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Newspaper
Elyria Lorain Constitutionalist
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1871
Page
3
An Oxford farmer hires a man for daily labor and pushes him to work beyond a sane limit. After a long day of plowing and chores, the hired man discovers the farmer sleeping and contemplates morning tasks. The tale ends with the hired man offering to split wood before breakfast.
A New York Suns report details a survival of a talking machine in that city soon to be exhibited publicly. The device uses wax, rubber tubes, skins, and wooden levers and nails speech in English, French, or German with clear articulation. Abidaine Faber, a modest lady, plays the keys with skill and declares no humbug. The machine can reproduce any sentence and demonstrated words like shrimp and Mississippi with remarkable clarity after seven years of development.
A correspondent describes a floating bell plan to explore a clear pond bottom for lost objects and bodies, suggesting similar methods could work at sea with a bottom observatory. Also reports on a Montreal gale causing property damage and a Persian province plague with high fatalities.
The pretrial proceedings in the De Medbicott case hinge on allegations he poisoned Mr. Roth to claim Roth's wife. The case draws intense local attention across Kansas and Missouri as a dramatic tale of passion and betrayal unfolds in Lawrence after Medbicott moved from Ohio years earlier.
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