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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1895
Page
4
Corporal Lynch reports MacDuff has arrived with a note for the doctor as Leon Downey hurries in to say Mrs. Downey at Downey ranch is very ill. Troops remain vigilant near the veranda and garrison arms are close at hand as a messenger is sent to the captain.
In a tense frontier scene, Leon rides out at two in the morning to fetch medicine for Mrs. Downey, while Maj. Thornton and Capt. Foster monitor Apache threats near the Socorro valley. The young rider is aided by fellow troops, as a search party later discovers Ruckel wounded by Tonto arrows along the bluff.
A montage notes a Burns descendant living in poverty in Edinburg a violinist who plays an hour daily and other anecdotes. It cites Shakespearean lineage traced to Northampton Alice Griffyn of Braybrook and Powis royal descent. It mentions Sir Walter Besant a misnamed song claim Lady Beresford amid Europe’s clipping collection and Gladstone’s daily routine and a Paris suicide linked to a duelist era figure.
A Brussels artisan unveils a seven shot revolver firing every four seconds. In India 24,000 of 70,000 English soldiers are abstainers via the Army Temperance association. Kaiser Wilhelm reports a new uniform and Austria’s emperor elevates a general of Hungarian cavalry. An Italian officer tests a magazine rifle that fires 20 shots in two seconds at 400 yards. Frau von Treskow Radojewo bears fourteen sons with several fighting in 1866 and 1870 wars earning multiple awards. Signor Luigi di Borbone, Modena graduate, is named lieutenant in Italy with famous lineage through Aquila, Bomba, and Emperor Pedro II relations. his father married Marie Amelie Hamel of New York.
Blue ink originated in London and English steel pens sold for thirty shillings. Graphite replaces lead in pencils and emery powder polishes pens. Silver nitrate provides indelible ink. iridium and osmium alloys color gold pens. Quill pens used in England sourced from Germany and the Netherlands. From 1803 to 1812 metal nibs were tested and over two thousand U.S. patents issued for inks and pen manufacture. Printing ink blends linseed oil, resin, soap and lampblack.
Mme Sarah Grand becomes a recruit among foreign bicyclists as croquet regains charm in England. A Hungarian, Von Miles, sails from Vienna toward the Danube mouth while Hearne teaches cricket to Patiala Maharajah’s sons. The German emperor builds a private race track at Potsdam amid fevered bicycling. Lord Dunraven recalls his past as a fearless Life Guards steeplechaser.
Yarrow & Co. completed a torpedo destroyer for the Russian government with a speed of 30.25 knots. Forban, a French sea-going torpedo boat, reached 31 knots on trial at Havre. Goa in India rises in revolt prompting the dispatch of three men-of-war. A boom test at Chatham proves a defense for the Medway using timber balks and wire hawsers with five gunboats as supports.
Two characters Mrs Oldtimer and Josiah debate why yachta is put in a dry dock with a sharp joke about sobriety. Miranda and Judge tag along in a witty courtroom exchange. The line turns on the idea that enforcement of abstinence prevents drunken behavior aboard.
A mixed column lists items from a traveling Mexican in Italy presenting a rare 1822 Iturbide coin to Pope Leo XIII to a Newington New Hampshire bell by Paul Revere in 1804. It includes historical calendar notes and assorted aphorisms, with a humorous vignette about an overcareful innkeeper.
A collage of humorous snippets from 19th century papers includes Mrs. Squills complaining about bills, Dr Pillem arguing over opiate timing, and Mrs Gamp's bedside wit. Other jokes touch on dreams contraries, cake requests, and a child asking which ex-husband is her heavenly father.
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