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Newspaper
Columbus Democrat
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1877
Page
3
During cool evenings a man can walk with his partner and read signs calmly. Reverend Alex Parker has been voted a vacation by his congregation and will leave with his family for Waukesha this week. The trip is hoped to benefit him.
Frank Griffith and his companion travel to Cincinnati for a day of sights. They enjoy inexpensive fare and a yellow necktie gift, marvel at the zoological garden, pay admission, and plan to see the elephant despite frugal spending. The pair admire the aviary and lion, sharing playful banter and romantic banter about travel.
Mane of L Billy Davis attempted a joke by sending a worker to Howard Duffy’s grocery with a folder asking for a large agricultural implement. A store employee read the note and handed it to a customer who exposed the prank. Howard explained and the boy reported it, ending with a note that spittoons at Dick Carter’s are safe again. Also noted are a two story residence project by Hiram Troutman on Jackson street, marriage licenses for four couples, Busch & Sons selling a saw mill engine, and daily depot activity.
The government sent sculptor Mills to Fort Marion to make casts of sixty two Indian chiefs including Lone Wolf. The process used tight caps and yellow paste to create molds in about fifteen minutes. The casts will join the Smithsonian collection for phrenology studies. Salt water day draws New Jersey seaside visitors near New York. A Newton county Ga girl, believing she is a baby, has not spoken in three years but still writes letters.
Chicago Post reporter records Prof Pike’s reaction to acquittal on insanity grounds. He laments the verdict, vows to publish views, and hints at continuing study. Described as grave. a sexton for decades, he never smiled, keeping funeral gravity in all moments.
The piece reports opium and morphine price swings with quotes and notes on quinine, cincohonidids, and gold mine outputs in North Carolina Georgia and South Carolina. It cites Dahlonega stamp mills, Boston capital, and labor costs, and includes a quip about a New Hampshire paper and a joke about potato bug coverage versus the legislature.
In Nelson county and Walton's Lick Washington county a remarkable marriage feat is reported as Dode Chesher, 25, son of Rev. J M Chesher, marries his grandmother, the widow of 45, following fame of James Parton and John Downs for unusual unions. The piece notes it as a historic act in this age of progress.
The Ajmir paper reports Mahara jah of Jaih seeks to end widow disqualification from remarriage. A four pundits and one European council will explain that Shastras permit widows to wed, a stance welcomed as progressive.
About a week earlier one accused approached him on his car at One Hundred and Nineteenth street and asked to make money. He was told of a racket and shown how to steal fares by manipulating the punch and register. A $5 weekly share was promised to each conspirator. Names withheld as arrests were pending. The company plans to use arrested conductors as witnesses and parole them. The method involved ringing up fares and slipping the punch so fares were unrecorded.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the cremation furnace used for Dr. Winslow was dismantled after processing his body. Ashes weighed initially showed iron particles from the cremation bed, later removed, yielding three pounds eight and a half ounces of pure white ash. The heart was embalmed and shipped to Massachusetts in a half gallon glass vessel, with cremation costs around 1500 dollars, unless cremation were standard. The Deadwood scene describes Sabbath streets filled with trains, mules, auctioneers, and noisy crowds, with bootblacks and newsboys promoting the latest strife and road-agent chatter.
A Philadelphia era item describes a one dollar five dollar bill split and rejoined to resemble six dollars, yielding four dollars profit for swindlers. It cites Judge West and a Lafayette Indiana Journal critique, then shifts to a Kentucky beauty stereotype and a playful natural history aside about mosquitoes and leopards, all via reprinted anecdotes.
W F Stockton twelve son of Jnc W Stockton filed suit in Common Pleas Court through guardian H C Reid against W C D Whips for 25 000 damages alleging malicious killing on January 26 1877 at the Willard Hotel. Whips was acquitted at trial. Watermillion Courier Journal report notes related gossip on cholera pills and a watchful night watch on a fence.
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