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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1877
Page
4
A garbled historical text depicts a courtroom setting with a witness questioned about authority and age. A jovial exchange follows about architects and builders, then a series of aphorisms on patience, learning, and truth, concluding with a political jab about a slogan and a speaker named Logan.
A florid, fragmentary meditation on widows, poets, and the social gaze. It driftes from a widow’s grace to portraits of historic figures, journalists, and a wartime moral about truth. Streams of literary anecdote mix with reflections on writing and reputation.
Fraudulent postage stamps are being washed and re imaged and circulated through drug stores shops and warehouses. Mrs Craig and Mrs Parker are linked to the scheme after stamps were used to pay for board and later admitted involvement. Police say many more people are likely involved as authorities intensify the investigation.
A curious tale recounts a bank cash balance error of £100 due to arithmetic, swiftly resolved by suspecting a consignment mix up of West Indies boxes. The telegraph, with urgency, ordered a weigh of the cargo revealing the wrongful surplus, saving time and voyage. Also noted is a London Scientist inquiry into bones, their uses from knife handles to manure, and bone dust demand, with Egyptian bones plunder and camel loads to Alexandria for bone products.
A garbled citizen question about why someone won’t work prompts a secondary echo about borrowing money and uncertainty about what the next president may know or do. The text shows disjointed phrases and unclear attribution.
A local craftsman, self taught, grapples with failed horseshoes as a granger offers a wager while the crowd waits. He hammers, bends, and finally presents a crooked “jiggoo,” claiming it as proof of skill amid a scene of fatigue and comic misfires. Nearby, a storm and stray lines of verse mingle with general weather and quips.
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