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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1879
Page
2
Willis B Hopson announces sale of Branford Gleaner to Charles E Bunnell as Seas World expands. He reflects on eighty five weeks of publishing, thanks patrons, notes rival paper, and expresses confidence in a wider future under the new editor.
An article extols cod liver oil’s value in Newfoundland fishing wealth and trade. It notes major oil production from cod livers, its export to England, and the high American duty. it also warns of adulteration and outlines crude purification methods. The piece shifts to reflections on sailors, sea life, and the need for fair treatment at sea, urging support for mariners and respect for their dignity.
The funeral for Miss Ida E Augur was held Monday afternoon at 2:30 at First Church Guilford. Rev Baldwin and Rev Banks led services with choir readings and prayers as flowers surrounded the casket. Interment followed at Alderbrook Cemetery with pallbearers listed. Cyrus W Field and family visited Guilford for a few hours after.
The John H Statin ran 22 excursion trips to Shelter Island from New Haven this season with 7 268 paying passengers and no accidents. On peak days some parties were refused due to crowding. The vessel can carry 500 now and will be lengthened 30 feet this fall or winter to raise capacity to 1 000.
The passage records street sayings and streetwise advice as a corner loafer jokes with a policeman about moving along. It notes a harsh line about violence using a small stone to break a head. It also mentions a malarial district in Indiana where locals allegedly nickname a police unit as Qui nine.
Yale Law School librarian Mr John A Robinson abstracts oyster laws from Maine to Virginia for Connecticut Commissioners. The piece notes differences in planting requirements taxes and private grounds rights, praising New York Virginia rules and urging uniform, stricter legislation to curb abuse and unfairness along shores.
A landsman fears the sea as a vast waste while a sailor, from boyhood, is at home with waters. His eye reads the sea book where the Creator has written the sea and the dry land in their abundance.
An excerpt from Our Young Folks explains how the Florida Keys formed from coral reefs and sand flats. It describes island groups, vegetation, and the gradual connection of islands to the mainland as sand and mud accumulate, creating dry land and bridging the gap between the Keys and Florida’s coast.
The article explains sponge anatomy and harvesting around the Florida Reef. It notes Key West as the principal depository with sponge yards near Conchtown, ships carrying 10 to 20 ton loads, and a growing trade exporting to New York merchants.
The sea as a vast graveyard for countless souls, its surface storms masking a peaceful deep. Tiny life, shells, and sediment drift down to cover lost mariners while water wears rock and channels, yet the buried remain asleep until God raises them for judgment.
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt recounts a shark lured by heated brick placed overboard. A cook named Bruce suggested the ruse. the shark chased the brick, gulped it, and died, with observers noting the creature’s agonized last moments as waves churned and the sea calmed.
A collection of joke lines from papers including a Boston Post tip about slippers as compliments in small sizes. The Rochester Democrat notes a young man mailed twenty five cents to learn to write without a blotter and got the lead pencil reply. Cincinnati Saturday Night remarks Mr Olds of Columbus inventing an improved refrigerator and jokes about the Olds cool era.
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