01 Jan 1879
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1879
Page
1
Poem fragment by S C Stone from Yule Area describes snowflakes as lively, varied figures moving through a wintry landscape. It portrays groups riding winds, gliding, dancing, and drifting toward a distant sea with personified moods and purposeful behavior.
Agnes Rushton tells how her letter from aunt Ruth Rashton seals her fate at the Pines estate. She battles envy, love with Hugh Aubrey, and a cold heiress aunt, ending with a marriage and inheritance reversal that exposes family pride and hidden affection.
The article catalogs world city populations by latest estimates, led by London at about 8.54 million, Paris around 1.85 million, with Pekin and Canton near 1.0 million, and New York over 1.06 million. It then ranks other 500k to 1,000k cities, noting Berlin, Philadelphia, Tokio, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Osaka, Glasgow, and more, followed by a long miscellany of figures and notes.
A historical note details Foster Powell born 1784 English walker famed for Bath road records. It recalls 50 miles in seven hours, London York 400 miles in five days twenty hours, 100 miles in 24 hours, and York London 400 miles record plus swift mile and run feats. Powell height five feet ten inches, lean frame, slept five hours nightly, died April 9, 179?
The piece notes urban street car networks globally and continued horse exports from the United States to Europe. Richmond registers report 1,897,205 alcoholic and 3,098,528 malt drinks sold in fifteen months, total tax $55,650. Sugar samples in Richmond show only three of nine safe from mineral salts. A Liverpool firm bought a steamer to import live pigs from America, with capacity over 2,000 pigs and battle aboard.
King Louis of Bavaria campaigns for a grand Herrenworth residence on Chiemsee with a projected cost of eight million dollars. The project aims to create Germanys most sumptuous royal home amid lake scenery and historic grandeur.
A Wright County note describes a so called walled lake twelve miles north of the Dubuque and Pacific line and 150 miles west of Dubuque city. The lake sits two to three feet above ground with a wall ranging from ten to fifteen feet high at the base and widening toward the top. Reports claim weight and measurements vary across the site.
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