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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1870
Page
1
A poetic meditation on night, frost and change as year ends. The speaker laments love lost and isolation under a quiet December sky, contrasting earthly silence with bells that mark the year’s end and a glimmer of hope in enduring longing. Old and New.
In December, a bank accountant recounts a bitter night ride when two armed men attacked in a carriage on a return trip to the branch. A forged telegram from M spurred a wild chase uncovering Garstang’s role and a jewel theft tied to a servant. Garstang and his accomplice were captured, tried, and jailed for life. The servant died later, while the narrator resumed his post and reflects on the near catastrophe.
Henry Smith famed street vender known as the Razor Strop Man of Nassau Street rises from England after Waterloo to sell strops and preach temperance. His wit and cantankerous humor crowd crowds in New York and across the Union, making him a legend before war injuries slow him. He survives a Gettysburg wound and returns to promote temperance and trade, embodying stranded fortune and steadfast perseverance.
In Boston a citizen's yawn in front of a police officer led to his arrest and imprisonment while the officer received only a nominal fine. The Times notes concern over how far a quiet citizen can stretch or excess breath without provoking misconduct.
A famed railroad baggage master known as Bumps met a dramatic downfall after failing to move a massive trunk. The trunk’s stubborn lock and a failed axe led to a collapse of his career and health, culminating in a surgeon’s remarkable reconstruction of his victim’s face. The tale ends praising Dr. Wright and Dr. Rainey for saving a young woman’s appearance and health.
A Canton city tale tells how Dr Wright and Dr Rainey restored a young woman Lizzie Twincham once left homeless after a devastating ulceration mangled her nose and upper lip. The doctors rebuilt her face by freeing cheek flesh from the jaw bone and supplying a new upper lip, offering hope where despair ruled.
The account details Thackeray's refined yet failing stage presence as he prepared a flawless speech for a Manchester Free Library founding, only to break down mid- sentence. He calmly resumed, eliciting smiles as the audience understood the unfinished oration. The scene concludes with his mentor-like consolation and a famed vanity.
A New York tale follows Mr. Hufnagle who buys an Indian elephant to plow farms but fails to train him. After a chaotic staged escape, the elephant reappears on the same stable floor, then dies next morning amid suspicions linking the landlord and a barrel of rat poison.
A Mrs. Jones sued an administrator for medicines from a daughter who testified she could see through a patient’s skin and diagnose organs while in a clairvoyant state. The daughter claimed she could observe distant bodies and even solar systems. The jury returned a compromise verdict, $6 out of $123 sought, in a Portland Argus report dated December 10.
A reflection on Thurlow Weed’s early work ethic in New York as a model for success. The piece contrasts diligent, early rising pressmen earning livings with reckless youth chasing dissipation. It argues youth should pursue steady work, self-control, economy, and integrity to build character and lasting capital.
Albany Journal rebuts sentimentalism in a sailor tale about a waterlogged ship and nine starved men. It argues the mate’s whistle may be harsh but noble, while the captain’s refusal is cold, and praises steadfast restraint as the moral standard. The piece condemns excusing profanity by virtue of virtue and cites authorities on criticism.
A long column of brief items reports church deacons expelled in Elmira, tea from the Steamship China arriving in San Francisco, Miss Vinnie Ream’s Lincoln statue to go to Washington, 1,5000 divorce bills on file in Massachusetts Supreme Court, a giant kilogram wedding cake story, fashion notes, and anecdotes from Indiana, Chicago, Fort Dodge, Long Branch, and beyond. It covers crime, weddings, science, aviation, rail travel scams, and agricultural notes including forestry and irrigation experiments along the Kansas Pacific line. It also mentions a Virginia bedrock of mineral wealth in West Virginia and a dramatic list of oddities and local color.
A Social Science Association paper in Philadelphia estimates the U.S. population at about forty million with 33 percent earning income. It outlines 11 million vital workers across agriculturists, mechanics, laborers, and merchants, ships, railways, banking, and manufacturing. It notes a six billion eight hundred twenty five million dollar annual output and claims baseball caused twenty five deaths last season.
A Boston elopement ends in comic theft as a heiress aged eighteen is locked in by her father. The maid impersonates her, the duo flee toward Cambridge, aided by whiskey clues and a hidden moustache gag. The plot unravels when the would-be groom bolts from the scene.
A Greenville Alabama lesson on Morris grammar ends in a witty student line. The teen declares the cow is the noun standing for Mary because Mary milks the cow, revealing a humorous clash with pedantic parsing.
The Spanish Minister has paid 19700 dollars in gold to the government as damages from the Lloyd Aspin wall seizure. The settlement, referred to in the President’s Message, eases tensions that once threatened U S Spanish relations.
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