Cruelty and revolt at Sing Sing prison exposed
A Truth report quotes a released inmate detailing contract system abuses at Sing Sing. It describes paddling, overwork in the laundry, mental collapse, attempted suicides, and death, with named keepers and inmates and claims of corruption among contractors and staff.
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New York
Sing Sing
Truth
One Mahoney
Colonel Beatty
McCormick
Beckwith
B.V. Babbitt
Mahoney
Prison Association
Care of the Eyes in Reading and Writing
The piece urges readers and writers to protect eyesight with good light by day and proper artificial light by night. It notes engravers and machinists protect their eyes while many readers neglect warning signs, risking pain or loss of vision. It cites German experiments favoring yellow tinted paper and advises avoiding glare and twilight reading.
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Literary Journal
Tyre
Germany
Captain Wood recounts being bitten by whale and escaping
In a Nantucket tale from the Indianapolis Journal Captain Wood recalls a whale encounter. He describes the whale biting the boat and locking its mouth on him before he was expelled. He bears injuries yet survives aided by fellow captains and observers.
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Nantucket
Indianapolis
Captain Wood
Throwing a Family to the Wolves in a Fatal Escape
A Russian peasant near Moscow sacrificed his youngest child to wolves to delay pursuit and save his family. He then threw the remaining three children to the wolves, enabling himself and his wife to reach a village. The father was acquitted, judged to have the right to sacrifice his children when his life was at stake.
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Moscow
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