21 Apr 1898
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1898
Page
1
In a grim tale, Franklin Jarvis a dress goods manufacturer pleads his innocence as his lawyer escorts him from the Tombs after a grim night. Jarvis recounts a fifteen year marriage under sudden fortune and growing strain as a murder case unfolds.
A man recounts his descent into crime sparked by a failing marriage and his obsession with writing. After murdering his wife in a staged scene, a manuscript detailed the act, leading to arrest and a chilling courtroom confession from a house servant who overheard the quarrel and revealed the theft and crime.
The verses recall sailors from Maine Kansan Hampshire and Tennessee who died at sea. The poem laments that no glory or battle cry followed them and a nation mourns as the dark sea keeps its dead beneath the bay. It ends with a stray line about a dodgeball in a crowd.
A roundup of advances and experiments from 19th century science including acoustic reach through water and air, dye production from coal tar, celluloid sheet making, Neptune’s diameter revisions, magnetic polarity in certain substances, fire engine tests, California gold dredging, and electric beacon trials. It notes economical air liquefaction, material choices for liquid air vessels, and nitrogen oxygen behavior during evaporation.
On Ballybunton in Treland the western coast sea weakens cliff rocks revealing iron pyrites and alum. Water oxidation heats the rocks causing weeks of burning like a volcano with smoke rising high. The piece ends with a reflection on surprise and ancestry.
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