16 Apr 1856
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Newspaper
Peru Weekly News
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1856
Page
1
A fragmentary description recalls a thin elderly woman, stooped and walking with tottering feet. Her voice, once sweet, is harsh. hands withered and eyes robbed of joy reflect a life changed from boyhood to age.
A tale intertwines Miss Peyton Bremon, Copeland, and old Mr. Bremen as Annie Peyton engineers a union with Charles Copeland for character and fortune. The employer-employee romance unfolds with manipulation and moral undertones, ending in an arranged marriage and practical business alliance.
Annie at twenty seven remains single while offered matches pile up. Six years earlier a mysterious man named Charles Copeland arrives in Bremen’s counting room with letters of introduction from Migah Looms, signaling a pivotal turn in a complex romance.
A newspaper editor recalls an April fool incident involving a reader who claimed the book of Eatra has eleven chapters while the editor noted only ten chapters in the work. The exchange prompts reflection on folly and mistaken doctrine in a lighthearted tone.
An old English almanac recipe describes repairing china by mixing gum arabic and plaster of Paris into a paste. Edges are brushed and joined, yielding a fracture that will not reopen after three days. The paste whitewash adds value. Also notes on strawberry watering practices.
An OCR fragment describes farm and riding horses with weights from 12 to 13 cwt and 10 to 11 cwt. A heavy horse named yankerty weighed 18 cwt, listed among London’s heaviest. It mentions Barclay & Co., brewers, owning a horse weighing nearly a ton.
A Times note explains horses avoid flames and perish in conflagrations and describes a devised method to lead horses from a burning stable by harnessing them as if for work, allowing escape despite extreme danger. The account emphasizes the animals’ dread and the hazard posed by surrounding flames.
A bizarre report from Vienna and Berlin tells of a clerk who felt danger and found his newborn son in a frying pan after his wife, recently delivered, mistook the child for a goose during a fever fit. The father arrived to avert tragedy while the mother recovered.
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