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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1875
Page
3
Reports describe a mountain cave in Western North Carolina with a powerful seasonal air current that appears to breathe, pulling in carcasses in winter and expelling odors in summer. Local stock losses are blamed on the cave's shifting currents, while scientists have offered no explanation.
A humorous tale of a Michigan divorce case used to describe a restless husband who seeks to remarry his former wife after an intended second union falls apart. Competing rivals leap in as he tries to reclaim his first bonds, while a neighbor’s wife remains unwedded and a gruff neighbor condemns cheerful singing at church.
A well dressed man at French's Motel threatens and strikes his child with a knife, insisting the child is his father explains, the crowd disperses as the man reveals the child is a wooden doll by Sam Professor Crew the Vventerloquist. In Elizaville Kentucky an old burial plot reveals seventeen year preserved infant, the body unusually intact with waxy clothes and a gold pin. The case mentions disinterment by Charles J. Ficklin of Memphis for relocation to Flemidgebury cemetery.
A poor watchmaker Frederick Bilebumn in Paria believes his soul resides in a watch he invented. He has toiled twenty years on it and warns that if the watch stops his life ends. The device later slows and stops, leaving him bedridden and distressed. The piece then pivots to Chicago lamplighters and municipal pride, contrasting superstition with urban life.
A lighthearted column sketches a doctor patient exchange over food and manners, a gardener caught asleep, a card game quip with seventeen reasons, a risky dress mishap, a boots tale of a bank president, a romantic rebuff, and a Michigan township voting anecdote where a voter admits illiteracy and skepticism about women voting.
During a court session in Medicine Lodge Barbour County two roughs fought in the room where the judge presided. One fled behind the judge as the other struck with a chair. The judge urged the sheriff to intervene but the sheriff claimed there were not enough men to arrest either combatant. Later a young man visiting Washington women failed to bring his purse and borrowed a dollar with a joking repayment. An English visitor returned the dollar and displayed cut perfumery bottles claiming there is no scents.
The Boston Globe recounts Kala kava'a meeting with Dr Ayers at a Cherry-Pectoral factory. A humorous exchange occurs in the Vigor department as King Kalakaua jokes about head replenishment after Mr Ayers’s bald head prompts a laugh. Ayer gifts a bottle of Peatn ral for the king's cold.
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