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Newspaper
Belleville Republic
Location
Belleville, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1876
Page
4
A scattered set of quirky items and short notes, mentioning a banter over boiled eggs, a surgeon’s opinion on horse flesh as human food, a Siamese twin daughter’s marriage, sleep-giving drugs, bankrupt statistics among farmers, and curious archival anecdotes. Includes military gear, a coroner’s query, and comments on pest damage and agricultural remedies.
A New York correspondent recalls tales about Bret Harte and California legends. Anecdotes recount clashes of giants and valleys, gunmen in Rawlins, and Horace Greeley meeting a Forty-niner, illustrating rough frontier wit and terrain lore without graphic detail.
A garbled account from a country town interview describes neighbors and a man named Smith, with uncertain actions and unclear tasks. The text includes informal chatter about work, suspicion, and a potential resignation, mentioning places and people in a rough dialogue.
An Ingeniens Contrivance behind the pay-car on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad is described as a useful aid for officers on inspection tours. A 700 foot roll of white paper winds around a cylinder and is paid out at three feet per mile, with movement controlled by the near apparatus attached to the device.
The inspector shows a pendulum like a clock’s endulum moving with the train to reveal uneven rails. When a defective point is reached the pendulum hits circular metal on both sides, producing a bell like sound. The invention is said to outperform earlier telegraph systems.
The article condemns dragging horses to mask poor condition, warns owners and dealers to avoid unproven spring tonics, and urges inspections to remove dangerous powders. It highlights dangers from tartar emetic, Spanish flies, zinc salts, and lead compounds, urging veterinary oversight and cruelty prevention actions.
A Vermont court holds lager beer not intoxicating under state law after a saloon seizure. Evidence included physicians testifying on alcohol content and effects. defense questioned witness credibility. verdict favors beer owner, pending possible appeal, per the New York Sun report.
G. H. Parton alias Wilson, a sewing-machine agent with multiple wives and aliases, was arrested in Shelbyville by Capt. William Surls after traveling from Nashville. He has swindled victims across Arkansas Missouri and Tennessee, totaling about 8 000, and faces potential 20 year sentence for bigamy and theft as authorities seek further charges.
The Joseph Gazette of Missouri reports Mr. W. W. Turner’s hen weighs fourteen pounds and, at age one, laid four eggs in a day then produced an egg within an egg with an inner hard shell like a guinea egg. The marvel continues as she may hatch many chicks without laying first. Also included is a Custard Puppine recipe using cream and eggs.
A collection of kitchen instructions detailing bread and pastry methods with step by step actions. Recipes include Loar and Ryr Breap breads with yeast, SyL LtaBus cream wine dessert, Pupvinc porridge, Coprisa fish chowder, and an Omelette technique with seeding bread milk base.
The Lewiston Journal reprints a private letter from Rev. Evgeleth describing a man-eating tiger near Mone in Shwaygyeen District Burmah. The beast, about 17 feet long, killed nine people and evaded villagers, with dramatic incidents of a white English chief of police and a fatal assault on a child and its father. A bount y of $150 remains for the head. Also promotion for Schenck’s Pulmonary Syrup and related tonics, claimed safe and opium-free for consumption.
The Aberdeen Miss Stammer reports a child of C M Jones bitten by a highland moccasin and cured by external kerosene oil. A cottonmouth bite nearly fatal improved instantly with oil and the patient recovered within hours. Shall enberger’s Pills advertised as cheap ague remedy at one dollar.
An old medical note endorses Dr Turt's Pills as a safe family medicine that replaces calomel blisters and starvation with a vegetable formula. It claims no diet or occupation changes are needed and presents the remedy as a modern improvement.
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