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Newspaper
Toledo Chronicle
Location
Toledo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1875
Page
1
The bulletin reports cholera in Vienna and Turkey's reported murders in Bulgaria, Carlist captures near Santander, a balloon ascent with fatalities, riots in Glasgow, and political moves in Parliament. US reports include mining strikes, postal contractor investigations, and weather, with international notes on Uruguay and public policy debates.
The U S steamer Sonorac was ordered to Acapulco after the March 15 attack on a Protestant chapel. Six or eight attackers entered, three men and a woman were killed, eleven wounded. Henry Morris, a Boston barber, was among the dead. Rev H J Hutchinson fled to the California Hotel then sailed to San Francisco.
The U S Supreme Court in Washington affirms a lower court ruling in an estate life insurance case. The defense claimed policy issuance relied on false representations by the insured. The court held that disputed replies were immaterial to the risk and that no falsehood was intended. Earlier notes mention a Chamber proceeding.
A Bar ton County wedding on March 28 marks the first Mennonite ceremony in the area since arrival in the U S. Benjamin and Mary Unruh wed in a Russian customs ceremony observed on Easter Sunday. The groom, a Nebraska-based plowmaker, will farm land near here. the bride arrived from Russia last fall. The couple are described as highly prosperous and intelligent. A separate item recounts a Michigan Southern train swindle by three-card monte operators targeting passenger Bedell of Norwalk Ohio, who lost $1,400 and then $1,500, after being lured by marked cards and practiced cons during the journey toward Chicago.
A young man checked the rear car for the dealer, then three men reportedly left when the train slowed. The case is reported to police, but arrests seem unlikely. The piece ends with moral maxims from Rural New Yorker about self-respect and temperance.
A Castine, Maine family of five has a combined 410 years and an average age of eighty two. The matriarch Mary Hasty is ninety nine. daughter Mrs Goodwin seventy two. daughter Mrs Millikin sixty seven. husband Goodwin eighty seven. sister-in-law eighty five. All born in Castine and in excellent health, they run a dairy business and trace long life to good stock and a proper vocation.
A streetcar confrontation in St. Louis features a bell ringing by a lady passenger who insists the car stop at crossings. The driver argues two bell pulls mean go ahead, while the passenger refuses mud-filled detours and berates the driver, ending with a demand to stop and exit.
Dr ARLIDGE of Staffordshire denounces excessive tea drinking among working women as a narcotic poison harming digestion heart action and nerves. He warns hot water intake worsens nutrition and urges teetotal reformers to address this indulgence. Also notes the vast Hopkins estate settled at low cost and a Western sage’s view on three grits. Horace Greeley lent $16,000 in his final years to various parties whose returns are minimal.
A scatter of anecdotes cover divorce, fashion, education for blind children, an artist's exhibition, a bribery sting in Washington, and the Treasury notes. Also included are musings on bedbugs, pension fraud, witchcraft rumors, New York real estate jitters, and nail care etiquette with warnings about biting.
In Detroit a sharp prestidigitator used a simple deception. A sleepy shopper wrapped a thirty five dollar suit in brown paper and left with a similar bundle for later payment. Days later the clerk opened the rival bundle and found a ragged cast off suit. The trick swapped bundles of equal size, leaving both wrapped in matching paper.
Observations on nail care showing a spectrum from long pointed claws to short bitten tips, with styles ranging from polished artificial shapes to wild jagged edges. Dirt and slovenliness negate even the finest nails, while some exhibit round translucent nails with a delicate half moon.
A richly furnished Washington hotel parlor hosts a scribe and elegant women as a jeweled breastpin becomes the focus of a legendary tale. The emerald centerpiece threads scenes from Egyptian tombs to Parisian revolutions and the Franco‑Prussian era, linking Empress Eugenie, Count Montijo, and Louis Napoleon.
A Chicago schoolboy pinpoints the season's humor and memory through a stream of anecdotes. He recalls street scenes of energetic kids, a patient Uncle John with a sheep and a colt named Dick, and a playful reflection on springs in animals and furniture. The piece blends childlike wit with rural vignette, ending on a note of daily work and curiosity about the colt.
A boy hides in a stable and borrows a colt to ride to the pasture. The colt speeds through lanes, then toward a spring, causing a muddy tumble. After the wild ride, he faces amused family reactions and muses on spring traps and lessons from life. John Jones reflects on daily adventures as Prairie Farmer closes its piece.
In Aymer Ontario a seventeen year old girl named Popps dies after rescuing her little brother who fell through ice. She directs him to climb on her back, pushes under the ice and perishes, praised as noble and heroic by the Toronto Globe. Streets, crime report follows about a genteel woman named Smith who with accomplices bored through a warehouse wall in New York and stole thousands in silk and satin worth about 800000.
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