29 Jul 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1871
Page
1
A speaker consoles a desolate heart with echoes of a lost youth and a love that saw beauty in the beloved. Time may dull appearances, yet the dead lover remembered fondly will continue to love and cherish the face once found fair.
In Jimtown a crowd gathers for the sale of a corner brick store. Big Medicine, a tall stranger with green spectacles, outbids rivals amid village gossip and a budding romance with Carrie Golding. Golding and Carrie depart for Cincinnati after a windfall, leaving Big Medicine to drift away alone as the corner brick prospers.
The New York Times essay envisions future inventions to reduce domestic drudgery. It highlights a dishwashing machine, kerosene odor eliminator, and a smoke free combustion device as highly desirable. It notes vast opportunity and profitable incentive for inventors in these fields.
The first locomotive for a narrow gauge three feet rail in the United States was completed at Baldwin Works in Philadelphia for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. It weighs 25 300 pounds, carries 500 gallons of water and about 1.5 tons of coal, with six wheels and a three foot gauge. The article compares gauges worldwide, noting Festiniog Railway’s two feet gauge and India’s adoption of three feet three inches after debate.
Lord Seaforth born deaf and mute was to dine with Lord Melville. A talking-by-fingers guest joined the drawing room and began a conversation with Lord Guilford believing him to be Seaforth. After ten minutes the reveal came and the slip was laughed off.
Treatise discusses Chinese in California, their labor roles in cities and mining, crime allegations, social quarters, and anti coolie labor sentiments. It covers miner taxes, laws from 1855 58 60 62, court cases on Chinese testimony, Gov Bigler’s 1852 proposals, and the impact on Pacific Railroad labor.
A discussion from Good Health argues that midlife men with nervous complaints may worsen without adequate meals and rest. It notes early rising, minimal midday eating, and reliance on holidays to rebuild strength, citing clergy as another at risk group and urging a nutritionally generous diet for nervous conditions.
A soda lake near Independence Rock measures about one and a half miles in circumference and could yield at least sixty thousand tuns of soda annually at two dollars per tun or less. Freight to rail at twelve dollars per tun. lake fed by springs from granite bedrock rich in soda feldspar. Located sixty five miles from Rawlings on the Union Pacific, the find suggests more deposits across the state as the railroad expands.
In 1854 a musician Mr Best cared for a severely retarded girl in his home against doctors calls for asylum. Through prayer and music he guided her from silence to speech and skill, two years transforming her from brute to child capable of sowing and knitting. His work sparked debate on establishing an asylum and funded care.
Dr. J B Honpen describes red coral and related gorgonia on the Florida reef. The piece explains polyps, lime crusts, and the black coral variety used in jewelry, noting similarities to horn and hoof material and comparing reef growth to tree roots.
The Boston Daily Globe notes that early switches were made in Central Falls Rhode Island by a mill worker. A Providence firm later formed as the Japan Switch Company producing largely. Prices fell from seven to nine dollars to a few tens of cents as production expanded.
A New York Sun report notes a rapid wool price surge over six to eight weeks with Mexican, Cape, Australian wools rising from 18–64 cents a pound and carpet yarns jumping to 60 cents. Trade activity soars as mills run full, and speculation grows amid multiple causal factors.
A half Apache half French girl in Western Texas shoots Chandos, the English lover of another woman, as he writes a farewell note to his betrothed Miss Wilson. She is arrested, confined, then aided by friends and flees into the wilderness with her mother’s wild herd.
A rural Indiana passenger on a Chicago train leaned his head out a window and struck another car, leaving him with early bald patches.
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