21 Jan 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1871
Page
1
This Appleton's Journal piece portrays a once-prominent doctor of laws from a eastern high institution who succumbs to liquor after a fall from grace. He travels abroad for years, returns to found a school, then loses balance and the venture collapses as booze wrecks his career and reputation. His name is Ben Blakely, now the town’s most miserable figure.
In Lily Lodge Hampstead Edith Winthrop fends off two suitors while torn between her guardian Mr Jeffery and a sailor Ned Gervayse. After Jeffery proposes, Edith discovers she loves Ned but Ned’s own confession triggers a tragic choice. Jeffery sacrifices to ensure Edith’s happiness, and she becomes Mrs Gervayse while Jeffery remains alone.
The London Times correspondent from Versailles writes of a calm after fierce bombardment. Paris suffers fuel shortages and famine with smallpox and typhus while shells fall on distant fronts. French troops endure, horses killed for food, and winter misery deepens as the siege tightens.
The V Y World reports a vast collapse of English aristocracy led by Lord Courtenay heir to the Devon line with debts of three and a half million dollars and no assets. His father, the Earl of Devon, endured years of quiet toil while the son chased racing and gambling. The piece notes public disdain, praises the Earl’s restraint, and mentions the Duke of Newcastle facing potential arrest over bankruptcy terms.
An Appletons' Journal account recounts Tai-ping rebels using a prisoner’s oil to make a torch that reveals hidden wealth by flame flicker. An imperial officer tests the tale by cooking the captive, then proves the method’s alleged efficacy with fatal curiosity.
A San Francisco correspondent argues climate in California has shifted since settlement with lower rainfall longer drier summers and more extreme heat and cold. He cites deforestation hill leveling and mining as key causes and warns of wider cattle disease impacts prompting potential state lockdowns or quarantines to protect herds.
The Philadelphia Press urges Spain to curb the civil list for King Amadeus and his heir, citing Spain's debt woes and royal allowances. It compares Spain with England and France, noting Queen Victoria and Napoleon III with their larger, wasteful expenditures and warns against extravagance.
The Times notes half a dozen New York dressmaking shops where men perform sewing unseen by clients. Hungarian Austrian and Polish workers earn 22 to 52 dollars weekly, with overtime up to 36 dollars, while male cutters average 25 dollars. Women in the same shops earn 9 to 12 dollars. The piece details workers, ages, and apprenticeships as it questions women’s shrinking labor sphere and raises concerns about gender roles in industry.
A 21 year old Baden native Louisa Fisher arrives in New York seeking her sister in Grant county. She is deceived by a hotel landlord and an accomplice then robbed of clothes money and valuables. After a perilous journey she is found injured in Lancaster and cared for while Sheriff Clise pursues the culprits.
The text explains that rain forms when highly saturated air from evaporation cools rapidly due to cold currents from above or latitudinal movement. As air rises and cools, its capacity to hold moisture decreases, causing condensation and cloud formation followed by rain.
The United States Surveying Corps fixes lake lengths with Superior at 325 miles Michigan 390 Huron 200 Erie 250 Ontario 180 The Duluth table shows Buffalo to St Paul rail 980 miles by water 880 miles A lake route with lower fares could attract large passenger traffic if through boats operate, with proposed rates of 20 to Duluth and 25 to St Paul and four day lake crossings.
A Fort Wayne woman collected alms by posing as a widow and orphan helper. After amassing funds she spent them on a bonnet at a milliner’s, drawing scrutiny from a skeptical donor. She defense claimed orphans could manage without bread but she needed the bonnet.
A Boston traveler recounts reuniting with two long separated brothers in New York after thirty three years. The tale also notes a California correspondent’s assertion of real gorillas or wild men seen near Grayson and in the mountains south of town, with a hunter describing an encounter with a hairy, two figure pair near his camp.
The Providence Herald reports that record oysters stock beds along the New England coast may be devastated by recent low tides and cold weather. With prices high for six years, many fear a widespread oyster shortage that will anger diners and threaten a cherished shellfish staple. The piece notes the oyster’s universal appeal from gourmands to invalids and calls for reflection on the tidal and temperature factors that could wipe out this favorite along the Sound and Providence Rivers.
A London company forms to supply Paris with provisions via an improved air ship claimed to navigate itself in any weather. Projectors say the craft will travel forty miles an hour with a fair wind and can be guided at will. respectable scientists appear to back the venture.
The article links Mrs Bardeil to Mrs Ann Ellis who ran an eating-house near Doctors' Commons and identifies several Dickens figures with real London persons. It cites Sergeant Bum us as the base for Sergeant Burfuz, Mr Justice Staveleigh as a caricature of Sir Stephen Gaselee, and Oliver Twist figures like Mr Fang reflecting Mr Laing. It also notes Dombey and Son likenesses, including Mr Dombey to Thomas Chapman and Captain Cuttle to David Mainland.
An English wit jokes about wanting the dog's account of a fierce dog incident after a clerical recount. The piece notes Chinese immigration fears and a circulated pamphlet claiming Christian spread would corrupt China, painting Christians as under wives' rule. The author mocks American men’s view of China.
A wide range of notes from Eli Potter’s raspberries to Alaska Russian departure, a San Francisco wrestling feature with a butcher and a bear, St Albans vestment limits, jail escape gossip, and ripples of industry from Australian preserved meat to California annexation talk. Names and places include Harrison county Indiana, Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, St Albans, New York, and Sitka Alaska.
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