23 Dec 1886
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1886
Page
1
A reflective verse contrasts festive Christmas pomp with the plight of a barefoot child. The speaker recalls Mary and Jesus in humble surroundings and asks Christians to remember the poor as bells chime and homes glow with wealth and celebration.
A lengthy holiday sale notice lists a vast stock of Xmas cards Bibles prayer books hymn books dictionaries photo albums autograph albums music folios and many toy and hobby items. It promotes the largest stock of fancy papers and invites customers to compare prices while claiming not to undersell though often oversold. Subscriptions for magazines and newspapers are accepted.
A Christmas poem reflects on bells across the snow, memory, joy and pain interwoven with carols. It laments vanished voices though hopes for peace and patient love remain, echoing through starlight and holly.
Reports from St Louis dated December 23 detail a complete chain of evidence against counterfeiters Andrew Hunserford Charles Diekel and Sylvester Martin. Hidden in Holton Kansas, a full counterfeiting outfit was seized and the trio will be tried in federal court. Other dispatches note a deadly fire in Minnesota and a vast blaze in Oskaloosa Iowa destroying the post office and surrounding buildings with losses over 40 thousand dollars. In Georgia, arson reports rise as multiple incendiary fires strike Albany and a high school. Additional items describe a steamer driven onto the Galveston bar and a Chicago jewelry shop robbery using a red paper trick. Emigration of South Carolina families to Arkansas continues amid crop woes and political disenfranchisement concerns.
The telegraphy roundup reports Clarke county Virginia’s prohibitions winning by large margins. It notes Portemouth Jamestown and Buratoys training ships near Munroe warning the West Indies. Also covers French talk of dynama funding, rent protests in Albany and Brooklyn, a Brooklyn trial delay, census volume release, English fasting traveler Jacques, a Jersey City prize fight bust, a Toledo Kansas City rail wreck, Akron bank failures, and a potential lynching in Williamsburg Tennessee.
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