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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1887
Page
2
A famed millionaire entertains himself at a New Port casino by freezing champagne and forcing a waiter, Thomas, to endure a chilling dunk as wagers and bets drive the scene. The crowd, diverse in attire, watches the icy ordeal aboard a sultry midnight, with the millionaire eventually declaring it not slow after all.
A St. Louis Globe Democrat recounts a northern Illinois duck hunt to Minnesota in 1860. Abe Truax, famed for boasting, claimed on the steamer Lake Pepin he bagged 200 ducks in a single fall morning, then joked at the bar that it was a whopper. The tale helped coin the era’s Americanism about duck hunting. Another anecdote features Senator Joe Blackburn and a duel framed by a sunrise to sunset day, ending with darkness and a halted conflict.
A Maine eccentric capitalist, Peter Leroyer, returns from France with a fortune of $30,000 and lives forty miles from others in Mooseheard Lake wilderness. He shares a primitive life with a moose, has pledged the moose for $800, then redeemed it, and spends nights among pines with a new buckskin shirt. The piece also cites a New York farm boy who lifts a family from debt through relentless labor, and ends with a Highland chief forgiving enemies, warning his son about the Ta vist name.
It is shown that platinum wire can be drawn so fine as to be invisible to the naked eye on a perfectly white card. The wire can be felt by touch and seen with a magnifying glass when the card is held to cast a shadow, revealing its presence.
Senator Joe Blackburn plans time in New York after Congress adjourns seeking convenient opportunities to discuss his views on reform. He jokes about rustic roots and study of dressing, recounting a Kentucky bedfellow who mistook his shirt button for its purpose and how New York refined him more than any place.
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