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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1878
Page
1
Fragmented poem-like prose depicts a restless dawn. Images of ringing bells, waking fear, and wary souls rising to face the day clash with dreams and despair. Refrains of hellish sounds and punctuality contrast with fearful sloth and the inevitability of labor.
A long tale of John Blythe and his namesake John Brand unfolds from charity to crime to cholera aid. The elder Blythe mentors a convict who rebuilds his life then, struck by tragedy, passes on wealth and a calling to help prisoners, a legacy that sustains many after their deaths.
A historical reader inquiry explains Green Turtles differ from land tortoises, noting their sea life, shell structure, long-distance habitation in warmer Atlantic waters, and common capture on shore during egg-laying. It covers diet, size range, market presence, and the egg-laying process with details on eggs and soup use.
A miscellany of brief notes covers varied topics from boots with pistol pockets and a flooded Pantheon to a Belfast plan for new markets from gas-wage profits. It notes a Correggio monument subscription, a La Pleche college mutiny, Humbert anti-royalist demonstrators in Carrara, and a study claiming wood pulp binds French government papers. Also mentions cyan colors via a 19th century color app, uniform oaths for German troops, a phosphorus issue in Bessemer converters, a 75-year-old farmer buying a coffin with a mausoleum block, Julia Smith’s appearance in Pittsfield, and plans for a Boston cooperative store with Josiah Quincy.
A narrator details how hunters cover sea turtles with sand using their flippers, then weigh down the spot to trap them. The turtles go still when flipped on their backs, becoming helpless until removed. New workers fear the flippers and sand showers during the struggle as they lift turtles into market-bound loads. The sea turtles are sent to Europe, with the leatherback and loggerhead species noted for shells and oil.
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