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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1872
Page
1
A rural New Yorker fragment recounts a father describing a deadly farming accident. John’s iron hood and quick thinking saved his life after a cart collision, but his legs were badly injured and his mother mourns the cost.
A struggling widow, Mrs. Mulford, and her children endure poverty after a business collapse. Christmas unfolds as a turning point when Uncle Nathan arrives with unexpected aid and a fresh promise of family reunification, transforming a ruined life into renewed hope and shared joy.
A report details Adele Spitzeder of Munich, a second class actress and noted speculator, who lured investors with high interest loans and fake real estate gains. She opened the Catholic Savings Bank and a People’s Kitchen, attracting deposits of 5,000 to 10,000 daily, before a collapse left four million florins lost and accomplices shocked. The scheme collapsed as books were destroyed and capital moved elsewhere, with Munich’s losses totaling about 1.6 million dollars.
Amid a volatile Louisiana scene with Kellogg Legislature in session, Warmoth impeachment advances, Pinchback governs, and federal pressure grows. National notes report New Orleans protests, political maneuvers, and cabinet nominations while broader US events include court rulings, fires, and international turbulence.
A 19th century account describes Physostig beans from the Ohod Calabar region used by a West African tribe as a test for witchcraft. Eating the seed purportedly reveals innocence by causing vomiting, while guilt leads to death. The note links the practice to antiquity and Jewish history.
Cincinnati dispatch December 9 reports scaffolding in the new water works addition gave way afternoon collapse sending eight men down a seventy foot drop. four were killed and several others wounded including William Wolfbaum of Cincinnati.
A discourse on avoiding stimulants for highly excitable brains. Chronic neuralgia can be cured by ceasing tea and coffee or quitting smoking. Healthy brain work requires nourishment and rest, avoiding stimulation, to prevent nervous and cerebral diseases. Howard Glyndon and a Western stock breeder are cited as examples.
The article traces slate formation from mud to clay through weathering and oxidation, noting the mineral consistency with fine clay. It highlights ancient slate beds, especially Cambrian strata, with Laurentian layers in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Scotland, showing their great antiquity and rearrangement before Cambrian rock deposition.
The excerpt cites Max Muller noting a well educated Englishman uses about three to four thousand words in ordinary speech. It contrasts accurate thinkers who use a larger stock with eloquent speakers reaching ten thousand words, citing Milton and the Old Testament as examples of concise or expansive vocabularies.
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