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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1871
Page
1
In a fogbound seaport scene Bret Harte recalls a phantom hulk drifting among ships and a frightened crew. Thirteen children vanish adrift, the harbor hums with fear, and a poet’s tale ends by drawing the soul to its anchorage in memory.
In a New York lawyer family, John Harlow visits the rural home of Deacon Harlow. He courts Miss Janet Dunton but grows drawn to Huldah Manners, the hired helper. After a night of moral struggle and a kitchen epiphany, John declares he will marry Huldah, and the family rejoices at Christmas.
The article argues sleeping cool increases illness and extreme open windows are harmful in cold weather. It explains respirable carbonic acid buildup near the floor and warns that miasma concentrates near ground at sunset in damp locales. It prescribes warm sleep, closed doors at dawn and dusk, a fire, and breakfast before exposure. Hall's Journal of Health.
The seven year old Willie Biersch was killed after being mauled by a hybrid dog and its five pups near Camp Washington. He was sent to fetch his father at the tannery. neighbors intervened as the animals attacked, and the dog was shot by a passerby. Dr. Richardson treated the boy at his grandfather’s home, but he died the next day. Local tanner Ernst Biersch is his father.
Professor Muller explains the eye’s six muscles and their coordinated actions in viewing curves. He argues that circular shapes engage all muscles evenly, while straight lines fatigue specific muscles, teaching a taste for curved forms through repeated viewing.
In Bench and Bar, John C. Spencer is praised for turning complex legal questions into plain, common sense disputes. Ogden Hoffman is lauded as a poetic advocate whose rhetoric appeals to juries while still honoring strict legal logic.
The article reviews John C. Spencer's prosecution of David D. How in Angelica in 1824. It details his use of a calculated rope of circumstantial evidence to connect the accused to the murder, culminating in How's conviction and execution.
The article explains how rubber is collected by Uleros in Greytown on Nicaragua’s coast. It details the process from tree marking to latex extraction, coagulation, drying, and packing into tortilla shaped cakes for delivery to dealers.
The August 1 reform cuts letter rates in England, charging by ounce with a 12 ounce limit for letters while comparing to American rates. The piece notes U S letter postage remains higher, suggesting the government could learn from England. It adds Auburn State Prison exceeds 1,000 inmates, with a winter peak in incarceration.
The article catalogs deadly gun cotton and mine explosions in Europe and Pennsylvania, a catastrophic Malay Island eruption with 400 dead, and widespread Mississippi Valley tornadoes. It contrasts human negligence with nature’s vast power, urging stricter safety rules and improved building and warning systems. It notes repeated travels of disaster, urging adaptation to wind, flood, fire damp, and earthquake risks.
The piece compares how people notice facial expression over overall form, noting familiar faces dull the general impression while unique movements stand out. It argues for educational focus on facial recognition to aid legal identification and suggests drawing from nature could boost schools and intelligence about faces.
The article outlines a vast belt around the equator rich in rubber trees that can be tapped for twenty seasons without damage. It notes high sap yields per tree and large numbers of trees, plus major global manufacturers and sustained demand, with rubber supply described as ample for the future.
A resident of Iowa purchased six thousand acres of land to establish a dairy operation. The scale suggests substantial cattle housing and grazing needs, with the project framing a major agricultural development in the region.
An affluent Polk County man in Missouri fell for a Gypsy scam. A woman claimed treasure lay on his property and induced him to deposit 3200 dollars plus 77 more before her party vanished, leaving an empty package and empty pockets.
Reports from Lahore describe a dawn massacre at an Amritsar slaughterhouse where four butchers were hacked to death and two others critically injured. Initial notes point to possible Nihung or Akali involvement, with tensions rising as communities fear further violence and retribution.
A tale describes a green agricultural laborer who saves fifty dollars and asks his employer to hold it. After a year a friend says three dollars is the interest. The laborer then asks for three dollars for a day to pay his boss the interest.
Islands produce very good Sea Island cotton and export about 9000 bales annually.
A rural New England writer recalls a tobacco barn raising in Connecticut Valley. Sixty men from six miles around built two barns in a day with simple hospitality but less merriment and equality than in the past, as women watched and the proprietor rested, reflecting dwindling old village bonds yet a touch of communal friendship.
A long collage of curious notes out of a periodical: lightning spares a matchbox, garlic as disease prevention, Spurgeon offered ten thousand dollars for a life of Christ, a Montana land purchase by Miss Mary C. Rea, Queen Victoria’s woes, hummingbird domestication, a Delhi crop search, and volcanic calamity on Togolanda.
The London Spectator notes a July discussion in the Commons over a bill to adopt the French metric system in England. The government opposed it and the motion failed by 82 to 77. The piece questions which units best fit a decimal system and cites Sir John Herschel favoring English measures.
Hartford Times profile details Wilson the condemned murderer set for hanging on October 13. It notes a 33 year crime career with 100 page book claim Thirty three Years in the Life of a Crack and lists past burglaries, bank safes and jewelry shops.
The piece cites Adhemar predicting a future flood in about 10,500 years, with the Arctic ice expanding and the Northern Hemisphere cooling while the South warms. It notes Europe and America will be submerged as new continents rise, and Australia becomes a future great power, urging preparation for the inevitable end.
An 1822 Montillard will, cited in Once Week, bans tears at funeral and makes the laughing relative sole heir. It orders no black cloth on hearse or church, but flowers and green, drums and fiddles instead of bells, and a naval- era procession with local musicians.
A Wyoming man declares he must run the family business alone because his wife, now enfranchised and active in politics, no longer contributes to the household and leaves him to care for and feed the children.
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