11 May 1871
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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1871
Page
1
An essay condemns the endless chase for wealth and urges devotion, love, and time for reading. It contrasts the joyless galleys of profit with genuine family affection, then shifts to unrelated household how-to tips on butchery, sugar refining, dumplings, and laundry remedies.
French troops quell Algeria uprising while Union Pacific Railroad sells surplus stock to various buyers. Report notes Lenulon for New York involved in negotiations. Cited maritime incident describes revenue cutter Vigi lant seizing the British schooner Martha Ann near Eastport, Maine for alleged violations of the Onetting laws.
Hon. Joba N. Conyngham of Philadelphia was en route to take home his invalid son when he was run over and killed near Mignolls, Minnesota. Over eighteen thousand copies of German newspapers published here circulate in Germany.
A historical note outlines a method using a narrow paper strip marked into a hundred parts from neck to phial base. Milk from a cow is placed in a vertical position for twenty four hours to reveal the precise milk percentage by the creant space. It also mentions a warning about green gloves causing skin poisoning and a Paris garden museum nearly destroyed by Prussian shelling in January.
The British Empire houses 114 arch bishops and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, including four who retired and live in England. There are 19 Roman Catholic chaplains to the forces stationed worldwide. Jesuit writers who visited China in James I’s reign note using tea to stay alert for sermons and long confessions.
Fragmentary note from the Jasper Texas News Blog references Earl Fitzwilliam's Bank Colliery near Rotherham England. It says the mine caught fire a century ago and despite workers efforts, remains difficult to extinguish while yielding two or three crops annually. The text includes garbled figures and cites a large monetary amount in error.
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