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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1874
Page
2
A sensational tale slashes across Troy in June 1874 detailing Solomon Murch’s doomed feud with rival editors and the forged “death machine” plot that terrorizes the town. The comic gothic yarn blends gruesome imagery with sharp political scheming, ending as a moral plea against sensational journalism.
An Alivia girl from Tioga Virginia muses on the difference between God and her own John. She notes that rod made the world in nix duye and her uncle Jol has toiled two weeks on a single hen coop. The fragment hints at rural humor or domestic work amid a damaged text excerpt.
Mrs Dewberry, oddly deaf and forgetful, mistakes noises for burglars at their home. James Dewberry searches the house armed with a cane, falls into a coal bin, and chaos ensues until police intervene. Both end up drenched, cold, and humiliated as the night ends with the couple indoors and unscathed but shivering.
A fragmented column offers dated social advice on table manners, visiting etiquette, and decorative behavior. It wields humorous asides on butter, biscuits, washing, introductions, and gossip while weaving in aphorisms on happiness, honesty, and human nature from a bygone era.
Fragmentary quote from Lu Quad advises on consent, paring contracts, and courtship manners. It cautions guests to mind their behavior at church and during social gatherings, noting not to stare with an opera glass and to avoid crowding pockets during notes.
A recent train incident between Mt. Micasant and Burlington drew passengers’ attention as a little girl traveling with her parents spoke up when a man offered to take her home. She replied in a playful, evasive way about wanting to “save a little brother,” leaving her mother blushing and other passengers giggling.
A Macon paper reports a bizarre scene where two pets fought violently. One animal cried for order, then shouted Police, Police. An onlooker police officer arrived and halted the fight.
A bemused customer enters a butcher shop and, in uncertain terms, asks for a yard of pork. The shopkeeper asks a boy to provide three pig’s feet, hinting at a humorous misinterpretation of the request.
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