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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1874
Page
3
A fragmentary verse piece evokes nostalgia for vanished summers and singing birds. It contrasts fading fields, harvest time, and memories with an elegiac tone, pondering whether joy returns or remains forever distant, as autumn winds and a final farewell drift through the countryside. The speaker laments loss and contemplates eternal beauty lost to time.
In a village a respected physician, renowned for secrets and advice, helps Sally Depford navigate a thwarted romance with Sam Barrett. A staged engagement joke spirals into real affection as Sally clings to a diamond ring, and the doctor leads a long, revealing walk home to become “our home” together.
A Icelandic committee seeks settlers in Alaska promising work, ships, and new lives while a violent storm off the coast of Ornolesc sends wreckers racing to save a bathing-house family as rescues unfold. The gale drives sailors, volunteers, and a buoy tender into a desperate, sprawling rescue.
Reports credit Gen Trepoff head of St Petersburg police with extraordinary courage after he rushed a crime scene at the military academy. A policeman killed a nurse and the doctor, then barred entry until Trepoff ordered the door opened. He confronted the killer unarmed and compelled surrender.
A London Times correspondent reports that a special police agency has saved 12,854 lives in a 600,000 population area within two years. Despite gains, the sex ratio remains stark with 54,712 girls to 101,000 boys, illustrating ongoing gender imbalance.
A poor English curate unable to live on his salary repaired watches to survive. Reported to the Bishop as a disgrace to the clergy, the Bishop indignantly stopped the misconduct by granting the curate a position valued at $2 a year.
In 1972 about 8,700 copies of the Bible circulated in Russia. The total distributed from 1888 to 1878 shows inconsistencies. It is estimated that over 15,000 Russians still lack Bibles.
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