01 Jan 1876
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Newspaper
Cannelton Reporter
Location
Cannelton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1876
Page
1
A miscellany column describes Dabvil as a deadly residuary gas from illuminating works, claims it kills grass instantly, and costs only cents per gallon. The piece also surveys a string of short items from love disputes in Illinois to Mexican coast contagions, London crime, and Birmingham production metrics.
A German forest folktale of Berthold the merchant who seeks shelter with a collier family. A mysterious little old man tests his greed with a haunted room and a giant house-spirit. The collier family overcomes evil through faith, prayer, and innocence, leaving the specter’s power diminished.
A Connecticut pair of coasters Vienna and Willian Winkle were boarded by pirates off Hunter's Point. Pirates fired through cabin walls, one man from the Winkle was cast into the sea, crew of Vienna imprisoned. The piece warns youths not to idealize piracy, noting genuine pirates lack ships and often commit burglaries on land.
In a Flores Street School geography lesson about Austin institutions the class forgot the Lunatic Asylum and quipped that the Constitutional Convention is the state’s “permanent home” for the reasonless. The MILWACKER Sentinel notes two Louisville golden weddings and a dollar store reopening. The grand jury system is praised as generally better than the grand jury.
Washington correspondence details high Senate pay scales from secretary of the Senate at 5576 annually plus 10000 to 15000 in perquisites, chief clerks at 4000, and various clerks and officers. notes on Capitol police, perks, and graft risks through lobby ties. plus anecdotal travel remedies and assorted cultural snippets.
A poem by Sarah D. Clare portrays a lone flower blooming in Siberian snows. It wakes as bells toll across the world, linking eternal Christmas imagery to nature’s resilience, light, and divine love in a distant mountain setting.
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