25 Dec 1867
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Newspaper
Angelica Reporter
Location
Angelica, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1867
Page
1
The piece urges parents to keep children indoors and enjoy home life to prevent youths from seeking risky fun outside. It emphasizes a bright hearth, family activities, and avoiding gambling or degenerate dens. A moral, admonitory tone links home happiness with social safety.
Albert Wella, once agent for the Adine Expressa Company, is imprisoned in Salem awaiting trial for felony after a failed embezzlement. Described as educated and multilingual, he allegedly escaped jail by manipulating a female attendant then fled via railroad toward Flora before being recaptured. A cautionary tale on temptation for youth.
A fragment describes a mysterious subterranean stream feeding a spring near the Wyandotte area. It mentions the old home of William Henry Harrison and surrounding landmarks. locals visit Wilson’s Spring to glimpse the historic landscape and ponder the origins of the underground river.
Reports span a May Chicago wall growers exposition and Dr. Livingston still alive rumors. A temperance society forms in Chautauqua County while U.S. politics debate federally funded plans. Farther, Haiti declares war, a Fenian plot fails in London, and a Steuben County treasury break raises $8,000 in bonds.
The annual meeting in the village secretary’s office next Tuesday will elect officers and discuss fair judging. Members urged to support competent, unbiased judges and to attend the winter meeting to appoint the Executive Board.
A double blaze in Canandaigua destroyed Hatchell's Block on Main Street, hitting a variety store boot shop a photo gallery Western Union office music store law offices and an insurance and justice office with a large restaurant. Mrs Moré’s small dwelling on Gibson Street was saved though furniture suffered losses. Total losses around 40000 with stock largely insured.
The article notes a bleak outlook with manufactories closing in England and thousands of workers left idle before winter. It cites hopes for spring and summer work failing and bread riots rising in major cities, signaling growing economic distress and precarious livelihoods.
The Boston Advertiser prints a letter arguing how the national debt would fall per person if shared equally. It estimates a $60 per person share and annual interest at five percent amounts to four dollars and seventeen cents per day, highlighting political exaggeration.
The Steuben County case recounts Gilbert Carpenter of Camp bell town marrying Julia A Godley in Bath in 1864 after pretense and secrecy. He later denied the union while courting a widow and was indicted for bigamy. Julia gained the right to testify in 1867 and Carpenter faces a multi year prison term after a three day trial.
The column lists varied items including a constitutional convention adjournment to January 14, railway work near Ithaca and Towanda, a church project by the Roman Catholic Society in War, Lincoln debt notes, eight hour day at Corning foundries, Clifton Springs Air Care board tensions, a German cherry pitting machine, Baptist bell fundraising in Hornellsville, a Loire department prize won by a French girl, Napoleon drummer Joseph Sifford’s death in Dunkirk poor house, a near drowning of sheep at Grand Haven, a moral about following bad examples, Nashville Union mention of troop movements, peddlers selling cleaning paste for silver, a dancing party series at Mundy’s Canaseraga hotel, and a collision dispute for W S Coffin of Nonda over a train ticket with possible suit.
Farmers across New Jersey and nearby towns praise Rice & Hitchcock Horse-Hoe for ease of use, light weight, and superior weed pulverizing action. Testimonials cite reduced labor, minimal clogging, and strong draft, with growers like Abel Regu, Adam Atherton, and Ephraim Jiff endorsing its performance on corn, potatoes, hops, and stony ground.
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