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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1896
Page
2
A collage of local oddities and a sports tale mix with health notes and a rural humor piece. The Elmira Telegram snippet features a gambling dialogue about a deck of cards and a dealer, followed by a health note on eye condition statistics and handedness. A rural plumber joke rounds out the page, illustrating varied small items and quotes.
A veteran comedian J L Toole declines a request to recite after dinner with Edinburgh gentlemen. A spectator, praising theatrical knowledge, tells him to leave, saying they cannot please. The exchange appears in Household Words with a humorous aside about mispronounced powders.
Fragmentary notes describe a confrontation between Serres and Edge at Clover Row with references to west and Manchester. Names such as Gilbert L Pearre and Bichon Baird Pat Ne Ket Care appear amid garbled phrases.
The rosy granite obelisk by the Nile near Cairo is the oldest, erected around 2800 B C by Usertesen I. It stands about 60 feet above ground with its base buried by annual floods, surviving while the city of On has vanished. The article notes its role linked to ancient scholars and Egyptian sacred literature.
A Boston Transcript essay extols Hyde park in London as a verdant center of city life. It describes the park as a tranquil, humming sanctuary where the audible city becomes a varied, human symphony reflecting east and west voices and enduring struggle and progress.
A newly discovered Montana region near Lake McDonud on the Flathead and Teton county line promises grand scenery rivaling Yosemite. Explorers report a horseshoe basin with sapphire pools, towering walls, perpetual snow, and waterfalls hundreds of feet high. Avalanche-prone slopes and dramatic rock formations give the area names such as the Sphins and Cathedral Spires, while scientists forecast it becoming a celebrated resort with roads and rails.
The account highlights Andrew Jackson leading American forces at New Orleans with Creole companies under Plauche and Lafitte joining as two artillery units. It recounts the fierce left flank defense, the storming columns led by Gibbs and Keane, and the heroic acts of Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen, along with a young boy hero prisoner and Renni’s death, in a vivid Civil War era style overview.
Page reads like a vintage drug advertisement touting Hosteller’s Stomach Bitter to spark activity and relieve lethargy. It extols tonics for nerves, digestion, and malaria prevention, praising convalescence and long-term health while naming Pan-Tise and Breather Brea Drug Store as sellers.
A damaged OCR fragment references a tasking scene with a wishing book found, a chaplain offered a lengthy prayer, and a brief abrupt conclusion. Names like Captain Sweeney and a Calave variation appear beside garbled phrases and ad-like inserts.
Freight and passenger schedules outline departures after Sunday Oct 30 for routes via Baltimore Philadelphia New York and Cumberland to Way Stations and Washington with additional services to Harrisburg Harper's Ferry and Cincinnati including Lexington and Chicago connections. Arrivals list trains from Baltimore Washington St Louis Chicago and New York with times around 1120 AM 220 PM 456 PM and 620 PM plus Sunday variations.
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