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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1876
Page
12
A Montclair minister faces gradual blindness and wrestles with faith and duty. After a doctor tells him the condition is incurable, he accepts the dark with resolve, continues guiding his flock, and dies seeing light beyond this world.
Two rumors claim the willow for willow-ware is imported from Europe at a total cost of six million dollars. The assertion highlights a large trade outlay and domestic reliance on European materials.
A vivid reminiscence recalls M. A. Shaffenberg Denver former Colorado marshal amid a legendary high stakes draw poker game. Rival McCook Browne and Chaffee join in a $25,000 pot as Shaffenberg misreads the bluff and loses big, then cashes out in a later solo showdown. The piece blends anecdote with moralizing quips about childhood and parenting.
An elderly man named Boggs tore up shingles on his home and disturbed a hornet nest. He fled the roof shouting for a ladder but a neighbor had borrowed it. Hornets stung him as neighbors misread his cries until a ladder was found. He is now laid up recovering from the ordeal.
A boy recalls parental mischief and discipline in a humorous, reflective sketch. He describes past acts such as harming a kitten, his mother's drowning of it, and his father's reaction to an anti-swearing club. The piece questions how a boy can know right from wrong.
In winter snow slides devastate Utah mining districts, especially Little Cottonwood and Alta City. After a warm spell avalanches bury towns, kill six in one gulch and collapse cabins as relief teams search. In all, thirty five lives were lost that winter, with buried miners freed when June’s thaw dissolved the snow. J. H. Beadle notes the Harpers Magazine account.
The New Bedford Mercury notes the Arctic whaling disaster dwarfs 1871 losses with nineteen vessels from this port abandoned and a $1,000,000 valuation at stake. It predicts higher whalebone prices due to reduced stock while oil markets may rise modestly.
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