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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1886
Page
6
A brief, rough dialect fragment depicts someone recounting a moment when it was too late to lock the stable as the horse already disappeared. The speaker mentions a Lady Yawcob and a concern about missing the moment.
The Ringgold Light Artillery of Reading first offered its services to defend the capital. The narrator details covert plots by Confederate supporters, a bold ruse to deter attackers at the Capitol, and the swift mobilization of Pennsylvania troops to safeguard Washington. The story follows key moments around March and May events with Magruder and Gay cited.
The Earl of Tankerville fished the River Till with Stewart tackle using worms and found three tackles totaling nine hooks in the mouth of a single trout after successive bites. The incident illustrates that after a drought trout can be voracious though they are usually shy feeders.
An elderly fireman credited salt water with limiting a recent Atlantic City board walk fire. The blaze, surprising in scope, affected a lightly built frame structure and was contained mainly by hand buckets passed from adjacent buildings to men stationed nearby.
A Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette report recounts a Pennsylvania well near Pine Creek opposite a city that has flowed almost pure salt water for sixteen years at about 36,000 gallons daily. The salt water, containing chloride of sodium, once lifted gas into the air and swelled the adjacent brook before salt works extracted salt and bromine.
Tony B- a Central Iowa newspaper attache, died after a freight wreck in Southern Iowa. He dictated a 1500 word special to his paper as death approached, asking to tell his mother he did his duty and rushed the scoop over the wires. The crash killed a brakeman and injured others.
In a crowded South Brooklyn cobbler shop an elderly man repairs and sells second-hand shoes to sustain his family. He describes buying, refurbishing, and selling worn footwear, noting that many customers are poor and that heels and soles are rebuilt with cheaper leather, with prices from three quarters to one fifty and occasional two dollars for lightly worn items. The piece highlights the ossified urban trade and how multiple cobblers sustain themselves by mending old footwear.
The article surveys St Ursula’s Church in Cologne famed for relics of eleven thousand virgins. It notes legends of their martyrdom under Maximin or Attila, the eleventh century church built where Ursula fell, and skulls and thigh bones displayed in old sarcophagi and glass cases.
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