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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1890
Page
1
A garbled collection of ads and notices appears. Dentists, tailors, jewelers, and others offer services over shops and drugstores. Excursions and fairs are advertised with travel rates. Prohibition meeting and various sales copy fill the page along with scattered local notices.
An old anecdote tells of a youth selling shoes in Montpelier. A Green Mountain merchant challenges him with a box of samples and accepts. The other tale recalls Dr Edward Hitchcock recounting Gen Grant in Paris invited to Le Grand Prix races, yet Grant declines citing U.S. custom.
Reports from the Nesqually river mouth to Hendersons inlet recount a massive sea creature seen aboard steamers between Tacoma and Olympia. Witnesses describe a monster weighing about 600 pounds with a tail thrashing the water in a fifty foot span and a deafening roar heard repeatedly over a week.
A rail cars load of 5000 fine merino sheep traveling from California to Chicago was wrecked on the Atlantic and Pacific line. Over 1000 sheep were killed, and nearby Indians reportedly took sheep meat, raising concern that such opportunities may recur for sustenance.
Fragmentary ad copy notes wonders of spring clothing bargains. It mentions April to May timing and a Detroit Free Press style boast about great offers at Henry Moyers Eagle Clothing Store, urging readers to visit and shop.
A report recounts attacks on missionaries near Yokohama including Rev W Imbrie and Rev J L Amerman. Imbrie died after a fall while attempting observation, while Amerman and others faced threats and displacement. US Minister Swift was notified and promise of punishment followed.
A Maine source notes Walter Damrosch earns at least twenty thousand yearly while guiding two opera houses and lecturing on Wagner. Once held in private parlors, his Wagner talks now draw crowds in public halls. In Milton New Hampshire Charles Griffin narrowly escaped harm adjusting a large pulley, clinging to its arms as the machine started. Oscar Hueston is also mentioned in fragmentary context.
Sulalde of Famous Tailor Kowalski the Polish tailor once head of Parisian shop in Passage des Princes dies by self immolation. He was found by a charcoal stove after closing doors and windows, body sent to morgue. Nearby reports include railroad accident a 19 year old struck by glass from a wine bottle and other scattered items from various wires.
A locomotive engineer rescues a woman and another train crew member from danger with swift action. He signals, stops the engine, and leaps to pull her to safety before the other locomotive passes, earning and sharing in the passengers praise amid relief.
A notorious New York woman reportedly lets her dog run free in Madison and Union Square parks, tying the animal with a rope stretched to wash lines for a family laundry. She pays out rope to allow the dog access to flower beds until a nearby officer approaches, then tightens it again.
A Boston Transcript item comments on a London style where both young and older people wear trousers with the bottoms turned up. The fabric shows a deliberate careless reveal and the garment reaches the ankle when unfolded. The writer calls it a dull novelty and imagines it as a sociological curiosity for future scholars.
Rural squabbles over lightning protection mix with odd news items. A Blandon man is attacked by wild geese while fishing on Maiden creek, then a Louisville railroad worker wards off a dream that saved a freight line. A child breaks an arm, a 150 pound turtle counts eggs at a fair, and a North Carolina farmer plows with a novel method as ads for loans and sewing goods appear.
A fragmented quotation from a New York nine Ms piece laments clothing comfort and invention gaps. It notes neck protection expectations for winter, mentions linen shirts, silk, starch, and a desire to sew lace starch, reflecting early 19th century dress critique.
London correspodent notes that youthful poems by Miss Rossetti, once privately printed, now command steep demand with copies of the title book selling for around $25 in Chicago markets. The piece references a broader tale of charitable schemes and misused funds, remarking on public generosity and suspicion toward those exploiting noble causes.
The fragment describes a burial site in Harleigh cemetery near Camden New Jersey. It notes a natural mound beneath oaks and chestnut trees with a stream about 200 feet below cascading from an artificial lake. A driveway leads to the area in Esprea parish.
Corres via New Orleans Times a-Democrat reports Thomas Wiser nearly witnessed a fatal fall as a horse descended a precipice. A year old boy, sick and riding behind in a wagon, survived with only slight scratches while the wagon and horse were crushed. The incident ends with the boy in better health.
A fragmentary report notes the death of the Duchesse de Persigne and her marriage to the Marquis de Sombroul, marking a rare surviving tie between the first and second empires. It mentions the Duc de Persigny as a minister and hints at census work, but details are incomplete and garbled.
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