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Elyria Lorain Constitutionalist

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 11, 1871

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4

The Vermin Destroyers of London by Mr Black the Rat Catcher

In St James Magazine a memoir recounts the feats of Zom Black a famed rat catcher titled Bag destroyer to Her Majesty He describes removing three hundred rats from a wall hole and hauling them in his arms under his garments At Russell Square he freed a cartload of rats under a floor and joked the coachmen about corn losses Londoners sought his collection of rats sold to India and displayed in Lefroy or nearby shops His tales mix danger humor and a vivid if curious portrait of a Victorian pest hunter.

St. James Aigcourses Pleisant Aubiot London Tiffin Mr. Black Black Indiaa England pAt Arhop Lefcaster Square

Turbulent miscellany over the old town dispatches

A Massachusetts man disputes finding his son's boot ent from a purchase claiming time will wear them out in three weeks. A divorce case in Trumbull County debates baptism by immersion versus sprinkling. Two youths in Philadelphia show a dozen bars of so called eighteen carat gold that proves tin and brass. The New York Tribune praises Georgia’s reconstruction attempts. A 60,000 pound mining blast in California lifts and shatters gold bearing earth. An Arkansas ad jokes about resuming a marriage after misrepresentation. Ottawa parents discuss trap guns as burglar defense harming bystanders. An execution in Chattanooga is turned into a steamboat gallows excursion with a morbid artful crowd watching the condemned man.

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