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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1885
Page
7
The text recounts a German accented narrator recalling a family saga. He mentions his father in law Fritz, Katrina his beloved, and a wedding plan disrupted by poverty and migration. The piece ends with rejoicing over a found father and a baby boy, amid tears and joy.
Bernard Ralston, a famed philosopher, becomes guardian to Olive Power and travels to Switzerland. A perilous glacier search ends with Olive rescuing him, revealing a budding romance and a life altered by sacrifice, duty, and love.
The article argues that diverse home crafts enrich life and that busy women can fit in small amounts of fancy work as recreation. It cites examples of a lambrequin made in few minutes after dinner and a quilt claimed to be completed in isolated moments, illustrating practical homemaking and the virtue of domestic creativity.
A physician recalls the sole grave error of his career in which he cut the wrong leg for a patient. The patient suffered the loss of both legs, and the man reacted with indignation, though he did not physically kick.
A Baplish architect asserts timber houses can outlast brick or stone. He cites century old salt houses and other long standing structures as evidence, noting timber designs with modern strength and durability.
A condensed chronicle of January disasters across land and sea. Notable deaths include a railway collision at Toronto. a Belleville nuns and pupils fire. a fire damp mine blast at Arras. the steamer Suan Tuen wreck with Chinese casualties. railway oil fire near Bradford. cage rope break at Cwmamman coal pit. City of Columbus wreck with 100 lives. a Lenoir County house fire. Emma wreck off New Jersey. multiple French and English mining fatalities. raft wreck at Carthage Tennessee. Gloucester schooners losses. Colorado mine explosion. ship Simlin in the English Channel. Welsh coast vessel losses.
The roundup lists numerous calamities including drownings after ice breaks in Thesis Austria and Caspian Sea fishermen loss, fires in Crockett Texas and Alliance Ohio, a major cyclone across Georgia Mississippi and the Carolinas with over 400 dead, a bridge collapse near Indianapolis causing six deaths and eight injuries, a coal gas explosion, shipwrecks near Corunna and Hong Kong Macao, Ohio River floods at Cincinnati, a boardinghouse collapse with fourteen deaths, miners killed by fire damp near Uniontown, and a boiler explosion aboard the steamer Xorsal.
A coal mine disaster at Pocahontas Virginia leaves 154 workers dead. Authorities report a deadly explosion. rescue efforts continue as investigators search for causes and assess damages.
Oakville Indiana destroyed by cyclone with five killed. Storms hit Alabama Georgia and Pennsylvania with about twenty deaths. Port Arthur Canada explosion kills five. Chattahoochee River steamer fire claims thirteen. Daniel Stein sinking near Halifax with 124 drownings. Train wrecks kill many in Texas Pennsylvania and Spain. Dozens drowned in Hudson River boating accident. Collision in Atlantic sinks two vessels with 485 dead. Ban on Viljoen?
A survey of fatal incidents includes five men killed by a bleacher explosion in Waterford New York, sixty two lost on a French brig near Newfoundland, seventy drowned aboard a Syria wreck near Fiji, and fourteen laborers killed by a collision near Connellsville. Also noted are earthquakes in Cyzicus, 19 lives lost off Magdalen Islands, seven drowned in St Albert Quebec, seven killed by a Gouverneur New York boiler, ten women killed by dynamite in Ayrshire, Scotland, and other shipwrecks, floods, and industrial accidents across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Reports list multiple disasters: Amsterdam wrecked on Sable Island with three passengers missing. 24 miners killed in a British Columbia colliery explosion. ten drowned off Becks Beach New Jersey. 20 killed 40 injured in a Manchester England rail accident. four Miller daughters killed by lightning near Maryville Kansas. other losses cited including Ha na ver and transfer steamer events.
A string of deadly incidents across countries and states reported: in France seven teen men died in an undertrouitt gnal near Hrayo. in Shamokin Pennsylvania a mine collapse killed red to death. in Shelbyville Indiana arsenic poisoning from biscuits killed five. a Newfoundland gale caused heavy loss of life. seven men died in a coal pit explosion in Paisley Scotland. ten circus workers perish in a sleeping-car fire near Greeley Colorado.
A string of disasters reports nine killed in Cleveland fire and multiple deaths from a Mexican Central Railroad accident. Distillery explosions in Pennsylvania, river floods on the Sau Claire and Chippewa floods cause heavy property loss. Kiang See in China suffers inundation with vast death toll. The Wasp sinks near Tory Island with fifty-two dead. A cyclone in Allegany County New York and a sulphur mine fire in Sicily add to the toll.
A collage of deadly events from October lists rail and storm disasters, fires, drownings, explosions, and collapses. Incidents include a railroad crash in India with many dead, hurricanes in Iceland and the Bahamas, a Copenhagen palace fire tragedy, drownings in Austria and Chicago, a mine suffocation in Ohio, and theater panics in Glasgow with multiple deaths.
A November report tallies nine people killed by a boiler explosion at a New Orleans sugar house. Other disasters include ship sinkings, drownings, mine gas blasts, and a Brooklyn orphanage fire with 25 children killed. Many incidents spread across North America and beyond, with multiple fatalities and ongoing dangers reported.
Two vignettes from college life at Oxford show a proctor bargaining with a promising student over a fine for late billiard room mischief and a clever debtor returning from the Union with a tally of ten shillings for a rival. The first tale ends with a ten shilling donation offer and a good morning. The second features a debater terrorizing a rival with a bag of money to extract payment splitting to 239 shillings, prompting a sudden departure from Oxford.
Five years into eating one meal daily Auburn, Maine resident N Silver reports gaining twenty five pounds yet stronger and healthier with no colds. He spends an hour dining and claims two thirds of ordinary food is wasted. His wife also eats once daily and remains healthy. He notes friends have adopted the practice.
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