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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1893
Page
3
Senator Abram Duryea details the Astor Place riot in New York when soldiers faced a hostile mob. He describes lack of blank cartridges, the regiment's dispersal orders, and heavy casualties with 134 killed, 100 plus wounded, and 32 weapons broken. credits the soldiers with quelling the mob.
The article discusses eye memory or eidetic imagery and how staring at a bright object then closing the eyes can produce lasting images. It cites Memory Thompson, once famed for detailed London street panoramas, and notes proposals to train this faculty in schools by showing objects briefly and asking pupils to reproduce them.
In northern India sheep serve as burden carriers on steep Himalayan paths. Each sheep bears sixteen to twenty pounds of grain in a small bag sewn to its back while being driven from village to village. wool is shorn locally to sell in town, and the flock returns homeward with the loaded grain.
An old advertisement touts Nostecter’s Stomach Bitters as a tonic for kidneys and bladder, claiming it stimulates function, removes impurities, and prevents diseases like rheumatism and dropsy. It promises relief from stomach, liver, bowels, and nervous disorders and warns inaction harms health.
A New York produce house partner returned from a Southern trip to a boisterous reception from brokers. His surprise grew from questions about the trip and the joyous mood. He found a misread telegram that changed “Successful tank cars” to “Coming home successfully in tank cars.” Rick Headache relieved by Small Bile Beans. GOES without saying A mute.
The passage recalls a ship's peril with words of doom and mourning. Descriptions of wounds, hollow spaces, and a nameless void convey a disaster at sea. Strong images of anger fever fire and waves mark the toll on sailors and families as readers lament lives lost.
In June a bride recalls a string of misfortunes that nearly collapsed plans for a church ceremony and a year in a Pennsylvanian mining town. After securing a trusted servant Mary, a break in theft and violence unfolds as the couple returns home to find her tied and gagged in the kitchen.
In a Detroit home, a trusted maid Mary colludes with an accomplice to steal silver, clothes, and linens. The couple later learns Mary herself staged the crime, using a self-bound rope and gag ruse to portray a victim, while the real thieves melt and hide the stolen silver. The family, aided by a constable, arrests reveal a wider kin network as the town’s bad lot.
The article describes how British India restricts poppy farming to licensed plots with government advances. It explains cultivation methods, from planting to harvesting opium, and notes strict supervision deters illegal expansion. It also includes a vignette about a colonial governor and a Boston anecdote.
A fragmentary dialogue features Old Soak claiming delirium tremens dates to the world’s origin and Eve seeing snakes, while Jagzys questions the assertion. The text pivots to a remark on undertakers and melancholy, noting they “bury themselves in the business.”
A Milwaukee financier aimed to corner the lard market by buying all available supply and holding it to spike prices. He amassed funds in Chicago and Milwaukee, bought options to cover the entire supply, and watched prices soar before the scheme collapsed as supply overwhelmed demand, leaving him millions in debt as lard values plunged.
The piece describes Smith's Island Bald Head near Fort Caswell as subtropical with a long live oak forest and palm growth. A Chicago buyer plans a hotel on the four by three mile island with a Confederate earthwork and lighthouse, while legends of buried gold and frequent wrecks add intrigue.
In England a town's Board of Guardians resisted women joining due to accounting concerns. A voting poor woman won a seat, reviewed ledgers, found a $25 soup tureen charge, and questioned it. She exposed alleged systematic robbery by those serving the board amid patrons' ignorance of value. Foraker is likened to a medical student. life is short.
A crowd on a train suspends a slender heavy moustached man as a supposed criminal Miles Gashwell. An old man claims the passenger hides crime behind a disguise and announces he will unveil proofs once the train stops at the crossing. The wanders off before confrontation as the crowd reacts to the staged unmasking.
A Quaker shopkeeper confronts a Quaker customer Mary about prices and alleged trade with outsiders. The buyer asserts she purchased items at his shop and points to an amount she says she owes, challenging the shopkeeper’s suspicions and pricing.
The Dutch founded city of Lubeck in 1140 and it passed to Saxony eighteen years later. By 1201 the Danes seized it, and in 1226 it became a free imperial city after expelling a Danish garrison. It led the Hanseatic league from 1241 and endured Blucher refuge during Napoleon’s 1806 siege.
A German newcomer describes amusing first experiences in America. She recounts cultural mix ups, notably that her embroidered sheets were too large for beds and too large for towels, turning them into admired handkerchiefs.
The water spider lives mostly underwater and carries an air bubble for breathing beneath its body. When the air runs low it surfaces for more. Tiny hairs on the underside trap the air by preventing the water film from passing, imprisoning the air among the hairs.
A liquid remedy Hall's Catarah Cure is taken internally and acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. Send for testimonials free. Price 75 cents. Sold by druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
In the Conservatory, She-What asks what has become of Dolly Hybrid's partner while he is spotted in the supper room. The club note hints the inner man is sought as the outer woman seems forgotten. Doseins' Perfect Soap retails for 5e, praised for purity and quality, unmatched by Sc. soaps. grocers stock it.
A humorous exchange discusses straw management with warnings about overhanging stalks and dangers to pigs or calves. It suggests cutting down excess straw for feeding or bedding and promotes selling straw as a practical option. The dialogue includes light banter about suburban loneliness and a joke about “She whom must be obeyed.”
The Boston Transcript notes a bicycle boom reviving roadside inns and summer cafes near Boston. Wheelmen frequent country roads and beaches, buying ice cream chowder coffee and cakes from open platforms while chatting with friendly waiter girls before riding on.
A report describes using compressed gun cotton cakes tied around large tree trunks to fell them instantly via explosion. Montana Idaho and Washington loggers call it cheapest and most efficient, noting only trained personnel with proper electrical gear should attempt it. Byron anecdote follows as a literary aside about a man of letters preferring his untidy den.
A farmer in a pawnshop expresses surprise at the diversity of offers. Dreiballstein asks how much is requested, prompting a witty exchange as Kate Field’s Washington highlights daring luck and boldness.
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