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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1883
Page
6
In a case arising after nine years in prison, Thomas Orton and his four children petitioned for his release to gain his advice and attention. The Home Secretary declines to urge Her Majesty to intervene, leaving the decision to the courts.
A Michigan congressman says he was invited to a Washington dinner where no food appeared at first. He found forks and bric a brac on the table, then soup arrived and he ate four helpings before the main course, claiming the final meal was the finest he ever saw, yet he was stuffed with soup.
Dr HolmEs declines lecture offers to the Philadelphia course, vow to stay in his library, and plans to continue writing rather than speaking this year and likely thereafter. Yonkers police units parade two St Bernard dogs arresting burglars after suspects fled, while London Life recalls a dramatic West End rescue tale ending in a marriage proposal.
A St. Louis wrecking company has recovered a locomotive lost by the Texas and Pacific railroad. It was found in sixty feet of water, raised with great trouble, and placed back on the track where it will likely serve again. Another locomotive sank years ago in Kansas creek and remains unfound despite repeated soundings in the quicksand.
A Telegraph employee in New York was fined ten dollars for trespassing on a hotel roof to fix wires. The Tribune mocks the notion of roof living amid telegraph infrastructure. A Grand Street shopkeeper fights an extra pole near his store, while Philadelphia reporters warned about unsafe elevator conditions for an elephant in a railroad play.
In Baltimore a woman purchased a sacque for 409 dollars after inspecting a dry goods shop. She then vanished with the wrapped item, leaving a young clerk jailed after a mistaken identity incident. The motherly purchaser, who claimed to be the nephew’s relative, drove away. the man was later released, and the woman with the sacque remains unfound.
A western town theater manager, keeping watch at the door, discovers a parade of would be violinists smuggling in with fake instruments. He ejects the disguised players including a man with three umbrellas hoping to stall while waiting for a wife. The moon shines as the ruse ends.
A collection of fragmented quips about jokes and editors from various papers. It notes pun intolerance and editorial reproach, then shifts to a Montague Massachusetts village snapshot. Forty widows and eighteen maids contrast with nineteen single men in a half mile area.
A speaker describes a girl seen in morning streets with a basket and modest quiet light in her eyes. He praises her virtue and intent, suggesting even queens would bear her basket if they could resemble her goodness and sweetness. The verse cites Charles H Crandall from St Nicholas.
A Victorian tale recounts Tobias Eliakim Supposing’s overprotected upbringing at a castle. He shuns painting pigments and firearms, while tutors push him toward danger. An overzealous inventor’s ventilator ignition seals the family’s doom in a fiery, locked-house tragedy.
A series of humorous vignettes from rural childhood include a pond already skated on by a boy who jokes about heaven, a disobedient girl seeking chloroform, a fib told by a baby, a boy asking why butter goes into milk, and a cranky churning scene.
A station master in India telegraphed 200 miles to the central office seeking instructions to stop an approaching train as a tiger loomed near the Tale signal box, prompting precautionary signaling at the next station.
At a Chicago depot a literate man Geoffrey Winthrop confronts a group of street Arabs over a dog, buys Leicester, and continues the journey with Beatrice and Less as a crowd of passengers and a hotel romance unfold amid era ads and music. The text blends social satire and light travel narrative with extended character sketches and casually wry observations.
A watchman with no personal timepiece borrows one, then creates a novel clock from a paper strip tracking stars and their rising times. He pins the strip into a two-roller setup in a small box with a glass lid, winding it by turning a crank to read time as the light fades.
The article traces slang phrases to Greek and Latin roots, noting the term ske daddle linked to skdanumi meaning to run away and I should blush to murmur tied to Horresco referens from the Aeneid. It argues many jokes and puns arise from spontaneity beyond direct literary lineage and that many creators could have invented similar bows in coats.
The piece highlights Prof Thus Hunter of York schools proposing no text books for grammar and history and maps for geography with daily silent reading. It also reports on Mrs. Wallis Yates, wife of an Austin merchant, attending balls in a low necked dress and gossip about her husband’s business. The column notes silver coins worn by abrasion are redeemable at face value while clipped coins are bought as bullion.
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