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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1878
Page
3
The piece surveys winter fashion, noting velvet capes, striped silks, Grecian bodices, Pekin brocade, fringed trims, and fur accessories as in vogue. It highlights colors from greens to blues, morning dress sleeves, and bridal blue cashmere gowns, plus recent wedding party outfits. It closes with a Berlin property price drop postwar.
A fragmentary lecture recalls coastal Greenland and its interior, noting Erik the Red’s voyage and Hans Egede. It describes ice vastness, moaning rivers beneath, and sheer cliffs plus sparse flora including club moss, dwarf willow, birch, and Arctic flowers across a white world beneath a blue vault.
A French murderer Emile Damas attacked his father mother and brother in St. Jean du Gard with a hatchet and knife. He then killed his wife during a struggle before taking refuge in a barn. Police found the bodies and he hanged himself in Alais prison.
The Butter Cheese and Egg Reporter explains a typical American car load weighs about 20 000 pounds and lists items varying in quantity from 70 barrels of salt to 26 000 pounds of gutter including lime flour whiskey cattle hogs sheep boards wheat corn oats barley flax seed apples potatoes bran eggs and more.
Houston dispatch relays a graphic siege narrative in which Mexican besiegers mine and fortify a one story ranger building at San Elizario. Lieut Tays and Judge Howard attempt escape under a truce but are forced to surrender after mob pressure. Howard Atkinson and McBride are executed, while Rangers are disarmed and threatened by Mexico.
Titusville Herald reports a remarkable discovery by Thomas and John Lovejoy using a private telephone line. By pressing the mouth against the body and speaking, sound transmits over the wire without lips to the mouth, tested over 3.5 miles to Boughton switch.
A San Francisco Chronicle feature traces the life of Mrs. W C Ralston, from a New York romance with a Vanderbilt-connected woman to a dynastic marriage with Lizzie Fry. After a tragic death, estate disputes unfold as Sen Sharon and Col J D Fry face trust issues and a Providence lawyer seeks an accounting.
A correspondent describes Mrs Judith Henry's grave on the hill near Bull Run. The marble slab, funded by her children, marks her as killed by shell explosion in July 1861 at age eighty five while bedridden. She was daughter of Landon Carter Sr born nearby. her husband Dr Isaac Henry served as a U S Navy surgeon aboard the Constitution. Her long life at the site is praised for kindness and Christian spirit.
The first electric light test in Berlin lit the Oranienburg street synagogue from rooftop equipment, flooding the interior and exterior with brilliant, non glaring illumination. The electric light proved far cheaper per hour than gas, though the apparatus cost several thousand marks.
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