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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1885
Page
3
A long, garbled collection of seafood and meat soup methods. It describes simmering email style instructions for broths, with crabs, codfish, oysters, beef gumbo, and calf head, including seasonings, vegetables, and thickening steps. The text mentions thyme and marjoram, and suggests serving with eggs or lemon juice.
Enfield Lane of Tioga County returns to Elwira New York after a two week hunt in Frontenac County Canada. Thomas DeWitt and George Pearson, two Hudson River County men, hide from a wounded bear and cubs as they struggle with the beast. DeWitt fights the bear off with a lattice and blade while Pearson aids.
Forsyth and Smith, two men trapped by a blizzard near Dotsero, endured three days of cold and raw venison after their deer hunt. Smith froze to death while Forsyth survived with a torn hand and frozen feet. A note found in Smith's clenched fist read I cannot live another night and I want you to have everything.
A collection of statistical curiosities including oyster reproduction, global cotton output by country, California fruit and canning trade, ocean depths near Newfoundland, Louisiana farm land and crop figures, Southern manufacturing investment, and notes on vocabulary use by educated readers and Shakespeare.
An eyewitness rail tale recalls a night when a freight train blocked a crossing and an engineer avoided disaster. The brakes man, a humble railroader, acted quickly to save lives and property as the cars and buffer perilously coughed under pressure.
The editor of Pell Mall Gazette prints a migration-era account alleging Turkish savagery in Macedonia during July, detailing a sequence of brutal killings and mutilations in Velesse, Bitolia, Podies, Nogilovo, and nearby villages. The piece blames European intervention and Berlin Treaty provisions for worsening tensions, calls for Ottoman compliance, and condemns England for opposing autonomy.
Statistics from a London directory indicate London with 550000 dwellings and 122 square miles of streets and squares. Daily city entries reach 160000, 123 new residents join the population, and about 28 miles of new streets are laid out yearly with 9000 houses erected.
A jumble of humorous snippets unfolds with misheard phrases and clever quips. A groom’s question about “the damage” prompts a joke about paint theft while a dog’s pants become fodder for chatter. A world of comic misstatements, rural slang, and social curiosities plays out in quick phrases.
A speculative piece magnifies John D. Vanderbilt's wealth as $200,000,000 in gold and securities. It converts the total into a literal gold pyramid, estimates freight-car needs, coin circumference, and workforce to handle the value, and imagines vast social influence and military power.
A boy delivered a box to the American Tract Society on Nassau Street in New York, believed intended to kill Anthony Comstock. The improvised infernal machine contained a spring, matches, glass, powder, and nitric acid. Comstock took the box and boy to the police after inspecting the item.
An account from Longman’s Magazine recounts a high altitude balloon ascent over London. The crew endures freezing cold, snow, and near-zero winds while the city recedes to a chessboard glow as stars brighten and the cratered night unfolds and finally the car descends quietly to dawn.
Mrs Schelling recounts her near fatal encounter at an old ruin above the Hadeon River and the dramatic blood transfusion by Ernest Schelling that saved her life. She describes how the life saving act forged an enduring bond and explains the now unalterable vows that followed.
The Griff Hall murder tale recounts the 1824 stabbing of Edward Strongtharin by intruders at Griff Hall near Settle York, the suspected culprits fleeing after a staged visit by lawyers Lovett and Shotwell and a young heir Charles Strongtharin. Detectives traced a returning carriage and the trio's flight to Castleton, leading to arrests and swift executions in 1826. The case ties to Eveline Strongtharin and a raid on Griff Hall’s jewels including a griffin gem set.
A special dispatch reports severe quake damage in Antiquera Andalusia where seven churches fell and many buildings collapsed. Crowds filled public squares during Christmas day fearing aftershocks with hundreds camped outside, while injuries and property losses mounted.
The article discusses M. Elisee Reclus’ theory that a Saharan sea once covered the desert and considers the possible climate effects of flooding the Sahara again. It questions whether creating a new African sea could cool France and perhaps England, offsetting French gains in Africa.
During extreme cold snaps cellars near freezing can threaten stored vegetables and stoves. A cheap method is to place one or more kerosene lamps on the cellar floor to retain heat, since lamp heat stays in the living space and can be enough to prevent frost when fires are limited.
A fragmentary dialogue mentions a turkey, a gob, and a tale of a golden egg. The exchange touches on hens and their eggs with playful questions about teeth and shells.
A dialogue shows a child and mother examining a department store window. The figures include stuffed seals and bears posed to appear alive, with dressed fur mannequins nearby. The mother explains the scene as a display of new fur styles, not living animals.
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