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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1871
Page
1
Ben Fisher and his wife Kate share a quiet night at their cottage after a hard day’s work. They speak of family, farming plenty, and happiness, contrasting with neighbors who are less fortunate. A tearful kiss seals their affection as the moon shines.
Arthur Seaforth confronts his rival and a plot of murder tied to Squire Melville. Five years abroad bring wealth and a return home, where a hidden confession unravels a court case proving Arthur's presumed death was a frame. The trial ends Not Guilty and reconciles lovers Maud and Arthur.
A vivid 19th century account describes locust swarms in an East Indian cotton plantation. Native music and flags aided by branches deterred the invasion, saving the crop as swarms darkened skies, blanketed fields, and perched in banyan trees with immense numbers and brown snowlike dust in the air.
A lawyer known for brow beating witnesses pressed a man on the stand in an assault and battery case asking the precise distance to the parties when the incident occurred. The reply: four feet five inches and a half, explaining he measured it in anticipation of a question.
A couple in Ben Bow Marion County Missouri married on a dare after a midnight trip to Emerson four miles away. The bride and groom, facing prior engagements, now face a troubling sequel as their spouses await release from the unlikely union. The report notes the wedding was legal, the partners distressed, and a neighbor’s pending engagements add to the awkward consequences. Meanwhile a separate Paris surrender story follows, detailing German occupation and a three week armistice.
A newspaper paragraph describes a wordplay game from Work and Play. Participants pose animal and object riddles such as what has two wings and a backbone and answer bird, fish or snake, elephant, and coat. Readers are invited to answer four more questions.
The bear owned by Mr. Bowers, raised as a playmate for his son, killed the boy after growing savage. Failing to control it, the animal was chained, attacked the child when given candy, and the boy died from scalp injuries. The father offered a $100 prize for the bear.
Water is unusual among liquids in that it expands when freezing and becomes less dense than liquid water. This expansion causes ice to float and can crack containers when water freezes. The piece notes how freezing can break vessels and mentions practical experiments and methods to produce ice even in summer.
Enos J Hoopes an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad lost his life after a wreck. He stopped a fast freight train despite fatal injuries to his leg hip and foot tying his leg and sounding alarms to save others. He lingered through the night in agony before dying and was mourned by all who knew him. Germantown Telegraph Jan 11
Elijah Kellogg narrates in Oliver Optics Magazine a humorous doświadczenie where a renowned mathematician defies practical limits. On a Lewistown to Brunswick descent a two carriage setup fails as the professor learns, painfully, that horsepower depends on animal weight and four legs. The driver tests the load, the professor proclaims responsibility, and the mishap ends with a costly revelation of his miscalculation.
Dr. Sigerson in Bowdoin Scientific Review notes iron work air carries iron carbon and ash with some remains in lungs yet finds no healthier workers than metal tradesmen. One foundry case a young man with weak lungs and blood spitting suggests heat affects him. dust atmosphere not clearly harmful.
John Roberts known as the mountain hermit of the tri state Mount Washington area died after a ferocious rattlesnake bite at Boston Corners. He kept snakes on the mountain and had survived bites before but could not overcome the venom. He was over sixty and had lived alone since his wife’s death.
A long roundup of humorous anecdotes from Minnesota and elsewhere, noting verdicts and quips, a Catholic youth fund for the Pope, sparrow import ventures in Louisiana, a judge’s hard-edged wit, a theft of a printer’s thermometer, and civic curiosities. It also covers a sequoia display in Cincinnati, a giant California tree discovery, a burned recluse in Utica, and detailed 1870 railroad mileage and cost statistics across states and territories.
Official census returns compiled in Washington list district by district figures for states and territories. Totals show the United States population at 39,530,153 with district counts for districts including Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, and others.
Publisher R S Menamin offers three prizes including a solid silver composing stick and silver and bronze medals to the fastest type setters. Trials are May 10 1871 in each city with union officials and a printer referee, open to all union towns in the United States or Canada.
Oranges raised in Los Angeles County totaling 55,000 have been received in San Francisco. Prices range from 30 to 50 dollars per thousand, soon easing to 25 to 35. Last year’s shipments reached 2,466,000 with regional variations. California's citrus farming is poised as a major future industry.
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