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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1878
Page
2
A sanitized, fragmentary 1877 timeline lists political upheavals in France and Louisiana, European diplomacy, naval disasters, and varied incidents. It notes elections, assassinations attempts, fires, hurricanes, and military actions across the United States, Europe, and Asia, with many dates and names garbled.
A compact chronology notes key 1877 events across empires and continents. Mehmet Ali’s successor Suleiman Fasha commands the Army of the Danube while Turkish forces clash with Skobeleff. Russian-Armenian victories, Romanian actions, and French cabinet changes occur amid assaults near Plevna and Elena. United States politics, strikes, disasters, and a Thanksgiving noted.
A Chambers Journal sketch portrays Icelanders of all ranks living together in shared quarters with limited cleanliness yet cheerful contentment. It highlights Icelandic beauty, Danish-linked blue eyes, long fair hair, and distinctive dress including a cloth bodice, silver braids, and velvet accents. On wet days the shawl serves as a mantilla shielding against storms.
The Detroit Free Press notes Ohio papers demand a new execution method as bungled hangings provoke public outrage. Proctor of Iowa is glad not all are experts, a mob previously hanged him, then his family briefly freed him, sparking renewed interest in Iowa matters and Langli g satire.
The Jardin d Acclimatation in Paris has received living specimens of the bird of paradise native to New Guinea. Indians and Malays trade them. the birds are captured at night with light arrows, then prepared and shipped via Malacca to India, China and Europe. The piece details how locals enforce a myth about the birds and the peril in preserving them.
A New York Tribune column skewers romance in daily life with anecdotes: a Chicago boy of fourteen elopes with a thirteen year old, a Washington naval officer proposes and marries within a week, a Coventry woman claims seven husbands, a Westfield woman ends an engagement after a mad dog bite, and a Massachusetts farmer at seventy three hires a son to find a young wife who then inherits money.
The scene shows a wife asking the time and a husband replying two hours to go until the opera. She hints at finishing gloves above the elbow while he endures a long day’s work. They still reach the opera in time, ending with the wife’s happiness despite a lingering fire incident noted by the Chicago Journal.
Daughters of Jefferson Davis travel in Germany as part of a historical or genealogical inquiry abroad, detailing their movements and arrival.
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