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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1866
Page
3
A damaged poem fragment describes a speaker observing warmth and care within a home. Vague lines mention fire, memory, a cup, and a parent bringing a baby to a breast, hinting at tenderness and intimate preparation for a plan. The text includes garbled spellings and abrupt imagery.
A witty bachelor recounts overheard tales from a friend and his wife who reveal the misery and mini-disasters of a winter honeymoon at Bolton Abbey and York. The pair advise avoiding the institution of a honeymoon and warn against sentimental myths of blissful marriage.
A collection of remarkable rescues and narrow escapes involving famous figures. Lords Clive and Luther, Augustine, Bacon, Cromwell, and Knox appear in anecdotes of death narrowly avoided or improbable survival. Instances include a monkey saving Cromwell, Luther’s near-miss, and Newton narrowly missing disaster, with vivid, anecdotal details.
A Caribio India Telegraph report describes a mass exorcism in which a 16 year old girl subjected to ritual torture and hair binding near a palmira tree. The priest allegedly severed a hair bundle and shed blood, expelling five demons before she later bathed and recovered consciousness. The nun eventually married the next day and returned home with her husband.
An extreme lightning strike devastates Hastbourne with coachman and butler killed, master severely wounded, and the owner's daughter narrowly escaping. Windows shatter, furniture torn, ceilings crack as the electric surge traverses the mansion, with the scene compared to Rohnenbach’s fires.
A Christmas custom in Norway features giving birds a festive dinner from corn atop a pole as peasant households prepare feeding stations. Separately, the Viceroy of Egypt donates a block of houses worth 200000s to the American mission at Cairo and grants missionaries railway passes and tax exemptions for religious journals and books.
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