13 Nov 1872
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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1872
Page
1
A reader describes a brutal procession of beggars marching through Aktalon with hats, coats, and tools, each displaying varied garb and tactics to provoke sympathy and cash. The piece catalogs doglike persistence, stagey pleas, and the crowd’s mixed reactions as pockets of aid rise and fall.
A dramatic tale portrays a chemist as detective and potential savior of a man accused of murder. The plot centers on a stomach analysis for poison, a staged murder attempt with nitroglycerine, a brave boy, and a desperate plan by a brother to save the prisoner Joe Johnson, ending with a dramatic rescue and a hanging.
A Union sergeant walks from a Petersburg rifle pit to trade with a rebel officer for news and coffee, trading a paper for unsafe exchange. The piece then shifts through assorted vignettes on home life, elegance versus domestic love, a Wisconsin race on foot, industry notes, and temperance observations with historical figures and locales.
The Danbury News column compiles a miscellany of humorous verses, kitchen quips, and odd anecdotes. It cites Lobster defences, Bedouin teeth, a Mary Walker lecture quip, jokes about cows and gal t, a cat trick with molasses, and W Froude England’s wave-measuring device. The fragmentary items showcase 19th century humor and curiosities.
A New York correspondent recounts a Lucca representation of Zerline in Fra Diavalo, detailing a heroine disrobing before her mirror. An elderly plain countryman and his wife attend, the man shocked by the stage nudity while others react with mixed consternation. The account notes the audience's moral tension and the newcomer's unfamiliarity with opera.
Washington notes recount Miss Hattie Risley, sister of Risley Seward, adopted daughter of the late statesman. The piece recalls Seward’s role, Fannie Seward’s bravery against Payne, and the family’s bond, plus a lively Ashington correspondence. It also notes Paris gossip about a Paris case of a hairdresser and a violet dye mishap.
The article describes Sir William Thomson's mirror galvanometer used in Atlantic cable experiments. A minute mirror on a magnetic needle reflects light to indicate current resistance. Experiments involved four thousand miles of circuit with a tiny silver thimble battery, revealing remarkable efficiency in a small room.
A child recounts catching a spider named Oruosos and building a water island to play with it. The arachnid tests a mast, then ventures across a makeshift rope bridge, using air drafts from the fire to reach shore, before returning to the woodshed as the author notes in Hearth and Home.
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