14 Jan 1875
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Newspaper
Cuba Patriot
Location
Cuba, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1875
Page
1
The Cuba Patriot urges readers to subscribe, promoting the paper as Allegany County’s best local news source. The note frames the publication as timely and audience centered, calling on the community to engage with its reporting.
The Cuba Patriot announces its plan to discuss leading daily questions fairly under the motto How to the line let the chips fall where they will. It pledges condensed weekly news with local county items and an agricultural department, and asks readers to subscribe and promote club memberships. Subscription rates listed for various quantities.
Fragmentary timetable notes list routes from Erie Railway with stops including Andover Belvidere Vandalla Dunkirk and Vermellsville. It cites fares and travel times, daily departures excluding Sundays, and ticketing logistics with emphasis on through tickets and depot pickup.
Incoming overseas orders and correspondence are to be promptly attended to at Cuba N Y. All private letters and business communications are directed to this location for handling.
The text reflects on the old year passing from reality to memory and welcomes the new year. It mentions midnight bells tolling in a village, new vows, and hopes for happiness in Seventy Five. It reads as a period voice of celebration and renewal.
Flora Hastings and Alfred Hastings drift from affectionate routine to a bitter quarrel over reading habits and pride. A night of cold silence, a storm, and illness reveal the true cost of neglect, teaching them restraint and renewed care in their marriage.
A moral exhortation urges steady daily gains in money knowledge and virtue. It notes that small consistent steps accumulate over time toward wealth and wisdom, praising persistent self-improvement and the slow rise toward a high personal standard. It ends with a reference to the 1874 Couniotiane apple crop valued at 82 000.
In Jamestown police court this morning Warren Hollister faced charges after an evening stabbing attempt on Charles Bradburn. Hollister attacked Bradburn with two knives as the sick man lay in bed, Bradburn warding off the blows with injuries to hands and arms before neighbors and Bradburn’s brother restrained the assailant. Hollister was taken into custody for further proceedings.
A Newburyport Herald item recounts a frugal household remedy where mustard poultices were applied to a sick family member’s feet. When the doctor arrived the saver vows the poultices will not be lost, and the woman adds they will save the cost of fire. The anecdote satirizes extravagance while highlighting resourceful domestic effort.
A New York Herald report from the Hamburg criminal court recounts the brutal death of Herman Donars, who worked escape passage as a fireman on the Hamburg steamship Lessing. Firemen Wendt and Burmeister beat him, burned him with a red hot iron, and dumped his body at sea. Wendt sentenced to three years, Burmeister to eighteen months, Captain Toosburg reproved for lax action.
December saw the public debt grow by 3 659 967. Famine worsens in Asia Minor with high fatalities. Weastfield in Chautauqua County donates 100 for grasshopper relief. Coal prices are expected to drop in mining regions. Governor Tilden was inaugurated. ex Governor Dix left Albany for New York. Roe Brothers grocers of Cincinnati have failed with assets about 15 000 and liabilities 181 000. Reverend Yutz’s sermon titled Fell Closed for Repairs was heard in New Haven New Year’s night. Windsor Locks church blends Roman Catholic and Adventist doctrines. Postage to Canada remains at three cents with counties retaining receipts. Sheridan Oregon uses a church for croquet on weekdays. Worcester’s Praying Women Temperance Union provides hot coffee to firemen at fires. Cincinnati medical students contribute 120 000 to 150 000 yearly to the city.
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