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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1882
Page
6
Ex guard Joseph Wingfield recalls 1863 Libby Prison for prisoners crowded in and a secret potato theft scheme. Rats, candles, a drilled brick with nails and a rope pull to haul a potato stash and reveal the plot. A vivid Civil War prison anecdote with a witty escape plan.
A collage of oddities and brief legal notes from early newspapers. Items include estate values in Russia, a Boston firm giving art books with sales, a Philadelphia medal for a rat-throwing feat, a coroner's jury verdict on accidental chloroform death, a church tribunal in Missouri over a lap lesson, Venus embroideries deemed unfit at Mendocia church fair, and various colorful anecdotes about London hobgoblins, revival twins, Latin-named Virginia children, a mistaken wedding cake poison scare, a Memphis escape, Newark train delays, and a Boston bicycle zealous preacher.
On a cold Davenport day Aaron Carter, a raft man, helps a distressed boy and learns the child is Aaron Dunlap. Carter takes the boy to his mother, reuniting with a sister he last saw in 1862 during wartime. The chance meeting unfolds in a touching family reunion.
Philadelphia Times reports actor Robert McWade, long associated with Rip Van Winkle, has vanished. His wife and three children at 4105 Hutton St. face mounting debts as furniture is seized for rent. a $32 relief purse was raised at Chestnut Street Theater.
A Philadelphia wig maker notes Clara Louise Kellogg wears a yard long blonde wig for Marguerite costing 700 dollars, while stage wigs are usually cheap. Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle viela weighs under an ounce and sells for 150 with beard, Rose Wood paid 90, Ada Gilman 125, Marin Booth 100 and Fanny Davenport 265.
A fragment notes Ireland's bogs cover about a sixth of the country and hints at their value and uses. It mentions suitability for drainage, fuel, and agriculture but lacks concrete figures or dates.
Collated notes on prominent figures from U S history. Mrs Mackay, a Parisian widow, is linked to a Nevada miner. Stephen Decatur’s marriage reveals an illegitimate wife, unknown at the time. Don Cameron is tied to a Washington society. Collier Forney’s passing, Riggs fortune, Corcoran’s rise from shoemaker to Georgetown mayor. Mention of Corcoran courting Commodore Morris’s daughter and Gould’s plain family amid vast schemes.
The article argues that snake venom is an intensified form of ordinary saliva and that saliva can become venomous in humans. It cites deaths from bites of nonvenomous animals and even humans, noting agitation can impart poison-like properties. Pasteur is said to have cultivated human saliva toxins to mimic serpent venom in birds.
A Utica Observer note describes a young woman in a stylish large mushroom hat moving through the opera house. She removes the hat, hangs it on a chair, then places a worsted fascinator on her head, drawing amused smiles from neighbors.
Captain TI H Williams of Monongahela City Pa plans planting 10 000 walnuts in stages over 15 years with thinning harvesting cycles. The south holds about 460 000 square miles of timber, and a New York firm has contracted for 5 000 000 feet of ash walnut history and poplar across Madison Buncombe and Haywood counties North Carolina. Many western North Carolina trees are noted as large.
Pilot Point entrepreneur J F Rogers pursued a six week opossum hunt for sport and profit. He predicted a $10,000 return in ten years. Meat and pelts totaled $95, proceeds invested in calves grew to 12 then 100, now valued at about $4,000 after four years.
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