06 Jul 1877
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1877
Page
1
This office announces its Job Printing department is equipped with the latest type and materials. All orders will be carried out with neatness and dispatch and the shop offers competitive prices and legal blanks in stock.
A surgeon in Buenos Ayres forces, while trapped with insurgents near a rebel camp, to aid a plan against General Fernido. He faces death by drowning after being bound for execution, escapes when a rope breaks, and returns to report the incident with a medal and gold.
In the Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, stands the Old Stove believed to be the world’s historic warming device. Made in England by Buzaglo and sent to Lord Botetourt in 1770, it warmed the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg until 1779, then heated Richmond’s legislative halls for sixty years, later warming the Capitol rotunda for forty more years before being laid aside as a Virginia relic.
At Queen's Birthday games in Cornwall world champion hammer thrower R R Mc Lennan attempted an exhibition. The hammer struck a 13 year old girl in the back of the head, killing her, as crowd scrambled to escape. Mc Lennan showed remorse and was cleared of blame.
A burglar entering Miss Kuba's store on North Summer Street was seized by two officers after being pursued by a mob. The crowd overpowered the officers and hanged the captured man from a rope over North Summer Street. Dr. Haggard heard a splash as the thief met death in the Cumberland River.
The Pittsburgh Leader essays the term good fellow as a hollow ideal. It describes him as agreeable, noncommittal, always sociable, never improving the world, and essentially a nonentity who avoids conflict but never acts with substance.
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