15 Dec 1881
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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1881
Page
1
In muddy terrain a small, old woman hunched over unmilled copper ore, moving with muscular vigor. She works forty years, claims moon changes trigger fits, and earns fourteen pence a day while facing harsh privation and social stigma.
A black Texas steer escaped from the East River quarters and galloped through East Thirty-second to Twenty-third Streets, dodging crowds, causing women to faint and drivers to struggle. Officers and residents fired from five minutes, lifting the animal onto a sidewalk where it was finally brought down after being shot and struck by a blowing leg injury.
The passage traces the origins and meanings of septicemia and related terms such as lapticemia and pymemia, noting how blood poisoning was linked to decomposed pus. It cites expert dispute, Virchow opposition, and adjustments in usage, with references to the New York Medical Record and Youth's Companion.
Reports to the Limekiln Club on the torpedo chicken lately invented in Mobile describe its mechanism and a comical reaction. The weapon explodes, a figure flees shouting, and a heated discussion ends with calls to suppress the invention, though some fear it may cultivate strange meat tastes. Separate notes mention a California magnate’s wife in Paris and ranchers in the Yellowstone valley turning to fruit and vines.
The St. Louis Republican reports a brutal season with temperatures peaking at 106.4 degrees on August 12, the hottest day of the summer, and only brief relief afterward. From June 28 to August 31 twelve days reached 100 or higher, twenty-four days were 85 or above, and thirty-three days were 90 or above, with total rainfall only 2.47 inches since June 19.
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