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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1885
Page
3
A surreal 1664 style scene unfolds as travelers approach heaven. Charon, St Peter, and a stranger exchange formalities while an orchestra tuner and notes line the gate. The narrator recalls elegant rooms, a cryptic card, and a comic register at the heavenly entrance.
In Leon County Florida two Black men Ananias Pickett and Jerusalem Ju Johnson live on opposite sides of Possum Branch, vying for Sophy Giggles a beauty who has worked in Tallahassee. A planned pistol duel is staged by a cunning white narrator who orchestrates a showdown. Ju flees, Sophy later marries Ananias as the narrator records the community’s bizarre melodrama.
The piece surveys the long tangled history of Delaware’s exclusive river privileges tied to the Penn grant and New Jersey’s 1663 64 deeds. It recounts Penn’s grants, royal approvals, conflicts with Delaware settlers, and enduring questions of jurisdiction over the Delaware River and its twelve mile boundary near Newcastle.
A 260 pound stump fragment blown from the ground with great force near Tacoma, Washington, struck observer Frazier from 420 feet away. It tore his clothes, left his feet bare, crushed bones in both feet, and left him paralyzed for twenty minutes. Brazien, 60, survived with partial crippling, no long term injury expected.
A new monster bakery in Moscow plans to lower bread prices by about five percent once operational. The venture is led by a company with 400,000 roubles capital, shares of 1,000 roubles, and projected costs of 250,000 roubles for buildings and equipment. Daily output is 65,000 kilos of rye and wheat breads, delivered to forty depots via five ovens.
An OCR fragment reports Ava Ri and Snead Ad in a grim scene at a graveyard. The text is garbled but suggests a death or memorial context. Other fragments mention a bear, Elling, and an old person, with unclear relation to the main event.
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