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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1874
Page
3
A reflective poem by Joan W. Chadwick describes a climber’s ascent toward a mountain summit and the contrast between the joy of the journey and the awe of the unknown fate at the peak. It imagines departed friends and a serene afterlife, rich with green valleys and timeless visions.
A historical study traces cases of people believed dead being buried alive since ancient times. It recounts Thouret’s 1786 investigations in Paris at the Cimetiere des Innocents, later tomb avoidances, and a cascade of European anecdotes: priests, journalists, nobles, and soldiers waking during burial, with graphic scenes of death struggles, botched autopsies, and near misses that spurred stricter burial laws.
Report notes two five year olds from the southern city area attempting an elopement by train. The boy asked his father for six cents to start a newspaper business, left home in fine clothes with the girl, but railroad staff halted their plans. They stored a carpet bag at the boy’s father’s office before returning home. The tale amused agents and friends once public. A postscript estimates 1880 rail mileage reaching 100000 miles nationally, with 70000 miles already.
A man recalls an incident on a train where a mystery woman gave her shawl to a mother and child. The act warmed more hearts, revealing character and leading to marriage. He later showed the crimson shawl as a memento of the union begun in the cars.
A Syracuse family story follows Charles Meyers, a German immigrant, who after losing his wife Wilhemina during hops picking in Vernon and Augusta, searches over two years and advertises tirelessly. Four years later, a partially insane woman at Rome County House recalls a husband and two children, hinting she is Wilhelmina.
In Syracuse a German woman living at the county house is identified by a tramp’s tale and a tinsmith’s clue. Mr Meyers, who had gone to Rondout, returns with his two children to Syracuse to reclaim his wife Wilhelmina. Mrs Cheney reveals the reunion as the couple meets and the scene becomes a festive county house moment.
Bret Murte recounts Wan Lee, a paper-carrier, shoved to fill a route while sick. Subscribers awoke to copies hurled as cannon balls through windows and doors, some delivered in chimney, keyholes, or milk can. One subscriber’s bedroom was struck as the Northern Sizer boomerang scene charmed the room.
In a lofty building fire, a brave young fireman climbed through smoke to reach a child as onlookers urged him with cheers. The crowd’s shout helped spur the rescuer to complete the riskiest descent with the child unharmed. The piece closes with a note on urging and supporting those striving to do good. It also mentions twelve thousand coal region workers out of employment.
An essay argues Americans sped through work and life shaping a pragmatic, hurried society. It contrasts frontier necessity with European schooling, cites parents and institutions pressuring early emancipation, and laments neglect of liberal study. It mentions Michael Angelo and Harper’s Bazaar.
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