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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1876
Page
6
Eliza Coo voices a moral on love and wealth cautioning against trusting gold over truth. The verse warns that wealth buys little lasting security and urges kindness, mercy, and deeds over idle talk, tying love to moral character rather than fortune.
A bachelor Charley Smith discovers a doppelganger, faces a police mix up, and wrestles with a mistaken identity scandal. His wife, calm and shrewd, keeps him steady as she reveals their long marriage and converts a near disaster into a shared joke over supper.
A Philadelphia letter from W B Wilcox traces the first American flag to the siege of Boston in July 1775 and its use in major Revolutionary battles. The writer urges raising the flag at Independence Hall on January 1 at noon with a thirteen-gun salute to mark the Centennial and honor early national history.
A Philadelphia Ledger report describes a man about forty five who rides ferries between Philadelphia and Gloucester and drops valued clothing books boots and cigars from a large paper package into the river. He claims the tide will carry them to those who need them and remains calm and unrestrained as crews attempt to recover items. He made a final ride aboard a canney on the down trip dispersing goods into the waves.
The Elmira Gazette reports the upcoming New York census will note a Oswego family led by Peter Moran with five single births and four pairs of twins born to age 24 and under two to three. Triplets appear in Onondaga with two boys and a girl at ten, and a four girl quartet at eight in Lockport. A Warrensburg boy named Frank weighs 118 pounds at census time.
Brooklyn residents held an anti elevated railway meeting complaining the scrapes of the rail would invade homes. An orator warned the tram would intrude on windows and morning routines with the chugging sound and heckling from passing cars.
A fragment from a historic page hints at Mae Bion and a discussion of ferryboats. The text mentions jumbled regard and a river urban setting framed by Beery.
The Zanesville Courier prints excerpts from a letter dated September 8 1776 from New York Home House at Hew Gary. The writer describes a long voyage a naval pursuit and a bloody battle with high casualties. He mentions captured officers exchanged prisoners fortifications and illness among troops. He also records deaths in his company and asks for iron ore shipments and furnace gear while vowing to beat a rival.
The New Haven Journal reports Policeman John Bengon died in Norwich at sixty eight after a three month tongue cancer caused by smoking. Swelling blocked eating and a tube fed semi liquid food, but in the last days the tube could not be inserted. Death was caused by starvation. he was remembered as manager of police at Willimantic camp meetings.
The 1876 convention schedule lists NH Republicans in Concord on January 5 and Texas Democrats in Galveston the same day. Texas Republicans gather in Houston January 12, with Republican National Committee meeting in Washington January 18 to set the national convention time and place. Indiana Democrats meet March 15, while an Indianapolis Indians convention is shown for March 15. the text also mentions a Cleveland area event and a noted figure later detained.
A fragmented verse from The Galaxy for January praising Love and beauty with imagery of white foam seas and blossoming seas. The lines evoke a celestial, immortal birth of love and beauty, blending sea imagery with rose tinted dawn and the idea of a newborn Love arising.
A collection of humorous notes and brief items: pianos taxed nowhere in the Shetland Islands yet no pianos exist. Rev. Natraanren Lapp a longtime New Hampshire Methodist minister dies at Tilton aged ninety. fashion obsesses over jewelry wear, but buttons remain costly. a Parisian tale of the Cadhemere shawl and the India camel's hair wrap. a statistician cites that out of 1.2 billion global inhabitants, over 1 billion use tobacco in some form, and tobacco history traced to pre-Columbian times. Quips about beef prices, Irish clarence, and a Milesian clerk. a sharp-edged cartoon about meat and fire. retail pamphlets in England tout American domestics as superior. Fontenelle enjoys second helpings in Paris. witty exchanges with Mr. Brougham. fish cleaning skills of a cued cook and a jelly-creating chef. a Chinese acrobat on a roller, and a bald man debating head hair giveaway. A Cincinnati anecdote explains a method for easing a sick man’s shirt removal. A boarding house dispute in Louisit addresses rent timing and legal obligations.
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