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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1872
Page
1
Poem envisions tomorrow as a radiant, springlike day that dispels today’s gloom. It promises renewal through repeated motifs of white snow, blooming May, singing birds, and freeing hope, portraying tomorrow as a regal, joyful force.
A veteran diver recalls family roots in diving, a wreck near Galleon Reef, and a brutal betrayal by his partner Briggs. He uncovers hidden treasure aboard a wrecked hulk, survives a murder attempt, and brings Briggs to justice. Turton funds the expedition, pays a reward, and the narrator reunites with Polly, marrying her after Christmas.
The 1658 Dutch ship Commissaries des Koning van der Heine sailed to the Indies and passed the Cape in October 1864 at age 294, as the Beggars of the Sea privateers earned renown. The Boston Daily Advertiser notes the whaler Rousseau, built 1802 in Philadelphia, undergoing repairs at New Bedford with planking removed and live oak timbers sound.
The Messoula Montana Pioneer reports the December 9 half sheet edition exhausted all stock as heavy snowfall paralyzed the town. The editor warns the next issue will be printed on gunny bags unless the snow stops.
The piece traces early care for the deaf and dumb from ancient laws to Christian charity, highlighting Bonnet and Dalgarno’s teaching methods, Heinicke’s school, and the American and German adoption of lip talking. It notes Hartford’s 1817 start under Gallaudet and Clerc, and cites Northampton’s rapid, lip based instruction advancing physiology, botany, and mental philosophy. The article closes with a Memphis shooting witness Perkins who refuses to testify, fearing perjury and jail, leading to his lifelong vow.
A Providence Journal correspondent notes fossil bird tracks in sandstone slabs of the Connecticut River Valley. Among fifty species identified, some tracks reach six feet with a seventeen inch footprint and a six foot stride. Discovered late 1830s, Hitchcock’s work spurred global finds of saurians, reptiles, and other footprints across many regions and countries.
In Kansas City last week a shaft boring drill penetrated a cave 44 feet deep before reaching rock beneath. The cave floor lies about 800 feet below the earth’s surface, marking a significant obstacle in the coal mine project.
Mr Joseph Sidebotham microscopically examined dust blown into a Birmingham railway carriage. He found iron fragments forming over half the weight, including fused dross, nails and spikes, with other components like glass, quartz, sand and coal dust. He suggests iron from rails and wheels dominates and jokes about magnetic railway spectacles.
In a speculative pulse on State Street broker Brisk rigs a corner in Canadian copper stock. He buys up shares, transfers many via a phantom Charles A Payne, while John Leighton and others watch the scheme unfold. Payne’s name appears in transfers. no one knows who he is, until the pattern exposes a hidden operator.
Brisk enters John Leighton’s office after hours and, amused by a clerk’s mispronunciation, mocks a boy named Charles A. Payne. The exchange exposes Brisk’s callous chatter and ends with Brisk hurrying away, having learned another stock trick.
Beecher argues recovery requires physical and nervous system restoration after mental strain. True piety includes honoring bodily laws, not just prayer or ascetic acts. Divine help aligns with natural human laws governing body mind and soul.
During the siege of Paris priests resisted shaving and many kept beards after peace. German professor Oertel argues shaving is a modern habit and cites ancient practice from Abraham to Moses. He notes Leo III sparked late antique shaving, with popes and rulers later pressured to be clean shaven.
The article describes straw footwear worn by both people and horses in Japan, a cloth upper shoe with a thick felt sole, and a wooden sandal with toe and heel corks kept on by a rope. It notes mud travel leaves two four inch impressions in the earth and comments on the odd tracks.
French Academy member M. Chauveau argues contagion stems from solid matter suspended by gases rather than dissolved virulence. He cites successful infections with corpuscles and failures with dissolved substances, noting airborne miasms are solid particles. Experiments used smallpox virus and epizootic typhus findings.
The text argues that biblical beauty relies on natural imagery from stars to lilies to illustrate moral and religious truths. It notes unity across diverse books, Bible’s portrayal of nature as a revelation of God, and quotes Jesus praising lilies and the grass in the field to affirm divine skill and beauty.
The article argues the theory that America was peopled from Asia via Aleutian Alaska gains support from a telegraphic report of two shipwrecked Japanese seamen reaching Idaho off the Alaskan coast. It notes the Japanese junk could fit earlier seafaring, cites a nine month voyage, starvations, and suggests survivors might have spread south to become ancestral Aztecs and Incas, a hypothesis aided by this incident.
A grab bag of curiosities and brief anecdotes from the era ranges from a gauge of water use by locomotives to a Vermont arrival of a ninety one year old traveler from Ireland. It notes marriages and marriages by self and a floor collapse during a funeral in Elmira, with quips about England’s royal line and local school stories.
Samuel Jones near New Amsterdam Harrison County reports draining a seventy acre lake uncovering an Indian camping ground with bear and deer bones Indian graves mussel shell coverings and various Indian implements. The find suggests a once large North American tribe inhabited the area offering archeologists valuable clues to aborigines of the region.
A historical article outlines three vaccination methods. The first uses multiple skin punctures with a grooved lancet to deliver lymph. The second applies a phlebotomy lancet with two or three shallow scratches. The third method involves vesication with three blisters and lymph injection after blister serum removal. Dr Richard Wilson favors the second method but warns against its use in the elderly or unhealthy patients due to inflammation and possible sloughing sores.
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