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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1874
Page
3
The letter discusses emigrant decisions to seek new land, noting high travel costs but healthy climate, water, and land quality. It describes Sierra Nevada’s snow, Puget Sound area, and travel times. It shifts to Iceland’s thousandth anniversary celebration, Norse history, Danish rule, and social customs, highlighting flat social structure, lack of surnames, and naming practices.
A Doston firm recently wrote to a debtor twice with no reply. The debtor sent a check for the amount and interest by return mail, accompanied by a reply noting there is no lack of commercial courage but a lack of circulating funds locally.
The notorious horse thief De Lisle, once jailed in New Orleans for land and river horse theft, escapes and fights off police with savage strength. He is eventually subdued by a thousand onlookers after a lengthy pursuit, sustaining injuries as he is captured and placed in stocks. In Portland an apothecary tale ends in a misused antidote causing a dramatic stomach reaction. A suburban family loses a quiet morning as a girl alerts the church crowd to burning beans, prompting startled glares at the preacher’s grave sermon.
A man at a Detroit market consumed seventy five cents worth of meat in a display and declared at his outburst that he suffered an approaching fit that makes him wild and dangerous. He asked for police to be summoned to take him to the station to prevent harm.
Alfred Gerald of Providence asked George R. Whipple the hatter to sell him a lot on Sunday. Whipple complied as a favor, but Gerald refused payment arguing Sunday transactions are illegal. The case went to court where the debt was ultimately acknowledged and pursued. The note also mentions the Prince of Wales seeking Parliament funds to cover a trifling 000 shortfall to restart activities.
The speech by Col. Thomas Lardeman of Macon Georgia lauds Southern women for humility and strength shown during Confederate funerals in Atlanta. He compares them to willows by rivers of Babylon and praises their patriotism, self sacrifice, and enduring devotion as they honor fallen soldiers.
A fragmentary tale delights with rustic speech on marriage and courtship among freed people. It features a wary elder, a terrapin metaphor, and comic exchanges about license, consent, and the vow amid a curious blend of dialect and anecdote. A child narrator notes a boy’s wish to be a trustee due to family meals.
A traveler complimented a Texan farmer on the size of his spread, saying it must come from an early start. The farmer replied that he began life “when I was a more baby,” joking about starting young to amass wealth.
Paul Boynton is hired by a New York inventor to publicize a life saving dress. He plans to travel by outward bound steamer two hundred miles from land where a four man crew will assist with signal lights a dive and a twelve foot rake for retrieving rubber bag rations for one week. A North Carolina belle reportedly rode with a gentleman near Morgantown when his horse stumbled and leaped clearing a negro and mule, the horse causing chaos before the rider was saved. A social scene note mentions guests lingering over cigars coffee and after dinner talk as conversations drift with the digesting.
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