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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1878
Page
1
In a October memory a young woman Clara Swartz recalls a perilous eve in the prairie. Eric Swartz’s sacrifice saves her from wolves and a dangerous stranger, ending in marriage and a heavy reckoning of sin and memory.
A long profile of Afam Goldie, a marksman from Shannon, Ireland, now in Texas, detailing his extraordinary rifle feats. It recounts a legendary duel with Bloody Bill across two miles of prairie, ending with Bill dead and Goldie wounded. The piece also condemns dishonesty in trade and urges integrity in business practices.
The piece argues that true business integrity is rare and often compromised by a drive for success and profit. It notes that prosperity can mask dishonest practices and that many associate with bad men while praising sharp bargaining as a sign of cleverness, highlighting widespread ethical erosion in commerce.
The St Paul Globe reports dexter and dasher the elks, about 500 pounds each and two years old, trained enough for women to drive. Captured near Rice River Dakota as fawns, they can pull a buggy at sixteen miles per hour and travel one hundred miles as easily as a horse team covers fifty.
The article catalogs European financials and anecdotes from Zurich to England, noting Zurich’s 600,000 for a Victor Meyer laboratory, wheat outputs in Linz and Bayonne thefts with a priest as confidant, cotton mill forecasts, Queen Victoria’s lavish carriage, and the late Admiral Seymoure widow’s residence at Tampton Court Palace. It also mentions Muscovite origins debate, Chatsworth estate size and beauty, Irving’s Sunnyside, and Irving’s long-standing staff, plus a pilgrim audience at the home.
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