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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1877
Page
6
A garbled OCR fragment describes vivid natural scenes and fantastical imagery including trees, branches, a coral sea, a winter sunset, and references to a village and an Afreet. The text reads like stray lines from a literary piece or decorative column.
No. 99 speeds a long freight along icy rails when a tramp, a former circus performer, is sheltered by engineer John Lathrop and his fireman. The tramp sacrifices himself to save Lathrop's son from a fatal plunge as the train tears toward a culvert. The boy is saved, and the stranger earns a lasting, grateful welcome from the family.
From the Borton Globe the Gray Marble monument in Greenfield Federal Street Cemetery bears a puzzling inscription John 2d with a date garbled by time. Locals wonder who oristoba 2d was and whether the deceased rests beneath or remains alive, while readers debate the family’s motive for the ill rendered stone.
A visitor at a private lunatic asylum encounters a troubled man claiming to be Alexander the Great, recalling a prior discussion where the man had identified himself as Paul. The scene blends surreal dialogue with the patient’s shifting identity.
A London Telegraph tribute marks Sir Titus Salt as a pivotal Yorkshire wool magnate who transformed a Liverpool alpaca find into a vast Saltaire empire. The article notes his philanthropy, town planning, and moral safeguards, portraying him as a transformative figure in English industry.
A newspaper admonishes readers not to trust the belief that ice from impure water is safe. It cites a Rye Beach hotel outbreak of fever and diarrhea traced to pond ice laced with mu and sawdust. After discarding the contaminated ice, sickness ceased. readers are urged to verify ice sources and avoid using unfit water for cooling.
An old saying about cures for disease frames a report on elephantiasis in Central and South America. It claims the remedy lies in eating the flesh of the turkey buzzard, a bird described as filthy, with witnesses recounting perilous explorations and radical dietary ideas amid harsh conditions.
The passage recalls debates on cures for a dire plague using carrion bird extracts, noting Panama and Carthagen as sources. It mentions an orthodox homeopathic view, and promises new arguments to those who oppose medicine, framing the issue as a public health controversy.
A Cork correspondent reports the gunboat Goshawk was sent to Gibraltar due to a forged Admiralty telegram. The vessel sailed with sixty three crew on a false order, later revealed as a hoax placed lives at risk by anonymous pranksters.
Hon. Gideon Welles contributed a Galaxy article detailing Abraham Lincoln’s ancestry. It traces Lincoln through the Winters and Boone lines to Berks County Pennsylvania, noting a connection through Lucy Winters Potter, Lincoln’s great aunt, and documenting a family path from 1728 immigrant William Winters to Lincoln’s forebears.
A Catekill area chair maker Ezekiel Eads is described as singularly deformed with no ears yet can hear via his mouth. His black hair shows gray spots forming tiny human shapes. He is fifty, has fourteen children, oldest thirty, youngest five, and another note mentions Yale’s class of 1878 graduate Wa hovtun becoming Professor of Literature in Japan at a large salary.
A collage of humorous vignettes and jokes from various voices. Anecdotes cover printers, duels, churchmen, a belligerent pugilist, a streetcar misread, and a Boston ad from 1808. Characters include a Dutch woman recalling Napoleon and a San Francisco clergyman.
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