22 Nov 1879
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1879
Page
1
A publication notice outlines a probate matter in Lake City with party names and witnesses listed. The document names claimants and witnesses connected to the estate and directs them to appear by set deadlines.
From New York Tribune and Sun dispatches the era of Grant’s third term is debated. Reporters note names withheld and others named, amid rumors of anti Grant plots with canal company intrigue. Other items: mayor Corwell’s Colorado visit, Wise letter mystery, Sickles daughter elopement rumors, and a deadly tunnel explosion in California.
A collection of 19th century dispatches reports the steamer Canada colliding with the Westwich on the Thames, destroying the latter while Canada suffers no damage. Other items note Kirkcaldy linen mills resuming full time, Swiss threat to Vitenan, bullion withdrawals to America, Moscow and Athens reports on fleets and diplomacy, and a dramatic account of a cavalry farewell in Cheyenne with mixed racial tensions and tributes.
Extraordinary disclosures reveal a woman who for twenty years lived as a man named Edward De Lacy Evans, worked as a miner in Sandhurst, and married three women. She was admitted to Bendigo Hospital as a lunatic after insanity appeared. records cite multiple birth claims, contested birthplaces, and a complex lineage, with details of marriages in Ballarat and Melbourne and a box marked Edward De Lacy. Her present condition shows a masculine exterior with feminine features, and she reportedly has at least one child.
The article traces the vast size and expense of royal households from Louis XIV to Louis XVI, noting 12,000 to 15,000 people in royal service funded by the public purse, with pages costing 1,300 livres and a culture where display, rank, and lavish ceremony outweighed private finance and real business.
A firm from Storkholm is reported to have liabilities totaling 7,000,000 crowns in a cited port filing. The document outlines significant financial exposure and potential repercussions for stakeholders.
Fragmentary poem line reads like social critique with contrasts of wealth and confinement. Imagery of shadow and sun, fettered and fire, hints at enduring inequality. The readable text presents a stylized, incomplete stanza.
In Tantucket neighbors host a whimsical dime supper where each spoken word costs ten cents. Ladies devise tricks to trap guests while one mysterious man endures the quiz, consuming turkey and pie before finally writing a bold pledge on a slate.
An advertisement offers medicine at $1 per bottle delivered to any address and invites patients to request by letter. The notice asks for detailed personal information including name, address, county, state, nearest express office, age, sex, occupation, marital status, height, weight, health, and duration of illness.
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