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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1879
Page
4
A New Orleans business letter urges Providence to form a Citizens' Health Corps to keep yellow fever out. It stresses decisive action to clean streets and remove nuisances, aiming to make New Orleans a healthier city.
The experiment of homes for inebriates will be tried in England under an act of Parliament. Inebriates may decide whether to enter the treatment, but once they have signified their wish to be confined to a justice of the peace, they lose their liberty and must stay for the agreed period and follow all establishment rules.
Commissioner Mr. McCormick, speaking for the late Paris Exhibition, endorses a New York World’s fair in 1883 with timing at 1486 to allow invention progress. He backs Port Morris over Central Park, citing vast unoccupied space and deep water frontage to ease freight costs and accommodate large crowds.
Philadelphia Times correspondent finds John A Sutter, the California gold discoverer, aged and poverty stricken in Luiz Pennsylvania. Sutter recounts his 1839 voyage to California, Mexican agent status, vast land, and loss to miners. A Chicago Times note adds Arizona’s first finder Barardo Treyes, once rich, ruined after a $60,000 yield and theft by companions.
An early 20th century voice critiques grand schemes to drain or flood deserts from the Gulf of California toward the Colorado and Sahara. It notes fears of tectonic upheaval if vast water masses are introduced to parched regions. French engineers are also studying Sahara irrigation by sea ingress.
John J Andrews, a Philadelphia merchant, endured twenty years of partial sight loss in one eye and excruciating pain. A local physician finally diagnosed a live cysticerci embryo tapeworm inside the eye after extensive tests and explorations, then removed it with an operation.
Alphonse Daudet recounts M. Villemessant’s brutal dismissal of writers at the Paris Figaro. He describes how the editor privately berates Paul d Ivoy and ejects him, literally tossing editorials out the window, a fearsome method that chilled onlookers.
An OCR fragment shows two characters planning violent acts against named individuals, with one briskly agreeing to perform dissections and dismemberment. The text hints at a crime scenario involving Mr Williamson Mr Smith Mrs Murphy and John, reflecting a vivid historical voice in a butcher setting.
Edward P. Livingstone of Yale College loses to Warren N. Goddard of rd College in a Lake Quinsi race to decide the champion scullers. The piece notes broader news items including Woodruff Expedition delays, financial failures, fires, and various political and international updates.
Ir Lewis fe Sayre of New York was elected president of the American Medical Association in Atlanta. Burglary and murder trials unfold across North and South with hangings in Fayetteville and Hillsboro, and Chicago fire destroys Fullerton’s planing mills amid large losses. A Mississippi River skiff wreck, a fatal fall in Baltimore, and a Farmersville fire in Louisiana accompany a breadth of trials, monuments, and legal rulings.
Senate floor action includes a pension bill amendment and penalties for voting irregularities, a substitute bill on contagious diseases, and speeches by Chandler and others. Legislation advances on legislative appropriations, juror reform, and coinage exchange while funds and levee projects are discussed amid party lines.
House discussions covered test oaths and electoral supervision, Treasury actions to pay arrearages, and a request to address Franco‑American treaty relations. Debates addressed legal tender and coinage, with votes on silver measures, pensions, and public funds. A veto message and military interference bill vote concluded the session, alongside notices on post office funding and other bills.
A Laurensville Herald remark claims bruised horseradish applied to the wrist provides instant relief for neuralgia and toothache. The method, described as simple and cheap, reportedly helped a family member during severe neuralgia attacks and has been used successfully multiple times.
In Calcutta two tigers escaped a menagerie enclosure. One was killed. the other roamed the Botanic Garden killing guards and livestock. Riflemen shot the tiger after tying an ox to a tree and manning a roof ambush. A nearby note reports Seth Green receiving mud minnows from Byron Ohio.
Market activity dominates the page with figures and codes. Investor mood shifts as bonds equities and commodities move in narrow ranges amid mixed earnings data.
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