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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1883
Page
2
A scatter of items from Reading Pennsylvania includes a sensational breach of promise suit by a farmer against three daughters, notes on ex January secretary Brown’s alleged 250000 debt, cemetery expansions near Paris, and a Jerome–style tale of a German emigre in Philadelphia. The column reflects local gossip and broader curiosities.
Twenty years after Patrick Kilroy left Philadelphia with $650 in deposits at the Philadelphia Saving Fund his nephew in law John A Duncan claimed he died intestate and obtained letters of administration using his wife's name. Now Kilroy, alive in Lytton British Columbia, returns to draw about $1500 with interest, leaving two Philadelphia oystermen as Duncan’s former sureties in a mournful case.
A late 19th century note argues the South urgently needs a cotton picking machine as 7,000,000 bales are gathered by hand at an estimated yearly cost of $50 million. Repeated attempts to invent a practical picker have failed, leaving planters convinced the task may be impossible, with Charleston newspaper influence cited.
A fable where a woodchuck a bee and an oppogium boast before a wolf. Each claims superior wit power or speech until the wolf orders a dinner. Moral: one never loses by keeping his mouth shut.
A 19th century method describes mailing silver coins by placing them in a wooden block, bored to hold multiple pieces. The user stamps the block, covers the hole with a thin lid, and mails it by placing the block in the post office.
A wry adage contrasts a straight line as shortest path with a long road as safest between public addresses. It notes that mule ears stay warm yet mocks a man wearing a plug hat in winter.
A tender scene of a child pleading to stay with a nurse and saying she wants to kiss her mother in the sky. A man kisses the child as he sails away, while onlookers weep with distant figures recalling a lost parent.
A discussion on human binocular vision questions why two retinal images produce one image and explores early lightning science. It recounts Franklin's kite experiment and the discovery of electricity’s behavior, including how lightning can melt sand into glass tubes and the dangers of direct strikes.
A grotesque tale recounts a stolen boy kept by an ogre who is slain by a fairy in alligator boots. Billy escapes with $50 and $20 in gold, returns home, saves the farm from mortgage, fences the property, buys a windmill, earns a Congress seat, and proclaims eventual triumph over suffering.
The article recounts beliefs that moonlight can injure sleepers in tropical regions. A Maltese sailor, sleeping with his face to the full moon, woke with facial paralysis and disfigurement, later understood as a temporary effect. Similar cases on Tahiti Mangaia and Aitutaki are noted, with lunar rays said to worsen decomposition of flesh and fish.
A fragment discusses Noah Webster and his philological methods noting errors in his spelling theories and a flawed etymology for groom. It questions the value of Webster's discoveries and cites Century Magazine critique. The piece shifts to geology with Mississippi Delta forests, describing ancient bald cypress stands with immense diameters and rings, implying great antiquity.
A clerk from a respected Hoa produced a strange newspaper advertisement claiming superiority of his house with lines about aces and table cloths. The deacon fainted upon reading and faced church questions, while a Missouri reverend who mocked women with corned beef views faced a separate incident.
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