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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1888
Page
1
A poetic night scene contrasts with a bustling music lesson plot where Letty Whitaker teaches piano to Raymond Gibson as their bond deepens. He reveals his long affection, confessing plans for duets and marriage, while Letty processes surprise and joy in a genteel household setting.
A 2000-year-old mosaic fragment from a Carthaginian temple to Astarte is preserved in the National Museum in Washington. The seven foot square piece shows a yellow lion killing a horse with eyes teeth and blood rendered in stone. It is valued at $25 000.
Manuel Garcia was stopped by brigands in Mexico and robbed of thirty thousand dollars. They urged him to sing or be hurt. He sang with poor grace at first, angering him. The thieves, struck by his passion, applauded. They restored his clothes and part of the money, and he sailed for Paris afterward.
French savant M Levasseur points out that about two thirds of humanity occupy 4 256 000 square miles in three regions Western Central and Southern Europe Indian Empire and China proper with Manchuria and Japan. Populous areas cluster along major rivers and coasts while coal basins draw population and great cities exert magnetic gravitation.
The Detroit Free Press predicts yerba mate will gain popularity, describing it as aromatic and non intoxicating with tea like effects. Viscount d Absac, France Consul general in Paraguay, says the drink is universal along the Rio de la Plata, served hot in a bowl and drunk through a tube.
The piece recounts the 50th anniversary of Atlantic steamship lines from England to New York, recalling the Great Western built in Boston harbor and sailing from Bristol on April 5 1838 to New York April 23 18 days. It notes Cunard as promoter and the vessel as a sight, 212 feet long.
The Evansville Journal describes a bright day on the Ohio River near Mauckport when dark clouds gathered and a thunderous storm struck. A massive luminous object shot toward the steamer, resembling a sky rocket and leaving a smoky wake, startling the captain and passengers who recovered with visible fear.
Mrs. Lansing Gibson approves Miss Whittaker for Gen Eveive lessons. Letty Whittaker, a shy music teacher, is walked home by Raymond Gibson who praises her playing and expresses admiration for her. They reel through rain damp streets past Sadie Merritt as the courtship begins.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer describes regional dress in Northern Mexico noting peon women in scanty skirts and mantillas, better class women in lace or fine fabrics, and men in American or traditional attire. Ranchers wear short jackets, bell-bottom pants, and embroidered sombreros while zarapes fold over shoulders.
The Boston Transcript notes the steamer only briefly visited San Miguel and travelers missed Furnas with its famed hot springs and trout streams. Pineapples on the island wowed visitors, described as far superior to American fruit, leaving a mix of regret and delight in the tone.
A table lists ages of rulers and presidents from principal countries and the year each accession occurred. It presents a concise snapshot of leadership ages and transition years across nations.
An army officer recalls at Gettysburg reading a tree posted notice that mocked war casualties. The text parodies embalming and shipping bodies with prices, citing officers at full price and privates at half price, as a dark wartime joke.
Reports state at Sistrunks a shooting left one Black man dead and two Black men and a White man wounded after ambush fire while B Lee Jeffcoot, accused of selling whiskey to Black men, was struck in the head and wounded. Separately Albert Daas was crushed jumping from a dredge to a tug near Port Royal and drowned. Peter Watson, a Black man, drowned in the Catawba river at Fairfield county when a bateau capsized. a White man survived.
A tornado in Dacca India killed forty lions and injured about five hundred. floods rise on the upper Mississippi and tributaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota causing mischief. Embezzlement charges felonize Bucyrus Ohio city clerk W. Welsh. Drake county Ohio ex treasurer J S Simon sentenced to six years and a $48000 fine. Fire strikes Terre Haute Normal School causing $159000 loss. Hartland Kansas creditors fail with $100000 liabilities. Bristol Tennessee mills burn. Sholes brothers’ grocery empire faces three month term for oleomargarine. Two men duel with pocket knives near Birmingham Alabama. one fatally wounded.
Col Anderson reports Neal vanished while with Maude St. Pierre three years and ten months ago. Neal, once thought private secretary to St. Pierre, wandered off during a delirium tremens episode and was found dead a mile from his last sighting. The forged wealth claim and stalled checks mark the case as long unresolved.
Fire outbreaks in Owensboro Kentucky Bamberg Colorado Peoria Illinois East Cairo Kentucky Wheeling West Virginia and New Haven Connecticut destroyed blocks, roundhouses and breweries. Totals include property losses ranging from tens of thousands to 150000 with insurance coverage noted and suspected incendiary causes in at least one case.
The Richmond Herald recalls President Lincoln visiting Gen. Grant at City Point in 1864 and declining a staff suggestion to drink champagne to cure seasickness, noting his preference against seasickness remedies ashore.
A report notes that bumble bees in Borneo are claimed to possess stingers about one inch in length. The claim emphasizes unusually large size compared with typical bee stings.
Busy lawmakers report a flurry of moves. The President nominates Thomas T. Tunstall of Mobile to be consul at San Salvador. The Comptroller of Currency declares a 100 percent dividend for Metropolitan National Bank creditors. Union Pacific directors named include Frederick R. Coudert Franklin MacVeigh Alexander C. Haskell M. A. Hanna and James W. Savage. Senator Hampton suffers an accident while riding, breaking an artificial leg but expects quick recovery. Postmaster Mowry named disbursing agent for Charleston public building, compensation deemed small.
A joint meeting of the State Board of Agriculture and the trustees of North Carolina A and M College in Raleigh reviewed assets totaling 21 000 dollars with 8 300 tied up in the smashed State National Bank. The board plans a brick three story main agricultural building costing 30 000 dollars and directed immediate work by the executive committee.
The York Hope Un led by Captain Seymour sighted a horse headed sea creature about twenty feet long near Pearl Islands, twenty miles from Panama. It rose, dove, and was seen twice by the crew, described with unicorn horns, four fins, speckled skin, and a divided tail.
A Q engine from Western Indiana routes into Chicago encounters crowds at 47th and 40th streets. Charles Sommers fires on the crowd injuring James Boylan in the knee and fatally wounding Mike Welch in the groin, before police intercept and arrest Sommers.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania evangelist Sam Jones lectured to a religious audience. A morning paper harshly criticizes him calling his remarks coarse and sacrilegious and accuses him of drifting toward delirium tremens and low language. The piece urges Brother Gardner of the Lime Kiln Club to intervene.
A Japanese court holds a husband liable for his wife’s alleged gossip in a case highlighting family responsibility norms. The ruling underscores evolving social expectations and legal interpretations of marital duties in Japan.
Major William Z. Leitner secretary of state of South Carolina died suddenly at his Columbia home from heart paralysis. He was a Civil War veteran physician attended the body, and a large funeral with flags at half mast followed at Washington Street Methodist Church and Elmwood Cemetery.
A Kremlin Palace room holds an extraordinary jewel collection with crowns from Poland Kazan Georgia and others described as "crowns upon crowns" featuring vast diamonds pearls and rubies. The costliest crown ordered by Peter the Great for Catherine I bears 253 large flawless diamonds and the world’s finest ruby crest.
An umbrella brought from Holland in 1630 and shown in Albany bears an Italian maker’s name. While umbrellas were once thought late, evidence shows They were used by Egyptians 4000 years ago and depicted in wall paintings, including on vehicles.
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