31 Jan 1889
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1889
Page
1
timetable entry dated November 25 1833 showing central standard time departures with numbered notes No 5 No 7 No 9 and times around 9 10 2 28 0 55 M30 11 45 for trains 1 9 and others
Train timetable shows daily routes between Columbus and Cincinnati with connections to St Louis Madisonville Blanchester Midland City Wilmington and Baltimore. Fast Express departs Cincinnati 7 10 pm via Pittsburgh with through service to Pittsburgh and sleeping car. Officials listed: W E Reppert Gen Pass Agent Columbus and B Peabody Gen Supt.
A short Victorian devotional verse prays for God’s blessing on a newborn year. Jennie Harrison signs the piece from the New York Observer. It speaks of a year of innocence, heavenly warmth, and trust in divine gifts for the child.
The Chicago con artist known as Hungry Joe Joseph Lewis alias Francis J Alvany and Henry F Post rose to notoriety as a premier bunko swindler preying on businessmen, nobles, and statesmen in cities across the US and Europe. He tricked Oscar Wilde and Charles Francis Adams among others while evading punishment for years.
A Boston Journal excerpt prints a Whittier reflection on burning private letters during the anti slavery era. He says he destroyed many received letters to protect writers and friends from publicity, calling private letters sacred and a breach of trust without consent.
A playful note on transforming pumpkins into pumpkin pies. the line plays with the word pumylins and puck as a humorous aside.
The JAn 19 to 25 Washington diary details Senate action on the tariff bill with sugar schedule focus, and House passage of circuit court provisions in several states. It notes resolutions on Louisiana judge Robertson’s death and a Senate pledge for a joint committee on Representative Barnes’s passing.
A celebrated criminal lawyer, who just won an acquittal for a noted assassin, asks the judge to detain the prisoner until tomorrow. He explains he must cross a lonely field on his way home and fears the wretch knows he has money. The judge agrees to the request.
An Eastern potentate asks courtiers who is greater the man or his father. A wily old courtier answers that the father is greater for having sired a greater son, and the courtier is promoted on the spot.
An Irish theatrical manager recently advertised for a broth of a boy to make a supe, prompting local chatter about talent searches and eccentric casting requests.
Columbus reports introduced measures range from road and highway rules to prison and taxation reforms. Senate debates include pools and trusts ban, fire pension extensions, and a plan for standard state time.
A Cincinnati Commercial Gazette tale recalls a St Louis reporter being summoned to Chouteau avenue. Three young women, curious about reporters, invited him to view what a reporter looks like, waiting for cousin Anne who is engaged to one. The evening ends with the reporter leaving puzzled.
Dispatches report a German man of war firing upon and disabling an American vessel en route from Zanzibar to Madagascar. London and Washington discuss Samoa and Zanzibar tensions as Britain and Germany face calls for joint protection or US assertive stance.
Two friends decide to read Shakespeare together starting with Romeo and Juliet. One notes they cannot read both plays at once, reflecting a light moment in a Boston Gazette item.
A quip from the Merchant Traveler about a lone oyster in a church stew, noting the creature is unwelcome yet still welcomed when needed.
Indianapolis story details Joseph A. Moore's large defalcation estimated up to 750000 with insurers and banks affected. He speaks from home in Indianapolis denying depositor harm while Abbott and a Connecticut Mutual accounting team investigate.
Report from Routt Colorado describes a genuine earthquake starting January 5 with afternoon shocks and violent quakes at 4 pm. Thunder preceded the tremors as rocks toppled from mountaintops and cattle panicked amid the terror in the region.
An English missionary named Brooks and sixteen followers were killed Saturday near Saadam by coast tribes and Zanzibar natives. The killings reflect intensified German hostility and affect European missions long based at Sandam where locals once welcomed missionaries. Public reaction ponders England’s possible punitive measures.
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