12 Nov 1870
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1870
Page
1
A reflective poem from Scribner's Monthly speaks of silent endurance amid grief and tyranny. The speaker urges restraint and listening while promise and memory linger, as nature and the unseen future offer solace despite present sorrow and misfortune. The verse contrasts weary hearts with a foreseen day of renewal yet to come.
A frightening tale from Shackleton Moor follows Tom Chuff, a brutal poacher and drunkard, whose vision of judgment alters his life briefly. After a night of fear, repentance, and a dreamlike voyage, he returns to old ways and dies in a churchyard grave, his death staged by fate and his own estranged kin.
A Kansas City railroad depot project valued at 750000 dollars is planned amid a batch of diverse notes from the era, including reports of illicit stills in Brooklyn and frontier expansion into the Cherokee Nation. The item pool also mentions turkey coops from hoop skirts and a quip about a boy's wit.
The piece contrasts Spanish warm funeral celebrations with Greek dawn processions and stark northern Eskimo snow houses and African burying customs. It notes habit shapes each culture's response to death and the solitary final breath or collective farewell.
The New York Stock Exchange contributed 25000 dollars the Gold Exchange 10000 dollars and merchants and brokers about 15000 dollars toward the relief fund for Valley of Virginia flood sufferers.
A crafty fairy figure in a fairy tale grants wishes with a crooked wand. Dame Two-sticks, waking in a bad mood, twists desires into dire outcomes for the lazy, greedy, and cruel, from a sea deserter to a ghoulish betrothal and a gold dust fiasco, ending with a cautionary moral.
A collection of humorous vignettes and tricks of fate including a German insured for wife and barn, a fire loss dispute over nine hundred dollars, a Florida boy ad story ending with an alligator find, a will joke about Virginia, and a Mormon predicting civil war within a year.
A burglar entered a Sixth Avenue residence and a large woman descended to confront him. She later said she mistook the intruder for her husband drunk at home and feared he would stay. The tale sparked newspaper headlines while the woman joked she would have fled if it were really a burglar.
William Ballard a 14 year old orphan from Cleveland ran away seeking the world and California. He rode west on a Chicago bound train with two dollars kept as capital. After Omaha he rode to San Francisco and then to Omaha again where he worked selling papers before asking to enter the Industrial School to learn to read and a trade. Authorities found him suitable and committed him.
Prof Whitney in the American Artisan praises the Mormon Tabernacle seating eleven thousand noting a wooden roof on trussed arches held by wooden pins and hide strips. A three sided gallery is carried by plank pillars with large nails and an organ eighty feet high valued near one hundred thousand dollars built by a local threshing machine maker using native materials.
Experiments at the Royal Arsenal using balloons show observers gain a wide view from 100 fathoms up at 600 fathoms distance. New corded setups improve stability. military telegraph lines could link balloons to headquarters. Telegraphic field use and future war balloon manufacture are discussed.
The article surveys diverse Chinese foods from dog and bear parts to edible birds nests costing 35 dollars per pound. It details rare delicacies and the practice of using dead bodies as bait, with fishermen binding corpses to stakes to extract drifting eels at night.
M. Bauer of Paris obtains a patent for a steel printing type maker. He asserts a single machine with one nominal horsepower can produce thirty five thousand types in twelve hours. Faces are more perfect and durable, and the types cost less than those in general use.
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