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Newspaper
Fort Smith Elevator
Location
Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1883
Page
1
A historical portrait describes Mr. Brown as a fashionable yet hypocritical church leader who used a government post to enrich himself. He mingled piety with public fraud, teaching children while pocketing funds and defrauding the government, a stain on the church despite its charitable façade.
A scattered press summary notes a lighter Texas wool clip this season, fire destroys the St Albans Baptist church at Nauer valued around $30,000, and other varied items including markets in New York Jersey cattle sales, whisky shipments, and casualty events.
A Georgia court story recalls Judge Cone fining forty defendants ten dollars each for gambling in 1845 or 1846. He lectured on immorality, then ordered one special information against him with a final $100 fine on the judge, after which the clerk called the next case.
A Pine Bluff incident asks Arkansas papers to publish a plea for Susie, a girl raised near Springfield who claims two Confederate brothers and a family in Pine Bluff. Her mother and one sister died on a wartime train. she has not seen relatives since. Requests readers to contact the editor.
Wall Street story portrays a dying speculator who jokes about short selling and margin calls. A doctor warns the patient must face possible death within days as he bets on a market rebound and a May delivery. The tale ends with the undertaker’s looming visit and the man once more hitting the street.
The Baltimore Sun reports a sperm whale skeleton found on Florida coast near Jupiter Inlet is brought to Baltimore aboard a steamer for Professor Baird at the Smithsonian Institution. Scientists examine the bones and assess the creature’s length and origin amid freight noise and wreckage.
A collage of quips and jokes from various sources includes Josh Billings and Mrs Partington on life’s little frets, a real estate scam tale, a hungry tenant and a cat dish, plus a Kansas City roundup of odd characters and mishaps.
In Jefferson County, last week three convicts fled Sennett plantation. The trusties tasked with bloodhound care pursued them but were attacked as they faced past ties. The convicts hanged the dogs to a tree. two pursuers were killed and the third escaped.
A boat fisherman with a hand line or trawl captured a codfish weighing 190 pounds. It measured 5 feet 5 inches in length with a long head and snout, reported in the recent fishing tally.
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