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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1878
Page
1
Extracts recount Henry M. Stanley's Africa travels with hardships, deser tions, famine, and battles. Readers see expedition woes, desertion efforts, African forge life, village skulls, and a humorous wedding anecdote from a clergyman's notebook.
Capt. Nysun recounts the 1877 Arctic expedition instructed to collect skins Esquimaux dogs and sledges. After wintering at Anautook and Keickertung islands the crew returned to Cumberland Gulf with skins and a whale skeleton, noting meteoric iron and new bird species.
Reports cover 1877 fires in Saxony with 1258 blazes destroying 054 houses and damaging 1756 more, hailstorm insurance growth in the West, St Paul Insurance paying for Minn crop damage, Maine beet sugar trials, a Portsmouth dockyard worker’s changing job, Langtry and Langtry-like gossip, breadstuffs exports from leading cities, King Hubert’s royal pageantry, a San Francisco sugar refiner buying Hawaiian land for cane, UK grain imports for 1877 78, boating at Williams College after Saratoga setback, a lesson on alarm during epidemics and a New Orleans woman misdiagnosed with yellow fever.
A family at a spring asks a child why water boils and whether God makes the fire. The mother explains God does it, and the man observes Humiboldt is unusually low for this season.
The 1840 woolen factory output stood at 20,670,000 dollars while 1870 figures reached 155,496,000 dollars. Excluded goods like worsted carpets and hosiery added another 43,762,000 dollars. This shows a dramatic expansion in the industry over three decades.
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