14 Nov 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1871
Page
1
The speaker contrasts city life with the country home beside the sea and inland pines. He cherishes familiar places from childhood such as window vines and roadside blackberries, hoping his grave rests near the sea. He envisions Mother Earth sustaining unborn nations as swords are beaten to the plow.
The Gotham sailing ship bound from Amoy encounters deadly sulfur fumes as Theodore Dean defies danger to rescue Mary Case. Captain Van Kirk and crew evacuate passengers while Theo clings to life on the ladder, later guiding Mary to safety and reuniting with her through a dramatic coastward voyage. The lovers marry, Captain Van Kirk is exonerated, and Case & Co. becomes Case Dean & Co with Theo amid wealth from salvage.
A correspondent argues that owners of vast landholdings like Astor and other major estates insure little, if at all, paying only a fraction of the true cost. Fire losses often raise land values, turning burned districts into thriving commercial centers, as seen in Broad Street and anticipated in Chicago after its great fire.
The Milwaukee Sentinel editor argues Western mining wealth lies untapped and growing. New mines arise in barren areas and methods to extract metals improve. The Pacific Railroad enables quartz mills and coal transport. water scarcity will be solved by organized effort and capital joining with miners.
Experiments on the New York and Boston Railroad near Tarrytown demonstrate that the dualin explosive is safer than nitro glycerine yet powerful. A keg dropped from sixty feet caused no more effect than earth. Submarine tests sent water skyward and blasted rock to atoms with small charges. A single ounce of dualin in a mortar drove a 50 pound ball to four hundred feet, while the same weight of powder failed to lift it. Dualin appears as finely comminated wood and nitroglycerine and burns with a fierce flame without an explosive shock.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a rising Christian movement in Syria. Damascus Ulema fear for converts as many are imprisoned banished or pressed to convert. By Russian mediation some releases occur amid warnings of clashes between Christian and Muslim communities.
A U.S. newspaper recounts a century old tale from Huron on the Ohio and Mississippi line. A missing peddler rumored to have disappeared returns in uncanny form as red hot chains fall from a tree and unearthly groans echo while a frightened team races away. Villagers later dig up a skeletal remnant near the field, sparking talk of murder and spiritualism. The account blends superstition with possible crime, drawing parallels to sensational era stories.
The Pittsburg Chronicle reports the largest coal run in the region and likely the nation yesterday at W. H. Brown’s Keystone coal works near McKeesport. In thirteen hours 28,259 bushels were produced, eight hundred foot incline to two barges, averaging nearly two cars per minute. The previous record was 18,525 bushels in eleven hours at Pine Run by John O’Neil. A pair of deer horns awarded for the feat will be surrendered.
The article describes birds that steal prey from others, citing Audubon’s scenes of white headed eagles shadowing osprey on inland rivers and the ocean. It details eagles harassing fish hawks, gulls forcing terns and smaller gulls to disgorge, and Arctic gulls preying on larger birds during migrations for their sustenance.
An editorial argues parents should provide boys with mechanical tools and activities to channel energy, build mind and hand skills, and prevent idleness. It links leisure with practical learning, cites benefit to character, and extols tool use as a path to achievement and personal worth. It then shifts to praise for the National Insurance Convention and its push for a general insurance statute to harmonize state laws, reduce conflicts, and strengthen the industry after recent disasters.
A Cape Cod correspondent recalls mackerel fishing from the starboard side, noting line entanglements as six lines tangle when a fish darts about. He describes patience with capricious timing, the ritual heave to, and the danger of tangled lines while three greenies and an old salt share the deck and the barrel.
A consistent old gentleman told an YMCA gathering he has lived in Cincinnati thirty years and has never bought or read a Sunday newspaper nor ridden streetcars on the Sabbath. He appeared happy.
In a pavilion gallery a California girl operates a reel to unwind silk from cocoons. Boiling water loosens gum, threads are drawn and crossed at a 30 degree angle, creating a smooth strong thread. The single operator displays precision as fibers wind from cocoon to reel, forming two ready skeins of silk.
The piece notes that fire proofing may slow a major blaze but cannot stop it once ready to destroy wooden structures. It cites Troy 1862 and London Bridge 1861 as cases where cast iron and wrought iron failed against intense heat, exposing weaknesses in current fire proofing and urging thorough revision.
A Boston Journal reader recounts a Chicago streetcar scene after a fire. Passengers mourn the damage while a stranger quips that losing his house and stove yields a small gain, then a note on Canadian rabbit farming appearing as a cheap food source and trade asset.
A digest of short items includes a Frisco bootblack giving a day’s work for $25 to Chicago, flannel receptions for charity, and whiskey from Canada. It recounts Italy’s child theft report, Rochester Gas digging for gas, and parish fees in Hamilton aiding newlyweds.
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