26 Aug 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1871
Page
1
A vivid compare and boast recounts an engine driver as a knightly hero. The driver guides a swift iron horse to defeat crime and ignorance, racing through rivers and skies, while cheerers hail his boldness and prowess. The piece extols speed, service to master, and triumphant progress over antique chivalry.
In 1815 Hunebourg fort near the Vosges holds out under Commandant Jean Pierre Noel who, defiant amid siege threats from Archduke John of Austria, orchestrates a cattle provisioning raid led by Sergeant Farges and Corporal Lombard. The faux occupation and a brief clash with Cossacks end with Noel’s witty reply and the fortress' stubborn refusal to surrender.
An 1663 invention by Octavio Mey in Lyons yields a glossing method for silk. The process uses two rollers, gum coating, and a heated tender tramway to dry mucilage, then repeated rolling to soften and brighten the fabric.
The Morning Post Paris correspondent recalls Sergeant Hoff the popular idol of Paris during the first siege. Once rumored dead or a spy, Hoff returns from captivity moody and uncommunicative, refuting spies and spy stories as Paris debates knee breeches and buckle fashions.
A defense of the U S Signal Service citing army discipline training at Fort Whipple Virginia the telegraph as a decisive warfare tool and its value for commerce. It compares the system to a regiment on drill with Myer as chief and notes rapid reliable reporting from stations and the benefits of printing telegraph instruments over handwriting.
Calcutta cor London Times describes a critical, orderly view of the Juggernaut festival. The writer notes amusements, parched rice food, and rare readings from Valmiki. He contrasts Hindoo morality with English fairs, cites caste as the great social issue, and suggests change could shift perceptions to missionaries.
The Northwest sees rapid town expansion along Chicago and Northwestern and Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis lines as railroads open rich farmland in Minnesota and the Red River Otter tail region. Immigrants arrive, ports fill, and Ohio Valley mines push new markets. rail expansion drives prosperity and new centers of trade across the region.
A new London project aims to form a colliery insurance company with a £1,000,000 capital in £10 shares, half call, to insure owners and lessees against explosions or fires, insure individual interests when a colliery is not insured, and provide for widows and dependents of killed workers. With 3,000 collieries and 300,000+ workers, accidents are common. 1,609 die yearly. The plan has attracted considerable capital interest and share applications exceed the issue.
John Robinson and his wife sue Forepaugh and his circus for 43,800 alleging breach of contract over Cordelia Juldick apprenticed to them in 1868. She ran away January 20 and joined Forepaugh January 27, with Complainants seeking damages for 21 weeks of services valued at 14,000 plus 2,000 expended and triple damages.
In Georgetown South Carolina an English adjutant Crookshanks wins a rebel innkeeper’s daughter and is saved from execution by her defense. A thirteen year old saves a lieutenant colonel. A dog aids Captain Gregg after a siege ambush, leading rescuers to his side and his survival.
A correspondent surveys the Iowa Penitentiary noting many inmates are young men often from respectable families drawn into crime by drink and criminal networks. He records habits of 260 convicts, finding 219 had drunk, 109 attributed imprisonment to liquor, and 21 abstainers mostly in for minor crimes. The piece also lists miscellaneous items from the era.
A writer in Borneo reports the famed upas tree is not the deadly barren fixture of legend. Instead the site is lush with grass and flowers, vines wrap the trunk, and locals bury the dead nearby. The article notes the mythic reputation, yet acknowledges the tree's impressive natural form.
A Hamilton Spectator note describes a new insect called the pestilence fly seen in quantity in Canada. Nearly as large as a house fly the jet black insect with yellow striped underparts is found among common flies and is notable for its short rounded wings. The report questions any immediate pestilence link and waits for more evidence before alarm.
A compact reflection on human error highlights the danger of judging others by personal standards and seeking universal agreement. It urges accepting varied opinions, tempering desires for youth to conform, and alleviating needs where possible while recognizing limits of understanding and the finite nature of knowledge. The piece cautions against living solely for time, noting any moment could begin eternity.
In the week following the Chi river purification and the diversion of its waters into the Illinois, Chicago recorded a drop in deaths by 119 cases, signaling health improvements and a potential link to the river project.
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