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Newspaper

Branford Gleaner

Location

Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Nov 12, 1879

Page

4

Indian Rebel Vasques Executed After War Council

The article recounts the execution of Calista Vasques after a court martial for leading banditry and mass crimes in San Maria, Marcala, and La Paz. It details assaults, killings, arson, robberies, and invasions, plus Vasques’s confessions and name dropping of supporters. His wife and three children receive government pensions and education funding.

Panama Sar and Herald Honduras Calista Vasques la Pas Pueblo of San Maria Silvestre Lorenzo Louis Cabrera Segundo Alar Luciano Mancilia Marcala Antonio Escoto Assassina Irene Molina Pedro Carrillo Col Cinda Real Maria Santa 5 Lindero Don Jose Maria Bonilla Cuartel la Paz Don Monico Caceres

Tea Tapers

The New York Herald reports on The tea drinkers' disorder among tea tasters. It notes daily mouthfuls of tea infusions for tasters and links excessive tea use to nervous debility, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, and digestive trouble, contrasting with coffee and wine concerns. The piece questions safe beverages and cites typhoid and dyspepsia warnings.

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Alaska Ice Beauties in Fort Wrangel Glacial Vista

A San Francisco Bulletin writer extols Alaska glaciers near Fort Wrangel. Standing at the fiord mouth, he describes pale milky water, a bluish white ice wall five to six hundred feet high, and granite promontories with yellow green chaparral. The scene resembles a Yosemite valley in formation with ornate ice sculpting, crevasses, and towering spires, as the glacier fills the landscape and shapes the mountain walls through time.

San Francisco Bulletin Fort Wrangel Alaska Fiord Yosemite Valley

One Ton of Gold Coins Valued at Over Half a Million Dollars

A shipment of one ton of American gold coins is valued at $534,523. The treasure reportedly remains unclaimed as authorities note the substantial value of the coins and potential markets for sale.

Norla Paris Schieffelin & Co N.X Cakick Sage Gcbasti Warner Bros Broadway Grant Natival Penitsaing Co Philadelphia

Deaths and disasters span Hooker to mine tragedy

Notes tell of Major-General Joseph Hooker’s death in Garden City New York and a deadly Mill Creek colliery explosion near Scranton. Additional items cover counterfeiting prisoners escaping Ludlow Street Jail five prisoners killed in a sugar-house boiler blast at Lafour, and election results across several states.

Joseph Hooker Garden City Long Island Genten West Point Envi Farming California En Genet Joe Hooker Hooker Mill Creek Scranton Rupp Kenny Forcey Zach Thomas D. Jenkins Ludlow Street New York Albany Penitentiary Liberty Cape Elizabeth Middle States Cornell New Jersey Connecticut Pennsylvania Butler Massachusetts Long Menars Gilbert Arthur Sullivan Erie Crossing Attica N. Y B. F. Gray General Hooker New York City Hall Hhursh Cincinnati Matthew Hale Smith Brooklyn John F. Haws Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Bank of New York Belgium Canada United States Zachariah Chandler Michigan Chicago Wisconsin Grand Pacific Hotel Logan Detroit Chandler New Benford N. H Lewis Cass Cass Buchanan United States Senate Senate I. P. Christiancy Washington Interior Grant Republican National Committee General Grant Galesburg Ill Stettaver Brothers & Co New Orleans Liverpool Texas Fa Luling la Alfred N. Robinson Clermont County Ohio Miamiville Maryland Mississippi Virginia Minnesota Nebraska Ilinois Blaine Chandlers

National Thanksgiving Proclamation by President Hayes

President Hayes proclaims Thursday November 27 as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer urging citizens to gather in worship and give thanks to Almighty God for mercies. The proclamation, dated November 3, 1879, notes the 104th year of U.S. independence and bears seal and signatures of the president and secretary of state.

Ratharicr B. Hayes United States Washington

Farmer Ant City of Texas Described in Ant Recounts

The piece reports on the Pogo no myr mex Barbatus known as the farmer ant of Texas. An 18 thumb nail sized giant ant is noted with a city underground including streets houses and halls. Queens attend to children while drones loaf and workers clear farms defend the colony and store seeds for winter.

P. B Texas H. C. McCook Philadelphia Times

Words of Wisdom and Practical Advertisements Blend

A mixed column quotes cautions on enmity and time while urging self improvement. It promotes Health and beauty tips, constipation relief, and a blockaded waste system remedy. Also advertised are H W Johns asbestos products, Mason and Hamlin organs, Dr Hall's Balsam, telegraphy training, Brown's Bronchial Troches, and Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

Hostetter H. W. Johns Maiden Lane N. Y Hall Mason & Hamlin H. W. Johns Manufacturing Company New York

Truth and Honor Advocates Hop Bitters as Universal Remedy

A terse Victorian era notice extols Hop Bitters as an ideal family medicine to regulate bowels purify the blood relieve costiveness and iliousness aid digestion and tone the whole system. The unsigned editorial credits the claim to the Inde pendent.

Truth and Honor

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