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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1894
Page
2
The San Francisco Examiner recounts jewfish fishing in San Diego Bay where anglers chase giant fish using long lines and boats. The lengthy fight ends with the fish hauled ashore amid a crowd of onlookers as the monster flounders on the dock.
A fragment from a London gossip item notes onlookers stare at a woman's dress while speculating whether a bank robbery motive lies behind the fashionable attire. The terse remark contrasts style with crime chatter in a street scene.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat summary describes a man subjected to multiple wire insertions through muscles and arteries with no blood, pain, or bleeding. Physicians call it a remarkable display of painlessness, while the patient shows no flinching during the procedures.
A dignified editor in town receives a parcel labeled Old trousers for Miss W s furnace man. She hides the note under a smaller package in transit, realizing the inscription now reads Old trousers for Miss W giving her name in full.
M. Hanin proposes to the Geographical Society of Paris a chain of wooden huts placed about one to two days apart in Greenland to create a 900 mile supply route. Each hut would serve as a base for the next, requiring about a score of huts to reach the pole.
An elderly woman waits at a depot for Richard Robinson, expecting a reunion after friendship with his wife Sarah in Briggsburg. She carries three jars of fresh buttermilk and believes Robinson will meet her at the Chicago-bound train, aided by a cabman who locates him.
George T. Horton of St. Paul recalls testing a moose's speed from a locomotive to prove it can travel at a lively gait. The moose trotted alongside the steam engine for about four miles before veering into the forest when section workers appeared.
A reprint notes William Henry Bishop praising simple white meeting houses with Christopher Wren styled steeples. He recalls their modest charm, time’s change, and how these old structures stand out amid green landscapes and newer Gothic chapels, as they regain favorable view.
A shower of live frogs fell for five minutes over a 10 acre field on Ezra Willburn's farm in the county. The event, witnessed by Willburn's young son, left residents puzzled and the family feasted on frog meat afterward. Locals suggest a distant pond whirl wind could have drawn the amphibians aloft.
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