17 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1879
Page
1
A nostalgic poem recalling childhood scavenges for four leaf clovers and the belief in luck. The speaker contrasts past carefree springs with later life, urging to hold fast to simple joys and memories as Ima and Emeline Sherman Smith.
Louis Berthold hoeing potatoes hears Uncle Jean recount a sea voyage and a daring escape from English captivity. Jean, once a sailor and captain, tells of bravery, an escape plan, Brissac’s sacrifice, and royal gratitude, ending with Louis declaring him the greatest man alive.
An English newspaper credits American genius with at least fifteen inventions and discoveries now world widely adopted. It lists the cotton gin, planing machine, grass mower and grain reaper, rotary printing press, steam navigation, caloric engine, sewing machine, India rubber industry, horse shoe manufacturing machine, sand blast carving, gauge lathe, grain elevator, large scale artificial ice, electromagnet applications, and the composing machine for printers.
Col Edwin Lawrence Drake, who sank the first oil well, lives in a modest Pennsylvania home. Disabled by neuralgia, he sits in an invalid chair watching tank cars carry oil from his discovery. An ill-timed illness prevented wealth, though he receives a $1500 annual pension.
A Bombay letter describes Bichu Nath a Rajpoot snake charmer and his cobra demonstration using a so called mad stone claimed to draw poison from wounds. The witness recounts a chicken death a warded by the stone and notes government snake and tiger bounty figures while questioning the stone's efficacy.
Charles A. Dana reports from London that this year is disastrous for British agriculture with incessant rains and floods destroying prospects for an average harvest. Ireland fares better but faces winter hunger. on the continent, crops vary from very bad to poor, with oats and potatoes especially harmed. Wheat is worst in England and Ireland, while Russia shows a strong wheat yield. a single bad year will not ruin England.
Edgar S. Werner describes a preventive method for stuttering in children. Proper care includes nourishment, outdoor exercise, full lung development, and avoiding fatigue or irritants. Do not push rapid speech, and have the child repeat full sentences rather than isolated words.
Captain J F Cox aboard the Priva teer returning from London claims sighting a sea serpent off Brest. He describes a black five foot diameter creature thirty miles offshore that rose thrice, then vanished, leaving him convinced it was not a whale or fish.
A New York Star verse recalls children at the doorway of school life. Little ones file in, sit, and study, bonds of youth forming as bells ring. The poem lauds budding discipline and curious energy, portraying rosy faces, budding berries, and the lure of learning.
The Worsted church in Canterbury New Hampshire features a mosaic interior of worsted needlework across vines flowers and various designs. Crocheted lambrequins hang at windows and zephyr wool flowers fill baskets. A widowed decorator who runs a work room near the church has long led Sunday services and read Beegher sermons from the pulpit.
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