
A fragmented draft discusses food, batter preferences, and personal beliefs. The speaker notes Rao fos as nearly as vital to happiness as orthodox religion and mentions a button-related thought as a contemporary aside.
A dental health column outlines several nerve and nervous toothache types with home care tips. It mentions neuralgia, nervous toothache, chill related pain, and blood impurity gumboils, listing warm wraps, teas, flannels, mustard applications, and soda rinses as relief.
In the damaged account a Confederate submersible capable of sinking itself was used in a doomed mission to strike a fatal blow against the Federal fleet near New Orleans. Volunteers boarded the vessel for a last voyage, knowing there was no return. The sortie ended with both ships sunk and the crew perishing, hailed as heroes by witnesses on shore.
An excerpt discusses elephant intelligence, contrasting it with dogs and horses. It notes elephants respond to driver commands from atop the animal, performing tasks like standing, stopping, lying down, and handing up, highlighting perceived superior understanding in some Indian observations. It mentions the term kucel and the elephant Saleem as examples.
The item surveys tea etiquette and social practices, noting distinctions between a regular tea and a high tea attended by married ladies and young women. It describes fashion trends, fabrics, trims, and accessories from hats to dresses, with mentions of limp fashion, blue blood, and Parisian influence, alongside stray notes on romance and personal anecdotes.
A Washington reception recalls a celebrated woman of the last generation praised for wit charity and character reading. A Western anecdote praises her home making power turning a log cabin into a charming dwelling. Also recounted is a New Century Guild tale of Miss Matilda Ridley of Salem N J who sews buttons for a fee and aids bachelors in a homelike establishment.
An obscure practice keeps secret the number of fire rooms where deaths occur in hotels. The practice spreads rumors as guests nationwide note the room number in headlines and silence about it. The Palmer case is cited where the fatal room was shunned. Bell-boys exploit guests breaking rules, trading tales for payment, while quiet exits shield all involved.
A recast scientific journal note outlines a digestibility scale for foods after ingestion. It ranks items from most digestible to less, citing beef broth and stewed items as highly digestible, with beef raw or barely cooked as less digestible, among other descriptions.
An article recounts a Milwaukee reporter who attacked the silver dollar, laments his own fall from influence, and reflects on his failed bold campaign to end demonetization. He recalls printing pains, shifting loyalties, and the rising gloom of currency debates in colonial times as a caution about public press power.
Baron Leon de Lenval offers a pritt for use Wem exall, framed as a financial note of 1887. The fragment hints at a created wealth claim and use rights, but details are unclear and the text reads as garbled OCR.
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