24 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1879
Page
1
BK Williams formerly served as Chief Tuette Supreme Court official is named to a new judicial post. The announcement references Williams’ career with the court and notes the formal advancement within the state judiciary.
New York report cites Times interview with Tilden disputing Field family scrutiny and Pelton defense. Meantime Cuba rebels cited. Spanish cruelty and massacres noted. dispatches cover U S politics, Cuban unrest, and European reactions with multiple named figures and places.
At a Holy Well in Ireland visitors arrive on St Somebody’s Day to seek cures from the water. A crowd of cripples kneel and drink while a priest reads as offerings and rag tied tokens decorate a stone altar. The wells attract gossip as well as faith, with ancient rituals echoing pagan roots.
In the central criminal court the American forgery case concludes Japgham is acquitted while Fortisque is convicted and sentenced to ten years penal servitude. Capetown dispatches report Cetshawyo seized with followers and plans to remove him by gunboat, with Wolseley delaying decisive action amid negotiations.
The governor of New York convenes an extraordinary term of the supreme court to hear cases involving the police commissioners. The London firm T. Stevenson & Sons, once a leading and renowned intermediary in the Australian trade, failed amid a prolonged downturn in business.
A whimsical collection of observations and quips about flies. The piece jokes on flies as authors and stage props, notes their ubiquity in restaurants and stores, and playfully links flies to culture, literature, and daily life.
A facetious young lodger at a hotel near Grand River avenue asks for a kiss at dinner. The serving girl roars with laughter, but the landlady kisses him as retaliation, chasing him from the room amid taunts. The tale, labeled true, illustrates that truth can be stranger than fiction.
An elderly passenger questions a conductor about graves seen from a passing train and scolds him for his ignorance after a brief exchange. The scene focuses on local travel life and a sharp social moment aboard a mid 19th century railroad.
Marshal MacNahon visits Count de Chambleord at Frohsdorff as chatter blends wit and travel. A quip ponders the difference between a well bred man and a confused mind while distant wheat surpluses and deficits are tallied alongside a Newcastle gentleman’s pledge to prevent Courtney from rowing against Elliott on waters named Tyne Thames or American.
A July incident at the New York customs house reveals a box claimed to hold the body of Albany resident William Carter Lattimer. Experts found a wax head and fake coffin contents, while a French letter from a supposed widow links to a $100,000 theft. Agents pursue the swindlers as the alleged trio sails for Europe. Privateers use a cane hook trick in bank thefts, one case yields $166, and a Milwaukee veterans reunion plus Chippewas of White Earth fair are noted for fall events.
A damaged ad promises a free cure for youth errors and nervous weakness. It claims a remedy discovered by a missionary in America and asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rev. Josten Inwan in New York to obtain the recipe.
Notice announces George B. Kirkham of Cache County Utah Territory seeks to prove up on a southwest quarter and a southeast quarter parcel. The notice lists witnesses John Cornish and Andrew Adamson of Franklin Utah and states the thirty day period to file proof. Signed by Joan B. Neil Register and Wm Bins attorney.
A list of numerous ailments is presented as offspring of dyspepsia including nervous debility epilepsy fever troubles paralysis spinal diseases and various complaints such as headache shoulder pain cough dizziness sour stomach eruptions bad taste and heart palpitations along with kidney region pain. Other painful symptoms are noted as produced by dyspepsia.
An advertisement-style claim for Helmbold's Bugle asserts it stimulates the liver bowels and kidneys cleansing impurities and imparting new life to the system with a single trial proving its value.
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