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Newspaper
Aiken Tribune
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1873
Page
1
Advertisement lists tabloid style pricing with options for 14 month, 6 month, and 2 month periods. Includes single copy pricing and volume discounts. Mentions weekly publication schedule and various subscription terms.
A fragmentary verse scene recalls a haunted Belgratia chamber where a midnight rite replays guilt and crime. Train of echoes, distant wail, and unseen figures fill the room as the hour passes toward dawn, ending with daylight dispelling the horror.
General Changarnier, veteran of the 1848 revolutions and Franco-Prussian War, leads the Right Centre in the Assembly. Though eighty, he proves vigorous, debater, and noted for probity, incorruptibility, and forceful opposition to Gambetta and Thiers. His influence rests on character and public trust rather than political trickery.
The article documents a global travel craze with an eighty one day world voyage priced at 1145 gold, cites explorers and officials like Seward and Burlingame, notes rising cosmopolitanism, and comments on the widening reach of Western ideas and foreign travel across Europe Asia and America. It also praises Tuolumne Canyon discoveries by John Muir and Galen Clark as rivals to Yosemite for scenic grandeur.
The article describes Sir William Thomson's reflecting galvanometer enabling undersea telegraphy across vast distances and introduces his new patent siphon recorder. The device uses a light siphon ink flow controlled by an electro magnet and a rotating magnetic disk to etch dots and dashes representing letters, readable by telegraph clerks. It contrasts the early scribble with the recorder's promise of rapid distant message delivery. The piece then shifts to reflections on farming, citing Cicero, Homer, Cincinnatus, and Addison on the joys and civic role of agriculture and the enduring need for farmers amid trade and industry.
A historical method describes forming a running track by two parallel straight sides 600 feet apart connected by a semicircle with radius 2264 feet. It details placing a center stake midway between ends, running a wire to verify endpoints, and marking a goini circle with stakes every twelve feet from one end.
A broad cotton tax refund effort gains strength as a signed circular and papers from Curtis Hughes Sharkey Herschel Tomson and state memorials push Congress to declare the cotton tax unconstitutional and unjust. The pamphlet argues the tax burden fell on producers, not consumers, and seeks demolition of the tax through legislative action.
A country paper reports Rev. J Thomson delivering a large sermon before leaving for London. After prayer he drunkenly wandered up Harman Street, where boys tied a sea-kettle to his wit and disrupted the crowd with a chaotic, fragmented scene.
An African cooking method for dainty morsels like elephant and hippopotamus feet is described. A four foot deep ground oven with embers bakes the meat for about thirty six hours. The cook covers the hole with sticks, wet flags, mud, and sods to trap heat, then lifts the feet and removes the skin to reveal tender meat praised by tasters.
A wartime diary of finance and ethics in the Prussian War Office recounts Count von Moltke ordering a packet of fine snuff from Berlin to Versailles during 1870 72. An accountant highlights improper charges, arguing snuff is not a wartime expense, and the State insists on reimbursement after sixteen months of examination.
A fragmentary notice urges advertisers to attach cash when presenting aggressive rights claims. The text mentions Friday submission and references Liberal recept… hints, but many words are garbled, leaving ambiguity about the event or issuing authority.
Fragmentary report recalls Madan Nilsson visit and Illinois political remarks. Mentions Bishop Hare consecration in New York, Plymouth Church sale proceeds over 65000 dollars, and preliminary Pexag and Pacific Railroad survey San Diego to Fort Yuma. Reviews history of the Union Pacific, Rio Grande outrages damages, and Boston gambling raids with several arrests. Also cites public instruction plans in Japan, Congress members Blaine Hawes Cooper Kelly Randall Beofeld Garfield Eldridge, and General Myer. Notes ship and cargo counts, cable expansion to three quarters of the globe, and a glimpse of life expectancy and child mortality in London and among Jews and Christians.
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