17 Jun 1876
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1876
Page
1
A collage of curiosities and vignette stories including a folk verse on fishing and rum, Centennial exhibition notes on velvets flags and exports, stork migration myths, moonlit Rockaway voyage, a wittily brutal bull scene on a Connecticut rail line, and a Hartford Springfield railroad tale ending with a farmer's cheer.
In a Chicago saloon Buffler Ben the wild trapper of the great plains tells four dry goods clerks of his brutal past. He boasts of killing Indians and white men, displaying his rifle and a long wraparound tale while the bartender pockets a commission from the drinks.
The centennial programme outlines grand ceremonies on July 4, trials of harvesting machines in June and July, tillage implements in Sep and Oct, animal exhibits from Sep 1 to Nov 10, and poultry displays Oct 28 to Nov 10 with a main exhibition closing Nov 1. Various society meetings, regattas, international matches, and congresses are scheduled through September, including Knights Templar, Order of Good Templars, and International Medical Congress. A note mentions a floor collapse accident at a Nuneaton inn with no injuries, and a journey to North Africa beginning June 10 by Mr. Donald Mackenzie and ten companions.
A Puebla Chieftain writer relays a bizarre incident where telegraph operator O Keefe defends his house and office from an army of rats. He uses zinc sheets, stove pipe, and a cannon to fend them off while his wife, in a daring move, uses telegraph wire to trap the rodents. The couple discovers the rats stole a quarter of beef and their baby.
A Paris Times correspondent recounts Lesneur who swallowed a fork to prove a point about sword swallowing. The fork entered the stomach after a struggle, doctors initially feared death, then performed a cauterizing incision and extraction. The fork was black but intact and Lesneur is now out of danger.
Asa Fairbank died on the witness stand in the Court House at Providence last week. A poor man estranged from his daughters after a fortune of 900000 left largely to them. He fell, revived, and a daughter kissed him. he pushed her away saying he only wanted what was due him.
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