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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1871
Page
1
The poem-like tale set at Taggarts Hall in Gilgal tells of Tom Taggart serving a whisky skin that triggers a deadly duel. Colonel Blond and Judge Phinn clash with knife and bowie, spilling blood and multiple deaths, ending with the line asking who claimed the whisky shin as winter bears on.
The article argues for new Pacific railroads with Central Pacific and Union Pacific bonds trading near par. It asserts that two lines will not compete directly, cites 1870 local traffic earnings, and urges support for Northern Pacific. It highlights favorable climate,资源 and potential population growth in the Northwest.
The article discusses the promise of the Northern Pacific and western expansion, then shifts to Dr. Dalton's warning on bogus wines and adulterated beverages. It exposes fake wine practices, counterfeit brands, and adulterants, plus a survey of alcohol types and common tints. It ends with a профiled study ranking life productivity by age across eight hundred eminent figures, naming decades from brazen to wooden.
A dated portrait of immigrant miners classed as Irish Germans and Cornish. The Irish miner is bold and generous yet volatile in conflict. the German is industrious, quiet, patriotic, and naturalized, marrying young and often musical. The Cornish miner is skilled, quiet but headstrong, well dressed, clanish, and likes social drinking, women, and stories.
The Chicago Republican recalls the learned murderer Ruoff and the English clergyman Dr William Dodd, hung for forging a 420,000 bond on Lord Chesterfield in 1777. Dodd, a man of letters, delivered a sermon to convicts before execution, with Johnson allegedly editing it.
A College Courant writer analyzes the ages at which great men produced their best work. Using eight hundred names across nations, the study averages the period of peak mental achievement, tracing a spectrum of notable milestones and prolific output.
A short sermon remarks on nine men at a door who all want to sugar their drinks with self deception. It critiques liquor and vice and notes people justify weakness with ceremony and selfishness. The preacher warns of a future judgment where sugar at the door will be replaced by poison lead, naming Conscence Dodger as a symbol.
The Rev Joy Bishop of Abilene Kansas described a stark yearly accounting by workers. A mechanic farmer carpenter and distiller each report a thousand dollars earned. The farmer cites honest produce, the carpenter sturdy homes, while the whisky dealer claims hardship to justify his gain.
The passage contrasts a craftsman who built up a town with a whisky seller’s critique, then discusses population growth in birds, citing natural selection theories. It notes the Brooklyn Eagle on newspaper labor, and ends promoting Hoofland’s German Tonic as restorative, with a 590 dollar catarrh reward.
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