03 Sep 1869
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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1869
Page
1
The Coshortoix is published every Friday morning by Ww. Colliery with a circulation over 1,200. Friday Morning, September 8, 1869, Pittsburgh Cincinnati line and railroad notices indicate schedules. Trains run west and east with express times listed, including a schedule by S.A. Scull, GT. act columns.
Notice advertises Bell & Bellows at 102 South Twig Street offering ladies ready made walking suits dresses and cloaks with latest styles. Madame Wolke a dressmaker promises made up garments in one day from own materials and trim stock. Call and inspect goods from Coshocton area residents.
An eyewitness account recounts a dramatic railroad chase at seventy miles per hour after a fire broke out on an oil train. A locomotive pursued a flaming train down a grade toward a junction, the engine roaring full throttle as flames lapped the night sky and the crew prepared to sacrifice their lives to save an oncoming express.
A fragmentary sketch recalls a perilous oil car incident where a fireman stayed with his engine to the end, narrowly sparing lives. The piece shifts to a portrait of Josh Billings, praising his humor, oddity, and public notoriety, noting his New York Weekly role and lecture earnings.
Fragmented reminiscence contrasts a man’s fading home life with a brutal rail disaster tale. The speaker laments wife abandonment amid poverty while recounting a dramatic runaway locomotive at Echo, Union Pacific, where a woman leapt from a train, then killed herself after a 26 mile dash, ending in tragedy.
A clever porch-side theft unfolds at Ralph Hardman’s shop as a well-dressed stranger posing as a professor tries to buy an old Cremona violin with promises of money and orchestra connections. The owner buys the instrument for 175 dollars, but a later expert values it at two dollars and a half, suggesting a planned swindle with untold profits for accomplices. The tale ends with suspicions of a conspiracy between the stranger and a director.
An undated account describes Jala Tu Knowlton's breakthroughs in machining and patenting a device to form any material into a near perfect sphere. It notes a dog training anecdote and a boring tool capable of drilling through granite, with a European patent sale and a moral about persistent study.
A pithy revival of Rev. Joh odd style urges self reliance and moral discipline. It counsels steering one’s own ship, avoiding excess humility, pursuing energy and determination, and honoring civility, honesty, law, and truth while leaving outcomes to God.
An older wire service fragment describes the flag design with its stripes and blue union, then shifts to stray animal notices requiring owners to describe and report livestock to township and county clerks within set windows. Also reports a death of a child from choking on an apple and a Seymour Times item about bed clothing spreading smallpox after being hidden in a wall.
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