04 Dec 1879
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Newspaper
Lebanon Weekly Pioneer
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1879
Page
1
A Kokomo Tribune fragment portrays a grieving woman in a decayed wedding setting. Her ornate hair and jewels frame a somber mirror image of a shadowy figure, a deceased groom whose fate haunts the living bride.
Mark Twain, replying to the toast Babies at a Grant banquet in Chicago, jokes that everyone has been a baby and mocks the idea that babies amount to nothing. He pictures future generations from cradles, including Farragut, an astronomer, a historian, and a president, shaping a growing republic.
A. B. Musser of Salamanca, ropemaker and Rochester visitor, inhaled a swallowed match fragment that lodged in his throat eight weeks earlier. He declined, lost weight rapidly, and died after seeking medical help in Rochester. Doctors attributed death to heart disease. locals blame the throat obstruction. Musser was known to State Line Railroad officials. Weather in Texas boosts cotton yields. second growth crops thrive amid warm spells. Leadville urges a preacher with offers of 5000 dollars yearly in mining stocks and grub stocks.
The Supreme Court rules that bonds and other debts have situs at the creditor's residence and may be taxed by the state of the owner's residence. Connecticut can tax notes secured by mortgages on Chicago real estate despite the bonds being kept there. The decision denies a tax avoidance claim and notes potential hardship for East Coast holders of West Coast mortgage notes.
Despatch from Mr. Keysman, U S Consul General in Berlin, reports a newly discovered embalming method. German authorities abandoned the patentees claim and publicized the process which preserves form color and flexibility of dead bodies for years. The formula combines alum salt salitre potash arsenic acid glycerine and methyric alcohol in precise proportions.
A Bangor prison warden recalls a young inmate who served five years and reformed brightening her appearance. She worked as a Portland dry goods saleswoman until a rich customer identified her past. The store owner, fearing loss of trade, discharged her to keep the patronage. Nearby in Logan Utah lightning struck a cheese factory, prompting a rapid evacuation as the storm fled.
A heated сатire denounces scientific analysis of tears and blushing, mockingly attacking researchers and their methods. The piece wanders through quips about blood vessels, fashion, and a sharp rebuke of modern lab work, ending with reflections on death as birth and spiritual renewal.
A brief fragment notes a comparison of friendship and love and mentions the name John Fray in a reflective, literary tone. The text presents a single idea without additional context or events.
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A Detroit Free Press report outlines a judiciary committee reform proposal for spellings used by the colored race. It lists examples from old to new spellings and notes adopted abbreviations, followed by remarks on the number nine and arithmetic quirks.
Professor Du Bois Peymond outlines a dire solar doom lecture, arguing that solar heat, the driver of Earth’s movement, will fade. He predicts the sun will cease emitting warmth in about seventeen million years, plunging Earth into cooling and advancing glaciers until life ends.
A Westchester visit yields a kitten divided among a mother two children and three year old Eddy who gets the tail while the head belongs to the mother and the body to the baby. The child protests as the cat complains in a humorous domestic anecdote from a lady contributor.
Medical students lure a live student into a fake corpse prank in Indianapolis. The bearer, unaware, crosses a canal with the bag before the victim discards it into the water. A rushed rescue could have caused a real death. The piece also notes a curious stat: one in nineteen people grasps a door knob when closing.
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