19 Apr 1888
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1888
Page
1
Readable fragments describe an unconfirmed incident or event with scattered numbers and names unclear. The item hints at dates and figures but lacks coherent context or identifiable entities. Further transcription is needed for a proper, sourced summary.
In a comic vignette Mr. Bigelow endures a sleepless night as he tests memory drills and sacred texts for sleep, chasing calm with alphabet lapses and catechism gaps. By dawn the planned rest collapses and he rushes downtown late to a costly breakfast.
A long sermon by Rev. T DeWitt Talmage on jealousy argues it as a universal vice affecting law medicine politics and church. He cites historical figures from Caligula to Garfield to illustrate envy wrecking careers and calls for elevating imitation and charity over rivalry.
The report notes about 4,000 theaters operating nationwide with daily amusement expenditures totaling roughly 1 million dollars. It highlights the scale of entertainment demand and spending in the industry.
A New York woman who poisoned her two children with Rough on Rats said she bought the poison because it could be purchased without a doctor's order. The article notes laws prohibiting indiscriminate poison sales may not be strictly followed by druggists.
The proposal suggests that the new fractional currency be kept clean by requiring post offices and National banks not to re issue notes after redemption or deposit. Instead they would supply new notes on demand and send old notes to a designated place for destruction.
Washington reports Mrs. E. E. Briggs has given about 70 000 square feet between South Caroli avenue Sixth Seventh and D streets for a five men’s university patterned after Girard College Philadelphia. Valued at about 200 000 dollars. The institution will be controlled by women and offer lectures to enable women to speak.
Article describes a leather envelope with a metal staple and padlock designed for lovers to secure a note or address card. Two keys are sold with the device. The scheme ends with the lover locking the envelope and Cupid starting the romantic mission.
Reports detail extensive flooding along the Cannon River at Red Wing with three quarters to one mile of flooded flats and railway damage to the Minneapolis and St. Louis line including submerged tracks, down telegraph wires, and a washed-away bridge. Wisconsin towns report high river levels, ice jams on the Wisconsin River, collapsed bridges at Lyndon and New Lisbon, and suspended rail traffic. The St. Lawrence flood fear grows as ice breaks and households move belongings ahead of rising waters.
A Little Rock dispatch reports an investigation into the convict contract system used for petty offenders in county jails. It cites cases where prisoners worked beyond their court sentences, and accuses brutality including whipping neglect filthy clothing and short rations with some citizens implicated in the scandal.
John L Wilson former publisher of the Evening Journal from 1861 to 1866 died of apoplexy in Chicago at age 75 or 76. He arrived in Chicago in 1833 and served as sheriff of the county in 1857 58, one of the city's surviving pioneers.
In Curxton Kansas on April 13 Charles Clinton died instantly after a revolver misfire while he and William Morris played with the weapon. Morris fled the scene and is at large with authorities believing the shock may have driven him insane.
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