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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1874
Page
3
A garbled miscellany poem blending Christmas warmth with stark winter hardship. It invokes Bethlehem, angels, and the Babe while contrasting homeless, cold streets with the season’s generosity and hopeful mirth. The piece laments need amid cheer and ends with a plea for goodwill to all.
In a crowded house three lonely residents the musician the shoemaker and a widow lady find Christmas aid when a magical Child arrives. The Child inspires generosity and cooperation among tenants as the musician and shoemaker repair lives of the widow and her staff, transforming the parlor into a festive home.
A physician notes Louis Lamarck, an Algerian ex-soldier, whose long mercury use has made his body temperature correlate with the metal. He reads weather cues in fevered heat, experiences extreme temperature sensitivity, and nearly losses sight and mobility as temperatures drift away from a fixed mark around 98 degrees. The case is described as a striking physiological study of the day.
A Pittsfield paper recounts a court scene where a lawyer questions a witness about a mare named Indy. After a flurry of misread questions about driving and temperament, the witness clarifies he meant the horse not the woman. They joke about Mr Murray resigning to “make stables the organization of his church.”
A miscellany of remarks touches law, finance, and curiosities across cities. Topics include a Illinois Supreme Court note on cash sales and interest, a Detroit man’s misdeeds, absurd anecdotes about grammar and sewers in Austin, and odd tales of lovers, a drunk map thief, and a seven-man Last Man Society in Cincinnati with a wine box ritual.
Reports from Bridgeville describe a farmer waking to find an intruder with a butcher knife. The farmer chased and killed the man, severing the head in a brutal act witnessed by his wife and daughter who carried the body and cleaned the killer’s hands. The body was identified only as a stranger, seen in the area the day before. The report also notes Canada barley imports over the last four years as context.
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