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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1896
Page
6
Maurice Francie Egan reflects in Century on returning from death to life. The speaker asserts a shared life beyond mortal death, enduring through winds and breath until revived by seraphic glory, with a temple of living memory saying I have not died.
In a brutal arena scene Karl replays the death of his comrade Davoro as Tarpus, a famed gladiator, faces a hungry Numidian lioness. The crowd roars while memories of home and hatred of the Romans flood the hunter’s mind, ending in a grim, fatal confrontation.
In an arena a black lioness suddenly spares Tarpus as he kneels with a gladius. The crowd holds breath as the two seem bound by a mysterious bond. Archers kill the gladiator and the lioness. a French post finds a man named Karl nearby after a savage encounter.
Tearing down a Spruce Street rear building uncovers an 800 year old English brick dungeon once the colony courthouse. Bricks to be reused in new construction. The adjacent building features a windowless fourth floor with portholes, once used to repel attackers.
The passage from Tristram Shandy cited as Sterne’s unblushing conveying is compared to a 1679 Baconiana introduction by T. T. i. e. Tenison. It argues the text demonstrates a bold instance of literary theft with a claim of copying from a private appetite to sacrifice a creature.
The Troy Times notes a rising bicycle fad and widespread mispronunciation. Some pronounce the y as in cycle, others as ee, but proper usage is bi-sik-1 with stress on the first syllable.
Colonel Higginson said in Cambridge that The Autocrat seemed balanced for a month or two before fate tipped toward success or failure. Mr Underwood, then Atlantic assistant editor, feared Holmes that his outspoken sayings might be seen as conceit though the outcome soon became clear.
The Dutch oil tank steamer Bremerhaven, 2578 tons, sailing from Baltimore January 18 bound for Antwerp, faced a devastating gale off Cape Henry. A fire in the stoke hole after oil leaked from bunkers threatened the ship and 1.8 million gallons of oil. Captain M W Ninnes led a determined fight with engines shut and canvas packed to smother the blaze. After two days of work, fires died, water was bailed, and the ship, though damaged, headed toward New York reaching quarantine after fog and heavy seas. The crew is hailed as heroes for saving all aboard.
An excerpted verse laments the passing of autumn flowers as the year dies. The speaker catalogs zinnias marigolds lilies daisies dahlias asters hollyhocks violets and roses, noting their colors and fragility as they fade toward winter, in a somber voice attributed to the St James Gazette.
The Chicago Times-Herald recounts how Governor Bob Stewart pardoned an aged convict he recognized from a Missouri penitentiary visit. The exchange recalls a steamboat mate’s brutality, the boy robbed and set ashore, and Stewart’s dramatic pardon then later life in Washington as a senator.
A French statistician reports Paris leads European capitals in foreign residents with 181,000 foreigners and 47,000 naturalized. Germans, Belgians, Swiss, Italians, and others form sizable communities, while native Parisians account for 36 percent. London, Berlin, Vienna, and St Petersburg show varied native shares and foreign counts.
An analysis asserts that most European royal families are of German origin. It claims the British, Austrian, Spanish, Danish houses trace German heritage, while the Swedish line mixes French and German ancestry. It notes the French, Portuguese, and Italian houses as among the non German lines. It also states rulers of Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania are Germans.
A child reports the rabbi's speech as sleepy to the next day’s caller. The excerpt includes humor about the rabbi and a humorous exchange with Little Effie. It also mentions Cape Horn’s rough passage and Civil War facts about West Point graduates, New York as a major city and manufacturing state.
Orlando 13, Chambers of 263 Greenwich street and Miss Josephine Conklin of 43 Breecker street New York were wed by Justice Reincke on Jersey City Heights Sunday. The groom confessed his nerves saying he married because the leap year prompt led the match.
Aliceton a hamlet of 100 residents with no women receives nationwide attention as mail from women seeking marriage pours in. An eastern woman proposals a boarding house and a Philadelphia man seeks to retire there in peace after three marriages.
The pianist Paderewski, famed idol of femininity, is described as human as he plays poker. After four hours of effort at the table he ends $4.50 ahead and shows boyish delight, mirroring a child with a red wagon.
A portrait of Daniel Lamont, rising from Cortland County clerk to secretary of war under Cleveland. The article highlights his early ethic of diligence, his long service as private secretary, and a key telegraphy anecdote that shows telegraphy’s practical value for a boy’s life. It ends with Lamont urging American boys to learn telegraphy if time permits.
Secretary Lamont, a high government officer and War Secretary, enjoys fine horses and carriages and attends all Washington state dinners as guest. He has never drunk alcohol or learned to smoke, and his success is attributed to his steadfastness and shrewdness. New York.
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