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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1887
Page
2
A farmer near Vendalis Ohio was swindled by roaming con artists selling fake patent paint. The trio obtained a $50 contract to paint barn and bones then a $250 note, with further attempts to press payments as more deceit surfaced.
Washington Market in Manhattan is bustling from dawn with retail stalls and a wholesale depot. Watchmen guard meat, poultry and fish as buyers, hotel stewards, and market workers move through the crowded blocks, while prices and origins of goods reveal a bustling urban food economy.
A collection of aphorisms on happiness, restraint, and effort opens with reflections on cheerfulness, rest, and hope as keys to well being. The piece then shifts to a New York letter discussing exorbitant medical bills paid by wealthy patrons for art and health care, naming Miss Wolfe, Mrs. Alexander Stewart, and Mrs. William Astor as examples, noting large annual sums and personal payments to doctors. The fragment ends with a note on botanical cultivation and a brief, unclear reference to The Carious Kermes Oak.
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