30 Jul 1889
Page 1
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Newspaper
Nanaimo Courier
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1889
Page
1
Columnic miscellany recounts playful reminiscences from local figures Dr Shaw and ventriloquist Potter at a toll gate, a humorous downtown scene with a man seeking death and police restraint, Gen Sherman at the theatre, a critic misnaming Verdi, and light vignettes from city hall meetings and residents across the area.
In police court before J. H. Planta and S. M. H. Howe seaman pleaded guilty to assaulting James McIntyre, part owner of the vessel Richard III. The judge adjourned the case to today to determine the defendant's sanity and light sentence was requested.
A compact roundup of Europe and America items notes Boulanger's crushing defeat in French elections, cyclone devastation in southern Hungary with rivers rising and bodies found, and varied items from London to Omaha and Dublin. Includes political arrests, railway plans, fires, and a cautionary health message on throat and lung disease with Boschee's German Syrup.
A mixed set of notes reports 75,000 monkey deaths in Brazil and monkey fur exports to London, a trained African gorilla following a trader for miles, a Kentucky grand jury witness about an ox left to die after being skinned, a blackbird at Charleston harbor catching and eating a live crab, greyhound prices at auction in London, a giant four winged Cochin rooster found in Duluth, and decorative acorns and portieres described as art in Madras muslin with evolving embroidery styles.
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