13 May 1880
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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1880
Page
1
A sweeping recap notes attacks on Jewish communities in Moravia, vast Afghan war costs, Ex-Governor Kalloch scandals, railroad leadership changes, fires in Bradford and Jacksonville, and political conventions across states. Highlights include=C\ ecurity concerns in St Petersburg and Delhi, floods of stock deals, and legal shifts in Georgia and California.
A veteran draft horse, once used to pull a dirt- lifting sweep, lives out at a pasture for years. Each morning he circles, a fixed habit from long work, prompting onlookers to reflect on how youth habits shape aging. The piece rails against scientific analysis dulling poetry, lamenting tears reduced to chemicals.
A method to cut an orange by two rind cuts around the fruit as if it were a globe with poles. The rind is peeled from the ends to preserve the torrid zone and a cross cut over a division line opens the sections while keeping the pulp attached to rind. Peres Apams, a 110 year old Black man, died in Houston County Texas last week.
The article presents a detailed May 1880 public debt statement with figures for six percent bonds, five percent bonds, four and a half, four percent bonds, refunding certificates, naval pension funds, and total coin bonds. It includes matured debt, legal tenders, certificates of deposit, fractional currency, and totals both with and without interest, plus notes on cash in treasury and debt changes. It also covers coinage totals for April, currency outstanding, receipts from customs and internal revenue, and the President’s veto message on the Deficiency Appropriation bill with arguments about elections laws and executive discretion.
The excerpt notes iron and tools were costly and hindered medieval husbandry. Iron implements priced around 2d per pound limited soil cultivation, while cast iron advanced with Queen Elizabeth era weapons production. Prices rose from £5-£8 per ton in the fifteenth century to £10-£14 later, affecting industry and agriculture.
Prof. Fournier discusses baldness in a lecture on alopecia, arguing there is nothing ridiculous or malformed about it. He says it confers upon the physiognomy an expression of wisdom experience and venerability and that it adapts itselfmar- to the face.
Fragmentary text notes a sculpture approach by a writer or critic, contrasting heads shaped by wigs with the severe beauty of classic sculpture and Zechariah imagery. The fragment hints at a discussion of aesthetic ideals and historical references within sculpture.
A Roumeha farmer marries a young gypsy girl despite warnings from her tribe. On their wedding night gypsy youths bind him to a plank and strangle his wife before fleeing. The tribe left town, and authorities have not yet apprehended the perpetrators.
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