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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1872
Page
1
A fragmentary miscellaneous selection references a starless night and calm land scenes before a distant storm rumbles through the sea. The text evokes darkness silence and a shifting mood as a great blast approaches, ending with a maritime dreamlike tone.
A narrative recounts the Parisian Prussian duo James Vauler and M. Ernest who deceived Alexandria's elite. They feigned wealth, staged lavish hospitality, and shipped fake orders then fled after a massive fraud. The narrator, a former police inspector, helps track them to Beyrout and Cairo, captures Vauler, and sees Ernest sentenced to imprisonment later banished.
A giant mastodon named Nim is reported with fossil remains found across Michigan Gulf States and Iowa. Teeth were found in Michigan, terminal backbone fragments in the Gulf States, a new fore-foot in Iowa, and a possible tail in Patagonia.
A society of expatriated German Jews plans to settle in Inverness-shire Scotland, a move that shocks local Scotch society and stirs dissenter opinions.
Summary of appointments and elections in North Carolina Indiana and Louisiana. Reports on Boston fire damage and insurance fallout, stock and wool market effects, and related national dispatches with casualty, crime, and weather notes from November. Includes figures on losses, recoveries, and upcoming relief efforts.
A London dispatch notes the steamer Mauritius lost in the North Channel off Port Patrick with twenty three drowned. Reports from Berlin Stralsand and Madrid detail gale wrecks, ship losses, and political maneuvers. The Times criticizes jurists for procedural delays, urging swift punishment for crime and modernization of justice.
The article notes seven Assembly seats vacant in France and reports a Republican victory across six of seven departments. It highlights Thiers as victorius, Gambetta as a key figure, and argues the Republic may surpass the Empire, urging stability and praise for Thiers as Father of his country.
The examination suggests no long term change in rainfall or winter climate across the past centuries. Surface modifications from agriculture and drainage have not produced measurable meteorological effects. Cloudy weather and rain are driven by broad atmospheric trends, not local treeless land.
A warren from Ottawa relates a winter beaver trapping excursion near a pond. The narrator follows beaver trails, explains dam and food gathering behavior, and describes trapping, a beaver losing a leg, and a final eighty six pound beaver cooked in a pie with beeflike flavor.
An agricultural note urges farmers to shelter stock before cold weather. It warns neglected cattle suffer from exposure, stunted growth, and disease, while well housed animals require less feed. Advice covers bedding, dry straw, tight roofs, and stable repairs as winter approaches. It also notes a Washington City sewer project and brick cement needs for progress.
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