09 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1891
Page
1
A report from Silver City notes a prank affecting a physician and an individual named Sturgeon near the Post Office on Main Street in Hillsborough New Mexico. The incident details are limited in the fragment.
A battered six inch box unearthed near Stone Arabia Palatine reveals a long lost romance. Letters from British officer Captain Lowe to Alice Douglass describe betrothal and his death at Mohawk Valley during Johnsons raid. The locket portrait of a young woman accompanies a parchment note and a hunting scene.
A dispersed collection of curiosities and anecdotes. Tales describe moonshiners' underground distilleries with hidden caves and chimneys, a Broadway widow’s murder hoax scare, a Maine islander aged 75 who has never seen a horse, an Idaho editor’s perilous hiding, a Georgia editor-marries-tariff editorial moment, and various curiosities from lamp fashions to five newborns in France.
A chaotic journey on a Port Jervis bound train ends with a crying infant silenced by a box of sponge cake as a bemused old passenger asks the mother the child’s age. The incident, recounted by the New York Tribune, highlights a comic scene of travel disorder and improvised relief.
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