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Newspaper
Brimfield Gazette
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1877
Page
3
A Christmas plea in verse from Santa Claus lamenting hunger and poverty. He describes shops filled with wares and workers across lands, yet many face bare stores and missing funds. He calls for help from all to feed the starving, hoping readers respond with charity and gratitude.
Denis Daneabrook of Shrop Hall, a tall ugly but wealthy man, is misjudged as wife Julia Leyland’s protector amid a Christmas feast. A lodge plot, jealous lieutenant Claude Cottrell and a dramatic, fatal wound thrust Danesbrook through prison until the truth, spoken by the wounded officer, clears him and restores honor. The real killer escapes to America, while Julia and Mrs Cottrell reconcile.
In a Boston office of W. & Co. agents for Australian packet ships, a Cincinnati inquiry led to second-cabin passage for Mr Hatfield, his wife, son Joseph Jr, and Miss Blanche aboard the Daniel Sharp. A confrontation over race and baldness interrupts as tensions flare before departure.
A report discusses the myth of the so called horse hair snake arising from horsehair and mane remnants. It notes experts clarify the creature does not eat like insects and is a misidentification. The piece mentions Leidy and other scientists analyzing the organism’s anatomy and feeding behavior.
A sensational interview at a New York slaughterhouse describes patients drinking steer blood as a supposed cure for consumption and weakness. The account covers patient stories, social mix, and physician skepticism, with notes on a grave case of a four year old girl reportedly helped by entrail therapy. The piece questions medical ethics and markets blood as a tonic.
A fragment recalls Mr Zacobe of Dewage born centuries ago and Caths, with mentions of 1810 navy service on Lake Ontario. The text praises longevity and notes an elderly woman of 87 with three children, in a foggy news snippet from New York.
A detailed recount of Houdin's Indian basket illusion with a child performer, the use of a table, looking glasses, traps, and a blood colored liquid to simulate execution. The piece notes audience reactions and Houdin’s later improvements, then discusses a Cortland bank robbery and the thief’s network, including a broker who negotiated the loot and a deception device using rubber and wax bills.
A narrative recalls a California visit with Senator Morton and family including a Virginian City trip. The group toured the Consolidated Virginia mine with passing shaft observation though Morton declined the descent. Ladies wore male attire for the occasion, described with period detail, while others watched from the shaft.
Edward King recounts Gambetta’s fiery speech in the French Assembly amid a riotous clash with Bonapartists. Grevy orders a retraction after calls of theft and fraud, while officials and crowd react with deafening uproar and tense politicking.
A ragged, OCR styled column cites fluctuating sugar data in England, a Cotopaxi eruption report from Ecuador impacting distant areas, Italian asset sales and bids, and assorted miscellaneous lines about customs, politics, and daily life. It reads like a collage of loosely connected items with numerous garbled phrases and stray numbers.
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