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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1878
Page
2
An aged reflection on the passage of time and life’s fleeting moments. The speaker notes daily routines, love, dreams, and the rapid approach of fate as minutes and days slip away. The poem contrasts idle reverie with the need for purpose before the final reckoning.
The essay argues mutton is a durable, nutritious meat superior to beef and pork for digestion, with longer keeping quality and less waste. It claims country pork dominates when salt preserved, while mutton’s lighter bones and lower shrinkage favor its use, noting widespread poor quality due to lacking standardized production.
A satirical critique argues for strict limits on clotheslines left out after dark, calling it a serious nuisance and proposing legislation. The piece compares the issue to broader concerns about morality and education, citing a Rev. Dr. John Hall warning of societal perils.
A long quotation attributed to George Francis Train extols hard work, honesty, and self-reliance. It urges living within income, avoiding debt, and making steady progress piece by piece while warning against politics and overpromising. It also emphasizes resilience, caution, and personal energy as keys to success.
A banker named Fury near City Hall kept waking by a talking parrot in a lower-floor apartment. After failing to deter the nuisance with boot jacks and bottles, he used a fishing line and hook to kill the bird. The act was witnessed and Fury was arrested but ultimately acquitted.
A historical note on tears in madness argues that the insane rarely shed tears, with tears linked to recovery or emotional outbreaks in epilepsy. tears do not flow in dementia or melancholic states, suggesting crying is a rare relief for pent up feelings amid misery.
A New York reporter chasing a legendary long beard finds shoe maker rumor source Mr. Liemas Mcfurney who shows a three foot long beard under growth. He notes a beard may grow longer if worn under clothing and cites Mr. Charles of Jersey City as owner of the longest wind bowed beard in the United States.
A dramatic account describes a young woman who pursued a harmful substance for about a year. She initially improved, but headaches intensified and sleep vanished. Her mind weakened, and she ended in a prison of the living dead, Stovkten, described as a maniac.
The Troy Times laments editors’ endless grind and fragile hopes for lasting achievement. It compares fleeting articles to a June firefly, notes dust on leaves, and recalls Gibbon and Abelone as unattained standards. The piece condemns persistent labor without fruit and the perpetual windlass of thought.
A concise critique argues that long words mislead, while plain Saxon terms convey strength. It condemns pretentious diction among the educated and praises direct expression with short, everyday words.
The passage recalls a tale where Mary Wollstonecraft in agony uttered heaven as she found relief, prompting a cynical reply from Godwin noting she meant bodily sensations. The witty exchange highlights conflict between physical comfort and metaphysical belief in heaven.
A Bristol cortexpot describes a city straddling Tennessee and Virginia with two mayors and two governments. Main street marks the state line influencing daily life and odd events such as cross border weddings and fugitives crossing to dodge arrest. The article notes comic scenes and precarious law enforcement at the line.
The report shows that ratable annual value more than doubled over twenty years with £11,243,603 recorded in 1886 and £93,114,313 in 1876. Inhabitants numbered 340,085 in 1851 rising to 419,642 in 1871, while the City of London saw a drop in inhabited houses from 14,483 in 1851 to 9,235 in 1871.
A miscellany from a bygone period mixes a street barber with a long hawboo carrying an effigy and parlor gossip about parasols. The piece shifts to a comic scene of a dry goods clerk praising a parasol and a jittery weather detour into egg cooking, mouth breathing, and medical notes on respiration and hearing.
A fragmentary column recounts a cautious patient asking about gas effects after a tooth extraction, a note on the sun’s distance from Venus transit observations, a Troy inventor’s cataphone alarm idea, flour selection tips, Pondicherry medical notes, scratch removal tricks, and a Western lawyer’s flamboyant court remark.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Prof Ottoni, a Roman artist, showing Christ on the Cross in London. It references a Remagen crucifix drawing interest years earlier and mentions a mistaken claim about rapid thinking on trains. The text is garbled and hard to follow.
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