The Deaths of Chang and Eng Siamese Twins Cause and Aftermath
Mount Airy, N C reports on the deaths of Chang and Eng Siamese twins. Doctor Hollingsworth cites paralysis and illness in Chang and a mortal shock in Eng, while relatives dispute a direct vital connection through the ligament. Suspicion grows of profit motives behind postmortem plans and temporary interment.
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William Hollingsworth
Chang
Europe
Eng
Barry
William Hollings- Tohany
Hollingsworth
Greensboro
N. C
Mount Airy
Joe Hollingsworth
North
What Then Pilgrim Song Aims Toward Tomorrow
A fragmentary poem sequence asks what comes next in life and faith with four stanzas. It traces journeys of thirst, rest, struggle, and hope, moving from present hardship to divine reassurance through Tomorrow’s promised guidance and pardon. The verses yearn for solace, Christ’s nearness, and a light-filled future.
Inhuman Wretch Arrested for Child Murder in Circleville
A. J. Pettit of Williamsport, Ohio, is jailed after a court waived examination on charges of murdering his six year old son. Neighbors suspect the wife was murdered too. bones found on Pettit’s former farm confirm a grim pattern. He claims accidental death from a plank, with cremation to avoid trouble.
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A. J. Pettit
Williamsport
Pettit
Virginia
James Keys
Singing Turns Madman Back From Fury in Prison Cell
Burleigh reports a New York preacher who visits a Boston-area mad-house. The minister, chained to the floor to prevent harm, sings Our Home in Heaven as the furious patient calms, then requests more. The keeper notes safety in the hymn and cites Saul and David as the old parallel.
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Burleigh
New York
Boston Journal
Oae
Saul
David
A Strange Texas Steer With a Downward Horn
A Leavenworth Commercial report describes a Texas steer with a uniquely downturned horn that grew into its neck near the winspies. The horn healed after a past injury, with occasional irritation in hot months, and the animal had changed hands between a Texas drover and Nebraska interests over about three years. Speer’s Port Grape Wine is noted as a widely prescribed product by leading physicians.
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Texas
Nebraska
Leavenworth
Speer
Tribute to a mother's influence and a legal case in Philadelphia
The tribute to Hon. Thos H Benton recalls a mother's warnings against tobacco gambling and drinking shaping a long abstinence. A Philadelphia nisi prius case, Anne McGee vs E S Willing, centers on a servant blinded by a hammer incident and the judge's ruling on parental responsibility for a child's act.
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Hon. Thos. H. Benton
Sadge Sharswood
Philadelphia
Anne McGee
Abe Hela
Miss. McGee
Sharswood
Early Tales of Western Frontier Hardship and Odd Parables
Read fragments recounting 1828 settlers at the Illinois bluff foot, brutal first winter with deep snow, wolves and famine, deer and other game scarce, and a later thaw. Other notes mention a Massachusetts organ factory worker faking work, a rich petroleum inheritor, a charity party misfit, a New Bedford boast, a devil joke, and a call to cut the President’s salary.
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Illinois
Ohio
Galena
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