04 May 1880
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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1880
Page
1
In a stitched-together summary of diverse topics a New York press items citizen remarks estimate incomes and commerce vary widely. Mentions Tay Gounn income at four thousand daily and Chicago business activity. Reports on US and international notes including politics, science, and culture with several named figures and places.
A mosaic of brief items mentions Josefa Winner the seven foot Missouri giant. a wartime joke about a colonel. Vanderbilt’s discreet $500 gift to a boy. Irish property and Lord Onirny. Cadet Whittaker inquiry. Ohio rail township debt near 3 million. satire on Adair defense. America and suffrage shifts in Massachusetts. cows in London sheds. Afghanistan press policies. Bradlaugh's bid in Parliament. Westport youths prosecuted. railroad passes and blacklists by western press association.
A Buffalo Courier New York correspondent warns against rushing toward better times as speculation surges and imports rise, noting risk to hard-won stability. The New Home of Adolph Sutro describes his San Francisco residence at Haven and Fillmore, praised for its opulence and art collection including works by old masters and a valued sculpture.
A collage of items on social scenes and home life. vivid accounts of a London drawing room crowd and sartorial mishaps, a comic tale of arsenic in a city man’s kitchen, and wry vignettes on marriage and domestic nightly routines. Notable mentions include Lord Beaconsfield in uniform, a dress coming undone, and a general air of public scrutiny. An array of curios and anecdotes from society, science, and daily living appear, with names and places lightly invoked.
A Bangor story recounts a Rockland post office letter addressed to “To the Handsomest Your Lady” displayed in a window. Citizens speculate who owns the letter as crowds watch maidens and young women, curious to claim the mysterious envelope amid lighthearted gossip and city chatter.
A Philadelphia note discusses Thomas Hardy as a leading English novelist, his appeal in America, and his career shift from surveying to writing. A medical feature warns that smoking harms youths, citing tests on 78 boys aged nine to fifteen showing circulatory and digestive issues, sleep disturbance, and later improved health after quitting.
During the war James P. Moore gave water to a wounded Yankee captain under fire. The officer offered a gold watch, later his letter revealed a bequest of 10 000 dollars, to be paid as two thousand dollars at a time, for Moore if he survived. Moore replied with a note and received a friendly reply confirming the bequest and payments.
A garbled early report describes bond schemes and a conductor crossing to cash them, hinting at a large mining region in Eastern Nevada. It notes 1869 district discovery, a major mining center with annual output in millions, and varied population estimates. It references a brown silk umbrella, a green gin, and a notable donation of about 5 million dollars to a cause spanning the United States and Europe.
A seven year old girl Mamie Fahey of 808 East Pearl Street burned her dress and herself with matches while alone with her baby sister. She woke seeking help but did not tell her mother why she did not stop the fire before dying.
A collage of humorous vignettes and odd quotes from a 19th or early 20th century page. It features snatches about a dry goods clerk named AX, painterly claims about Saath and Prado, a camel keeper, a camel joke, a judge and jury quip, a Delaware County moral about doors, a political speaker’s malapropism, a boot and shoe shop sign, Steubenville fashion gossip, and a Colorado Indian tale.
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