20 Nov 1872
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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1872
Page
1
The Elkhart Observer weekly declares subscription terms and rates. It lists county and town officers, trustees, and church denominations with service times and locations, including Congregationalist Methodist Catholic Evangelical lines and managers at 102 Main Street.
A fragment from the Knickerbocker Magazine recalls an 410 year old “song of war” about Continental troops in battle. The verse depicts grenadiers advancing, cannons firing, sailors banners, and the closing clash of rifles and drums as soldiers confront the iron six pounder.
The notice lists adjusted local post office hours and train arrivals and departures from Orrick Hovurs and nearby towns. Main Line trains west and east run various times, with special Sunday midday openings. Money order and registry office hours are 8 to 7:20 p.m. R. K. Brush, P.M.
Postoffice notice states mails received until further notice on Sunday morning, with Sunday evening dispatches to East West and South points closing at five. Local business notices list insurers agents attorneys and businesses in Elkhart Indiana including Elkhart House Clifton House First National Bank and a paper company offering services and accommodations.
In Aldine November style a ship captain recalls hiring Chas Gray as second mate for a Frisco voyage aboard the Stormy Petrel. Gray's incredible past includes a whaling wreck on Magdalena Island, brutal tattooing by cannibals, four years living with a Polynesian chief, and a return to New York to become a Kansas farmer and state legislator alongside a wife he calls a queen.
A Tennessee Virginia border town, Bristol, sits two thirds in Tennessee and one third in Virginia. The main street runs across the line, housing two mayors, two sets of officers, and parallel shops and hotels. Residents cross to Virginia or Tennessee for courts, elections, and liquor, illustrating a quirky checks and balances in a single community.
The English novelist Edmund Yates commands about a hundred dollars per lecture and expects sixty to seventy engagements in winter, plus twenty five hundred dollars from a story sale and ten thousand more from American copyrights. Tyndall’s scientific lectures are projected to yield over twenty thousand dollars. The Italian Po River flood devastates Ferrara and surrounding areas with tens of thousands homeless, crops submerged, and aid being rapidly sent. Agnes Livingstone publishes a father’s letter noting two prior letters were sent to Mr Ya…, and a book-writing plan faces costs and logistics.
A personal reminiscence describes the sheer joy and social energy of laughter, contrasting subtle quiet giggles with explosive bursts. The piece notes how laughter can rise to high forms like poetry and music while sharing a vivid anecdote of a gifted relative who triggers contagious mirth among friends.
Barnaby Butz of Reading, the oldest locomotive engineer, received the company’s farewell tribute for long faithful service. Born in Luzerne County in November 1818, the veteran began work at about age 11 on the Little Schuylkill Railroad between Tamaqua and Port Clinton, later becoming a storied iron horse traveler.
The piece reports slow progress toward allowing widows to remarry in Arabia and Hindostan. It cites a Hindostan case where a widow named Jivokre sought a second husband, faced mob violence, authorities released her, and she promptly wed her lover. The bride's property may be seized and Brahmin priests excommunicated. The author aligns with Susan B. Anthony and Fere Hyacinthe in predicting eventual triumph.
Three Chinese inventors have secured two patents in Paris for a new automatic autographic continuous telegraphic instrument. The device enables dispatch to be transmitted to a receiver via transmitters, with the apparatus aiding the transmission process.
A fragmentary OCR note from November refers to Thanksgiving Day with garbled text. It hints at a holiday context but contains unreadable portions and missing specifics. No clear names or institutions are identifiable in the readable lines.
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