25 Mar 1876
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1876
Page
1
A fragment from Herper's Weekly recounts Janet and Joe's farewell before a gate as a father watches. The scene depicts affection, relief, and a hopeful departure while awaiting what the future may hold.
In an Irish tale told by a boy named Dick, a trip to town with his surveyor father reveals an aging blunderbuss from a family of soldiers. On a moonlit bog road a grim encounter with a wary stranger tests courage, forcing the weapon to save a life without ever firing a shot.
A Chicago Journal item notes a pair of aristocratic ladies near the Arlington Hotel. Miss Coleman, once President Buchanan’s fiancé, is described as his lost love who kept him mostly out of society after a distant meeting. An early misunderstanding reportedly ended their relationship, leaving regrets the world never fully knows.
A digest covering Japan printing Arabic numerals with English names on cloth for peasants, Maine investing $990,000 in porgie factories, and fishery yields in 1875. It notes oyster bed yields dropping in 1878 from 1874, rising peat as fuel in Europe and North America, and peat’s potential when processed. Also mentions a Gloucester shoe maker’s hen with unusual laying and general fuel trends amid coal scarcity.
The 1869 survey by Gen John Newton led to a $750,000 effort to clear Hell Gate at Hallett's Point. A vast underground network of shafts, drifts, and blasting pits removed reefs to allow 26 foot ships into New York. Final blasts, totaling 40,000 pounds of nitro-glycerine, will be ignited by electricity linking all chambers. If completed, New York’s Centennial Fourth of July will feature a grand firecracker.
A northern Indian account describes elephants used to execute criminals. The condemned man is bound, tied to an elephant, and paraded through Baroda streets as the beast trampling and crushing ends his life or inflicts brutal torture before a final crushing.
A shoreline stone mansion near Lake Ontario, long rumored haunted, is explained by a north wind moving through a ruined chapel organ. An heir’s murder tale and odd noises spurred a resident to flee. workmen later uncover pipes used as floor props.
A Chicago Tribune item on humor among stock brokers details a counterfeit card titled Scale of Prices and a parade of slang for stocks. It notes brokers’ pranks, jokes about Cincinnati Portland Central railroad names, and nicknames for Union Pacific shares, with a final quip on a dinner plate pun.
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