22 Jan 1879
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1879
Page
1
An old verse scene shows a lovelorn heir wooing Louise with fervent vows. The knight pledges eternal love and declares a forthcoming marriage as he offers to lead her to the chapel that night. Eugene Fields.
In a Babbleton tale Mollie Muldoon seeks a grand match with Dolph Dacre while poverty shadows their romance. A devastating flood tests plans for Mollie and Dolph as Mollie endures hardship and a late, hopeful reunion at home with Dolph amid ruined wedding finery.
A fragment from a New York piece discusses the city’s fast pace and harsh conditions. It describes bankers and merchants, a prominent church leader, and the toll of sleepless nights, poor nutrition, and premature aging on residents and professionals.
In Oaktown Indiana a gang planned a raid after a Bloomfield warning. Armed citizens stopped them with gunfire at a saloon. Three burglars were hit. one died within twenty minutes. A pursuing officer narrowly avoided a fatal shot as the struggle continued.
A jumble of odd 19th century notices describes a paralytic episode at a dinner, a wife's funeral, and a burial, along with a New York tailor who burned a tramp and a St Louis beau and belle's Belleville ride. A three foot long sleigh ride and a snowballing dismissal conclude the fragment.
Gabriel Cloutier, a devout elder in Nouveau Monde Montreal, chastised his two grown daughters for intemperance. The daughters fought back, one biting his third finger. The next day he pursued a police warrant, only to learn the offender at the factory had just lost her own right hand finger to a machine, leading the old man to declare divine punishment.
Alvin Harrison age seventy three, once a promising young Ohio lawyer who campaigned for Tippecanoe, later studied medicine and lived alone in a Neosho bottoms cabin after a doomed elopement. He died near Oswego Kansas, leaving a morose hermit’s last years.
Discussion in New York papers centers on Cyrus Field's plan to erect a memorial stone at the Major Andre execution site with an inscription by Dean Stanley. A draft inscription is shared to provoke others to weigh in on the monument idea and wording.
Four Simpsonville men visited a house on Todd's Point to court girls. After departing they returned and moved a garden shed to the front door. The old man, armed with a shotgun after dawn, lined up the youths and forced them to return the shed to its original spot with witnesses present. One youth found his photographed gift prominently displayed as further humiliation.
A midwestern rural world column covers propagation of white or transparent blackberries from roots, labeling practices for orchards, and choosing durable labels. It includes advice on cuttings, root division, and marking varieties, plus miscellaneous curiosities about agriculture and daily life.
The Detroit newspaper reports a global merchant fleet setback for 1878 with a drop of 581,058 tons in total tonnage despite increased activity in certain sectors. British-flagged ships lead in numbers and tonnage, while the United States trails far behind with about 6,050 vessels totaling 2,075,883 tons.
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