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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1874
Page
3
Fragmented lines pose questions about names and images, likely a cryptic puzzle or poetry page. The text references decades and a host of near-learned phrases. Readers are left to decipher who or what is meant by each clue amid garbled OCR.
In the quiet town of Carlton Mrs. Denton and neighbors judge Fanny Howard, a schoolteacher daughter of a convict, amid gossip sparked by her past. Harry Carlton and Benny the child become entwined in events at the May picnic, ending with Fanny’s exile and later engagement news.
The essay recounts Clem ens writing from Manrronn Conn Oct 5 about missing a New York commencement due to a severe cold. He narrates absurd remedies from baths to salt water and a sheet bath, detailing misadventures with quack cures and the comedic futility of many old-fashioned remedies.
In Ridgewood neighbourhood, a veteran hunter shoots at a stuffed squirrel used as a prank by his ten year old grandson. The stunt ends with the boy fleeing as the grandfather realises the ruse, while praising the boy’s potential future fame as President of the United States. The Jersey City Times reports the event as a humorous local tale.
Bridget Mathony, calling herself, applied for a cook job with Dr Jackson in Colanba Ky. After being dismissed she sought shelter with Mrs Switzker near the Mississippi & Ohio Railroad. She set fire to a bed with two children asleep, burning them and destroying the house and most furniture. She is in prison as the community reels from the tragedy.
Farmers face scarce labor during harvest across California with wages rising yet workers scarce. Some crops must be stacked without threshing and stored until spring due to inadequate help despite rail and water transport to tidewater.
A humorous catalog of currant lore describes the fruit as plentiful for sweetmeats, tea, and pies, noting its size, color, tartness, and versatility. The narrator recalls childhood earnings gathering currants and mentions currant jelly as a noted delicacy, while intertwining anecdotes from periodical sources.
Officers nabbed seventy seven year old Mary Wooley a long time practitioner of begging. A bag of coins weighing about thirty pounds and a small food bag were found on her. She objected to touching her money and had previously appeared before a city court with ties to an Indiana farm and two city houses.
A Metcalfe grocery in our town closed for a week amid burglaries. To deter thieves, Metcalf bought a dog to watch the shop at night, but the animal escaped, attacking him at dawn. The dog owner had left town to visit his aunt and would be away a month. Metcalf planned to coax the dog back through the door crack.
A sub report from Gen Miles details a 12th century style rescue on McClellan Creek Texas where Sergt Woodhall Privates Rath Harrington Smith and Scouts Chapman Dixon and others defended a five man party against 125 Kiowa and Comanche attackers. Private Smith died of wounds, others wounded but survived after days under fire with only rain water for drink. The dispatch urges reward and formal recognition from high military authority.
A woman riding a streetcar bought a cabbage from a shopkeeper. The cabbage contained a large snake hidden inside the hollow heart. The incident, reported from Winnington, caused alarm as residents pondered how the reptile entered and remained there.
An apple tree stands on Hon Hiram Its Robinaford New Hampshire farm, planted 125 years ago and still in good heart, with Judge Roberts noting no year since his memory that the tree failed to bear fruit. A western farmer’s jest about a distant telegraph field is also mentioned.
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