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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1879
Page
2
The Branford Gleaner weekly edition notes its office will be temporarily relocated to the residence of P. Hopson on Main Street as the Branford Gleaner Co. continues publication from Branford, Connecticut.
Mrs Cobb and Wesley Bishop met in the Norwich jail to press Mrs Cobb for a confession but she refused to admit or recognize him. Bishop accused her of guilt while she denied it. Rev Hugh Montgomery and Mr Thresher, along with jailor Mr Beckwith, attended. If guilty she avoids ownership.
Letters to the Gleaner recount Branfords western families Ford Rose Potter and others with aims to preserve forgotten lore. A new enterprise describes Todd’s Bridge area dam and Bradleys mill project with French burr stones and an overshot wheel. Captain James Sleight, famed Belvidere master, dies in Harlem after long seafaring career.
A vignette depicts Little Bopeep searching a pastoral world for missing sheep while interacting with talking plants and animals. Mosquitoes threaten the girl as she frets over her flock near Farmer Crump's fence, before nightfall restores the quiet scene on the meadow.
The readable text references a chaotic scene with various poultry terms from bantams to Cochins and mentions threats and uproar. Details are sparse, with phrases about a fall and a chorus of agitation, but concrete events or participants are unclear.
The Methodist church minister Reverend Dixon, nearing the end of his second year in ministry, receives donations and numerous testimonials of esteem from the community. Farmers' Club holds its first regular meeting discussing manure plowing, creep culture, and seed rotation in an informal exchange.
Patrick Flynn reports twenty two inches of frost in the ground while 698 Central district students enroll, up forty five from last year. Central school began last Monday. Pho nix lodge No 28 LO GT has twenty four members and emphasizes temperance. Rev Charles N Sims of Brooklyn will lecture February 10 in Town Hall on The Philosophy of Failures. A dog chases a train near Lewis's store as a woman retrieves a ruined train. Business is strong with full-time shops and factories and a bright 1879 outlook.
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