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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1881
Page
3
Historic New Year events in California and New Jersey mingle with violent crime outlines. Reports include a brutal outrage and lynching near Prosperity, a planned telegraph consolidation seeking approvals, and a New York court martial proceeding.
A sprawling digest notes volunteers leaving for Basutoland, passage of a Funding Bill with party division, reactions over Greece and the Porte, and various political and social happenings. Highlights include Ben Harrison elected U.S. Senator from Indiana, Dawes and Hawley chosen for Senate,騰 merchant and mining unrest, and notable marriages and corporate actions from London to New York.
George Davy killed a man at Waupaw Wisconsin. The jury sentenced him to three years in prison. He judged himself a murderer and collapsed under remorse, while another death and medical experts note sorrow as the cause of his passing.
The piece notes fearsing moneis in Paris with women who pose for painters and sculptors. It mentions pay ranging from 50 cents to 10 dollars, many models being Italian and about 145 have fallen into police hands, casting doubt on their morality as art subjects.
Two Adsir youths posed before a camera with pistols drawn as Pee Ae the artist counted. One pistol fired wounding the subject and damaging the camera negative. The incident serves as a warning to pistol braggers.
A Urbire boy in Washington Pennsylvania attempted a circus stunt with a 300 pound ball rolling downhill. He was thrown forward and crushed to death.
The Washington dispatch reports a heated interview between Roscoe Conkling and Frank Hiscock over Speakership backing. Conkling warns of loyalty tests, pledges support only to true stalwart Republicans, and vows action against what he calls the milk and water Ohio faction. He asserts the need to unite trusted allies to secure the next administration and defend party principles.
The Funding Bill passed by the House authorizes up to four hundred million dollars in 3 percent bonds redeemable after five years and certificates totaling two hundred million dollars in 10 and 20 dollar denominations redeemable within ten years, to refund the national debt with terms aligned to the 1870 act. The measure also allows 2 percent certificates redeemable after one year.
Foreign notes report severe storms across England and the Mediterranean. A Spanish river rose 24 feet while coal shipments and telegraph services faced disruption. Dover and Southend piers suffered damage with waves washing away concrete and drowning incidents. Court proceedings in Deauix on January 24 reference Sullivan and Sheridan.
A honeymoon couple stayed at the bride’s brother’s house in Kansas City. The groom secretly fell for his wife’s niece, secured her consent to elope, and left to continue the journey with her.
A New York Staats Zeitung correspondent argues the expanding railroad net shows growing political influence and monopoly. The piece warns against railroads becoming tyrants, absorbing production and profits, while praising their past contributions but urging vigilance and reform to prevent serpent-like power.
A dramatic prose piece compares alcohol to a skeleton haunting homes. It describes a pervasive, consuming menace that destroys families, steals joy, and brings poverty and misery, urging wives and mothers to guard against drink with love, virtue, and faith.
A collage of quips and observations runs through the Chronicle, noting quirks from Peru to Bloomington. Highlights include currency trivia, playful word usage, and social jests about figures like Edison, Tennyson, and Washington, with local curiosities on humor and manners.
A rhetoric urging women to wield kindness and welcome as weapons against oppression. The speaker envisions women using small acts of kindness to defeat a “terrible skeleton,” celebrate victory, and etch women’s triumphs and rights into history with a banner bearing Truth Virtue Love and Honor.
Local ad announces a closing out sale on clothing boots and winter goods to clear space for spring stock for the next 30 days. It also offers to buy good wheat at one dollar per bushel.
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A fragment notes that the Tors xstates of a great London companion have held for nearly 300 years and are exempt from ordinary landed property rules on the Emerald Isle. It claims tenants cause no trouble, leases imply fixed tenures, and asks why landlords do not follow the corporation.
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