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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1882
Page
6
A collage of historical snippets includes a Texas arrest framed as a long hunt for identity, a list of British and Irish cardinals, a New York felony code tightening penalties for assaulting police, a Georgia hotel bite incident, and odd vignettes about American life. The piece mentions Britain’s colonial era figures, army size debates, folk rhymes, and a Brooklyn anecdote about a burglar thwarted by a quick thinking resident Agnes Weaving.
Ignatieff attends to 18000 sheep on his farm while Senator Anthony runs a large turkey operation in Rhode Island. The piece praises Anthony as the greatest statesman and notes Russia could host many sheep farms, with Rhode Island housing a singular turkey enterprise. It covers Keely motor appraisal by William Becker and a report from Keely confirming near completion of his engine. President Randall predicts Keely will be hailed as the era’s greatest inventor.
The famed Japanese lord Areon Laxana travels Europe in a Gautier inspired tale. In Vienna he hosts a masked ball inviting two hundred women to attend. Each guest finds a superb bracelet hidden in her napkin after dancing and dining. Parisians expect similar feats ahead.
An army deserter in Philadelphia was bound to a bedstead with chains on Thanksgiving night and guarded by a sentinel with a loaded musket. Before dawn he freed the restraints, broke the window, dropped fourteen feet to a brick pavement, and vanished into the night.
Fragmentary lines describe a foggy street scene with references to a Bratt date and hidden details. Enlisted figures and a Wes avenue hint at a local event, but readable facts are scarce.
A report on Italian armor plate tests shows new hard plates resisting projectiles, with breech loading Armstrong guns in progress. The piece also surveys a New York housing shift from single-family homes to tenements, predicting Paris-like density and improved tenement quality benefiting the middle class.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from various papers. Scattered snippets joke about reading, appetites, marriages, and social manners. Names like Somerville and Boston appear in overheard remarks and humorous dialogues.
Herbert Spencer describes illness confined him to his London home after an ocean crossing that began well but ended with a ferocious storm off the Irish coast. He notes excellent fare and kindness from American friends yet laments interruptions to rest and the voyage’s harsh weather.
A garbled OCR excerpt recounts a fall caused by a pepper box and a run from a store involving barrels and meals in Dayton. Names and details are unclear, but the text hints at a mishap leading to alcohol related trouble and a fall with a pepper box.
Medical experts weigh gradual versus rapid warming for frozen patients. Lapt chinski’s dog trials show 14 of 20 survive gradual warming, 8 of 20 in a warm room, and all 20 from immediate hot immersion recover. Russian and Northern European practice may shift toward rapid resuscitation. Ragour or Corp Murrox suggests hot boiled mutton with gravy and acid jelly, served with Provenale potatoes.
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