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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1883
Page
6
The savings bank system of the English Post Office shows strong growth with 250,000 new depositors last year, bringing the yearly total to 3,000,000 accounts and aggregate deposits to £39,000,000.
A scattered column notes a Stokes county doctor facing ethics scrutiny for forty years of treatment on one patient. It also jokes about engineers in New Britain and a boxing quip about Maori Snape. Tangier auctions reveal cheap slaves, with a boy and girl sold for $38 and $24 respectively, amid forty-two sold since April 1.
An anonymous Boston donor mailed councilmen fifty dollar bills with no source hint. Earlier a $5,000 gift to a Massachusetts public institution was falsely attributed to Gen. Butler. The benefactor may be targeting a poor, honest ward politician.
A year ago last March Mrs Brakb, sister of Judge Smith of the New York Supreme Court, widow, settled near Huron Dakota Territory as a farmer. She bought 800 acres and grows grain on a large scale. Her wheat oats and flax crops are large and profitable. She faces no difficulties in running her operations.
A Paris firm patents a method for instantaneous steam creation in engine cylinders. Water is pumped between heated slate surfaces, evaporates in a thin layer, and fresh steam acts directly in the cylinder. A Louisville patient reports a dramatic liver and kidney treatment by doctors, yet a dispute over the bug source persists among physicians.
A young man from a Schleswig-Holstein family visiting Monaco gambled away a large sum after losing at roulette. Telegraphing for funds, he received money to gamble again but squandered it all, then lost his watch, studs, and rings and could not borrow 500 francs for his hotel bill. Unable to seek more aid from his family, he shot himself out of shame.
The report notes totals for letters delivered 1 280 637 290 and newspapers 144 016 200 with 32 092 526 telegraphic messages. It cites 26 293 letters without addresses and 1 604 items of cash or checks worth £6 016. Savings-bank revenue reached £9 413 812 with £3 661 748 net, down £98 727 from the prior year.
A novelty firm advertises a Thomas A. Edi son automatic reversible fox with an electromechanical chase feature and detachable tail trophies priced at 16 dollars. Census figures for Osaka Hiogo Nagasaki Tokio Kioto are reported with male female balances and housing counts.
A quirky column combines talk of old fashion drinks and a German beer boom with cautions about lead in perambulator hoods and oilcloth, then shifts to a humorous Texan river standoff and a dramatic bank tale before mixing in social notes and educational debate.
The article notes Mr Chaplin owner of Breadalbane and Broomielaw in Lincolnshire faces a rent dilemma due to the Lincolnshire custom. Reducing rents would squeeze his finances, while refusing would trigger tenant rights and ruin him, so he relies on the Derby winner Hermit to cover costs.
Sitcz 1881 reports that the University of Cambridge admitted women students from Girton and Newnham to the same examinations as men. Next year their rates will be entered in the University calendar alongside male metrics. It notes a pneumatic sewer plan in Paris being attended with excellent results.
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