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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1892
Page
4
A fragmented report outlines electoral questions and party tallies ahead of a pivotal vote. It notes key figures including gubernatorial contenders and a blurred, sweeping forecast of candidate support across major parties. The piece highlights voter strength, party splits, and looming contests as campaigns intensify.
Fragmentary text notes an aim to win the pennant with references to teams and players. The readable parts mention Clute and a likely baseball context but lack clear actions or outcomes.
The piece surveys West and Mexico water scarcity and surplus myths, noting surface storage first, underground aquifers later, with artesian hopes debunked. It also discusses steel grain behavior in razors, a gold beetle curiosa in London, and a case of insolence toward magistrates in a racial tribunal, illustrating varied 19th century concerns.
A long extract describes Indian workers using their feet as well as hands across many trades. It notes the joint use of limbs in carpentry, shoemaking, metalwork, comb making, wood turning, leather tanning, butchery, and fruit climbing, with emphasis on foot and toe roles. It also discusses social concerns about drunkenness among English women and rising drunkenness in London, citing Dr Norman Kerr and coroners, and mentions proposed detention measures and medical approaches.
A warm afternoon set the scene as two children attempted a clever ruse with ten cent pieces. The plan involved a bank of dimes that could not be opened until fall, and a scheme to obtain forty nine ten cent coins from a bystander. The ruse collapsed when adults intervened and the girl and her brother left without the funds.
In a vivid note by W J D Leavitt the author recalls a spider nesting in the organ case above his head during performances. The arachnid stayed for a year, reappearing each time the music paused, acting as an unlikely audience member. The account, labeled as a youthful readers’ mystery, highlights the creature’s steady presence and unusual companionship.
The article surveys diverse facts from Alaska hop farming and Mexico coffee profits to whiskey water claims and the Prince of Wales imperial diamond. It notes Maine supplying Christmas trees to New York, a record length wire rope from Cardif Wells, and 162 carat diamond value. It references coffee tree yields and urban railroads, bells, and international port visits, concluding with an anti-coauthorist effort in Paris aimed at humane relief.
A garbled OCR passage mentions various places including Westminster Maryland and Richmond Indiana with stray phrases about hotels, sales taxes, meteor diamonds, a clothes washing contest, and earthquakes. No coherent event or single story is identifiable beyond scattered references to localities and miscellaneous topics.
A scrambled international roundup hints at myths and curiosities. It mentions a dwarf in Japan and a man in Ablens, Kansas who mails weekly requests for newspapers, while broader regional references touch on labor, religion, and science.
A garbled piece cites Gov. Piter of Illinois recalling his barefoot enlistment to Bloomington, Liberia’s minister, and a long list of scattered names. It notes William Reese, a pioneer and mill founder of Pennsylvania, dying at 102 in Bolivar, with a granite grave marker designed by General Grant. Also mentioned are Marian Harland, and the Khedive of Egypt, described as young and shrewd, allied with Egypt’s leading paper and the Chefaket order.
A New Orleans Picayune flavor piece mocks paradoxes about parsons tourists mining and lawmakers, riffing on wordplay about finance and fate. The quip-filled verse stacks puns on future trading, lovers, and unfinished business with light satire.
A garbled OCR fragment shows scattered phrases about crows, abbots, sliding, a brick yard, a button hole cutter, and a mechanic behind a livery stable. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear coherent facts or events. Entities are minimal and unreadable.
Fragmented OCR text presents terse musings on talk and thought, moral lessons from a bath, and social curiosities. It touches on gossip, wealth, teeth, and warning against vanity, with scattered phrases about Detroit Free Press and temptations. The passage remains obscure and fragmentary, offering glimpses rather than cohesive events or subjects.
A jumbled OCR style notice lists names and places such as Memington and Tamaqua and mentions a ration in effect September 1. It references Easton, Shamokin, and Harrisburg area towns, with scattered streets and rail notes. The fragment hints at a broad regional import or distribution program with multiple locales and dates, but exact actions remain unclear.
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