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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1879
Page
1
A nature worshiper journeys through alpine imagery and sacred quiet. The speaker finds divinity in nature’s smiles and silent lakes, with echoes of salvation in cathedral stillness and the mountains' eternal calm. Scribner for May.
A retired officer recalls a mystery from Algeria during the campaigns after Abd el-Kader. Captain Pelissier confronts a deadly fever in his regiment while a dying trooper confesses fear of bewitched visions and a death-haunted home. Corporal Lagache offers cautious insight into witchcraft and strange mortality.
A French captain recalls a midnight interview in the North African desert with Corporal Lagache. Lagache conjures a circle and mystical power, a dire oath of betrayal, and a vanished man, leaving behind a martyr’s relic and a vanished soul that haunts their regiment.
A Paris correspondent relays Mark Twain recounting Roger Macpherson who carried a departed friend’s body to Wisconsin. A rogue depot swap exchanged the coffin for a rifle crate and a cheese provoked mad thoughts during a bitter night. The tale ends with the box’s grim reveal and Macpherson’s enduring sorrow.
A ruptured oil pipe from the Hudson river depot to Hunters Point on Long Island ignited, setting the East River ablaze for hours. Fire-boats and steamers fought the flames while stirring oil to contain the slick, with great spectacle observed from Ravenswood to Blackwell's Island and substantial property damage limited to fences and docks.
Nyack on the Hudson buzzes over a high and low life romance. James A Weeks, a handsome coachman and waiter for publisher Mr Pownsend, secretly married the daughter in Tappan late January. Weeks remained on duty, serving the bride during the honeymoon. The marriage only became known after village rumors formed a paragraph in a local paper.
Fashion notes describe a Paris influenced wardrobe with lace fichus crape, Canton crape bonnets and Leghorn hats. New York trends favor pleated sleeves, puffed outer sleeves and satin puffs. Striped bonnets and garniture of ribbons and flowers accompany varied straw hats and plaited flounces.
A March 19 1879 consular letter from Tangier Morocco details extreme famine and typhus deaths. It recalls gruesome scenes of starving locals and even eating the dead, with daily typhus cases in Tangier 30 to 40 and city mortality 200 to 260. European and Arab residents suffer, while superstition and improvised burial markets worsen conditions.
A young student delivers a brief temperance exhortation at a local pub school program. He argues even small voices can break the “great net” of intemperance, urging a cold water pledge to cut the threads of wine, beer, cider, rum, gin, and brandy and to act without delay.
New York’s Society for the Encouragement of Moderation proposes four pledges for members. They may take any or all: refrain from intoxicating drinks for twelve months, abstain during business hours, not to ask others to drink, and not to drink anything stronger than wine or beer.
A Atlantic Monthly note surveys origins of nursery rhymes, linking Little Jack Horner to The Pleasant History of Jack Horner. Foles of Gotham to fifteenth century plays. Pills to Purgatory Melancholy to 1719. The Three Blind Mice to 1600 Denteromoelia. There was a fraG lived in a Well to 1611 Moelisenata, tracing literary roots across centuries.
Treasury officials rejected part of a banking syndicate offer to take the entire refunding issue at a half per cent premium. A sixty day circular ends June 17 asking individuals to apply for certificates in amounts up to 100 dollars. Publicity will be pushed to place certificates with postmasters and trusted officers. About 35 million dollars in refunding certificates are expected to be sold. if not the bankers’ offer may be accepted for any remaining balance.
Germany plans a subterranean telegraph network within a year and a half connecting major cities by two diagonal main lines crossing in Berlin. Additional routes will link Silesia to Hamburg Cologne and Konigsburg to Ratibor, with a southern line near decisive routes. Berlin Halle cable tested.
An excerpt notes buzzards on the southern Virginia peninsula as abundant and tame under law protection. The article details their scavenger role, rapid refuse decomposition, swamp nesting in dense riverine thickets, nests in swamps, and birds seen sailing, rising, or perched along fences as travelers pass.
General Clif ford, Lord Chelmford’s second in command, in British Caffraria during the Quaffre war of 1846 8. He sat with one hand under him and felt a clammy touch. A puff adder lay beneath. With nerve, he kept still and pressed the snake down. He drew his deep knife, opened it with his teeth, and severed the cobra head from the body.
A roundup notes railroads near the Alleghenies ice production in Tennessee and Georgia fruit crops damaged by hail near Lisbon Maryland a 100 mile bicycle race winner in Cincinnati a gold bar from Augusta Georgia a Florida rice mill and annual Florida rice production policies in Baltimore Sunday law enforcement large cranberry farm yields Sackett's Marsh Wisconsin emigrant patterns and labor reforms in the era plus aviation hopes, burglar tricks, charity history data, Boston baseball salaries, Scribner's Monthly reach, Indian reservations, Austrian brewery age, Kansas emigration, Coney Island iron pier, and czar’s shift away from liberalism in Russia.
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