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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1886
Page
2
A poem by I Edgar Jones laments a lost companion, invoking velvet eyes and cherished blooms. The speaker asks God to keep memory bright, letting the flowers loved in life grace the grave with tender reminder of vanished days.
Emmy Crystal marries Ralph Crystals and seeks his long lost mother. She discovers a frail old woman living in a Harlem rooming house, who turns out to be Ralph’s mother, once driven from home by hardship. Emmy brings her in, and the trio bonds as Ralph returns to a fuller family.
Gardiner Sima described experiments with the government’s recently delivered torpedo at Willetts Point. Crews tested the weapon as it moved toward a ship, causing alarm among the vessel’s company as observers watched from the rail.
A Hove Tribune reporter witnesses a rat catching scene in a hallway where a lantern lights the feasting of rats. The rat-catcher explains methods to trap and move rodents, describes their climbers, and details poisonous and suffocating tactics. He recounts bites, defenses, and control measures, noting nineteen rats killed and more expected.
A Wyoming correspondent to the New York Sun reports trouble involving bank sharps and army officers on the Western Arabs line. He says officers are targeted in gambling rings aboard trains and cites incidents of violence and deception. The account notes officers can spot others by manner and that some passengers fare poorly in these schemes.
From Maine to Augusta, John F. Chase, a rugged farmer, enlisted early in 1861. He bore forty eight wounds at Gettysburg, including a severed eye and arm injuries, while serving as cannoneer No 1 in the Fifth Maine Battery. He remained conscious after being struck, asked if the army won, and earned commendation from General Hooker for steadfast gallantry amid heavy fire.
A Webster New Hampshire teacher with a glass eye recounts teaching challenges and students’ reactions after an accusation of improper focus on a teen pupil. Directors demanded either retirement of the eye or leaving the school, prompting the teacher to leave for St Paul Globe.
The readable fragments reference a prominent Newee figure aiding a Mail and X representative. Mentions of pictures and expressions, a former cabinet seat, and a discourse on natural-looking portraits. Context remains unclear with garbled names and phrases.
A broken OCR fragment mentions boasting about a bird that whistled and a piano aria. It references older years and a person named Puleski with unclear context. The readable bits suggest a local column note or anecdote about music and performers, but most details are garbled.
A burst of curiosities ranges from baldness in pegres cities to extinct English flora due to tourists and traders. Notes on musical tones of the Ohio River, a French crystal lock with 3 647 385 combinations, ancient armor, Norman French influence, and cows valuing nobility. A Savannah squirrel dies of grief after a mistress leaves.
An 1882 account describes Corean mourners in gray sackcloth and yellow hats, a Queen’s supposed murder, and a grave social rule: widowed wait times stretch nine years. A bachelor’s tale shows how three-year mourning periods repeatedly delay marriage, revealing the culture’s ritual rigidity.
A vivid scene of diverse city children in a crowded New York setting. The piece contrasts cherubic babies and graceful youths with roving tramps and grimy workers, depicting a clash of innocence and urban grit amid a bustling fair atmosphere. The article contrasts beauty and decay in a single tableaux.
A St Louis physician warns in an interview that bicycle riding resembles roller skating in producing a new class of disease. He cites eight cases of spine and kidney affliction attributed to the coatings jar of the machine and notes it affects only men of weak constitutions who are inactive or unfit for physical work.
A domesticated wolf in the Emolensk region went on a deadly rampage after escaping a village home. Peter Trhrkow and Mujik Jackolen fought the beast with aid from neighbors while Dushka’s bite spread hydrophobia like the Pasteur cases. By nightfall nineteen were hospital bound and three died, prompting a mass peasant punishment plot for the cowardly owner as authorities warned of wolves still roaming Western Russia forests.
Report notes a wave of retirements and reorganizations among Wall Street figures, with Whites emerging as a leading candidate to shape the Street. Mentions of Lackawana holdings and other named entities hint at shifting power as the market eyes new leadership and policy directions. A Berlin birth notice fragment appears in the text, suggesting added miscellaneous notes within the clipping.
The article surveys medical experiments and observations, including eye replacement in animals, mussel toxins likened to poisons, attempts to grow mollusks, palm wine tapping, and dream representations tied to sensory impressions. It notes Virchow on a toxin, aquarium deaths, and physiological dream imagery.
Harry Whiteside, while fishing near ETE, spots a cub and gives chase. He chases the cub, drops his fish and coat to flee, narrowly escaping a larger bear. Mrs Brain pursues, and Whiteside resorts to fire to deter the cub as chaos erupts in the woods.
Professor D Leonhard of Frankfort presents statistics on horses by country showing per 1060 inhabitants and other figures. The fragmentary text mentions Spain and a reference to hourly horse-related deaths, but the context is unclear.
Fragmentary OCR outlines a historical scene with an emperor of China and Mantchoa nobility. The passage mentions thirty two assembled people and a pleasantry scene implying a royal or ceremonial context. Readable details are limited and no clear event date or outcome is provided.
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