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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
2
Poem fragment quotes Norman Gale on birds and nature with lines about pecking a friend, bleeding at the wing, and birds arising to the skies. The verses describe affection for the forest, healing, and a plea to stay with the speaker stroking a bird’s breast and admiring earthly velvet.
Richard Dean promises Millicent Durand to honor a vow to her even as he contemplates his loss and the rival Harry Watson. Milly gives Dick a ring and asks him to resist temptation while she and Harry await the schooner Hesperus. The scene ends with the ship sailing away and Milly’s injunction lingering.
The schooner Hesperus is driven toward rocks in a gale near a dark coastline. Harry, Dick, Milly, and the captain face a perilous shipwreck as loyalties and love test friendship, culminating in a heroic sacrifice on the grim shore.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a man named John admitting uncertainty after his wife accuses him of failing to tell an expressman to come that afternoon. He plans to check with the expressman to resolve the dispute, suggesting either he or the expressman is lying.
A humorous exchange shows a couple joking about buying gifts for a special day. They celebrate a rare moment of agreement and pretend harmony in the family as a light note in Texas Siftings.
The Philadelphia Telegraph reports on a revived plan to mint medals using a hydraulic press capable of 2000 tons. William Sellers & Co. built the unit costing 7000 dollars, with 1,000,000 pound test pressures on 4 inch General Grant dies. The machine uses a 744 horsepower motor and oil ram drive, with annealing and 20000 psi flow for metal to begin to yield.
Postmortem Examiner Thornbury reports James O Rourke died as a result of a rare cardiac stone lodged in the center of the heart. The heart was abnormally enlarged, occupying space for the left lung, with only a small blood passage remaining. The stone, four to five ounces, filled the aortic cavity and is described as carcerous in nature. The case is deemed unprecedented and advances surgical inquiry per the London Dispatch.
An exchange cites a manager reproaching an actor for smiling during a death scene. The actor quips that with current wages, death feels like a release, as reported by the New York Herald.
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