24 Jun 1875
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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1875
Page
1
A poem describing the yearly cycle from spring to autumn. It names the laborer and the maid, the cultivator and shepherdess, the harvester and gleaner, the orchard and vineyard, and ends with harvest and communal celebration. The verses celebrate seasonal labor and shared abundance.
Convicts from Sing Sing seized a freight engine on the Hudson River line and forced the engineer and fireman to yield. The engineer used a pump to flood the boiler, the switch at Tarrytown was opened to derail the engine, and a second cylinder head failure stopped the train before catastrophe. The convicts fled into the woods as the plan collapsed.
A man named Horter moves to Atlantic City buys oyster carts to line his garden beds. The oysters rot and stink until a neighbor committee discovers the shellfish curing the odor once buried. A second tale follows as a farmer’s cow is wrongly believed to be vicious until milking proves calm, teaching a comic city lesson.
A New York paper credits railroad officials and staff for the escape incident. The engineer calmed passengers and prevented further danger after convicts seized control, with Superintendent Touey acting quickly and decisively to apply a remedy.
The piece argues that nobility is not fixed by birth but by deeds and recounts the death of Sir Edward Sugden Lord of St Leonards. It notes his father was a barber and Sir Edward himself faced a barber accusation with calm, asserting enduring merit beyond bloodline.
A man whispered to a woman on a Detroit streetcar, she began to speak, he urged her to remain quiet, then she claimed he struck her with a stove handle and begged forgiveness as he collapsed. The scene prompted questions about violence and safety on transit.
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