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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1881
Page
2
A noisy, stylized monologue describes a young rascal in exaggerated dialect. The narrator mocks a boy’s antics and a meddling mother while recounting prankish acts and curious household scenes filled with comic mischief and misunderstandings.
In Brangley a shy curate Arthur Leslie resists a forbidden attraction to Flora Meldon while Flora's charm unsettles the squire’s nephew Gerald Warley. A tale of love, duty, and a repaired coat reveals hidden affections and a village moral debate.
An old man debates apocalyptic rumors with humor about the world’s end. He mentions a grand splash date shifting from last week to the twentieth and potentially next Saturday, then jokes about whether catastrophe would halt daily life and rail travel to Toronto.
Describes the condensed milk process from initial straining and heating to boiling in vacuum pans, then concentration and sugar addition. Explains sterilization aims, equipment details, and how sugar preserves the product for long storage.
First Lieutenant John G. Bourke reports from the Missouri division on a distant Maquis snake dance in northeastern Arizona. The procession features forty eight choristers and 24 attendants, with rattlesnakes carried in mouths and hands and swallowed decoctions to induce vomiting. The ritual ends with snakes released to the north south east and west amid corn meal cautions and prayers.
In Warrenton Virginia on August 19 a duel between lawyers Robert R. Campbell and James C. Scott resulted in a painful but not dangerous injury to one principal and the arrest of all participants. Seconds Alexander Hunter and Dash Scott aided the duel amid secrecy.
A Virginia couple arriving in Milton sought a license and began a ceremony with Squire Lewis. The bride Sally balked about marrying and the groom John urged her forward. The license was deemed issued, and the couple rode away on a horse after a hesitant, quick ceremony.
The surrender of Sitting Bull closes a legendary era in Indian history. Once a feared fighter, he eclipsed leaders like Billy Bowlegs as a strategist and diplomat. Beginning around 1869, he rose from a so called blanket Indian on the plains to a Sioux Napoleon in command and tactic.
The New York World London dispatch reports Dr C W Sieman of London claims electric light can make vegetation bloom as with sunlight. An experiment used a six horsepower engine and lamps of 400 candle power in glass houses. results varied with glass color and light quality. The cost is about twelve cents per night for 5000 candles and may enable year round growth if machinery worked this season.
A Detroit man showcases a thin colored horse at Woodward Avenue passenger depot. The horse tends to a nearby Lake Shore line train and behaves with animated distress. The owner quips the machine and cargo frighten it while the crowd laughs at the animal’s daring escapade.
Vanderbilt has spent 4,500 030 on a new residence described as palatial, nearly a year’s income for the project.
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