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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1897
Page
6
A poetic meditation on a love word that cannot be unsaid and the freed bird of desire. The speaker questions whether love once released can be recaptured or restrained, noting the changed song and the futility of returning to cages. Robert A. Johnson credits Century.
A Rotterdam ship Rollo and a Dutch brig Zuyder Zee meet a fierce northwest gale in Vestfjord near the Lofoten, with the Zuyder Zee sinking after the maelstrom. Captain Rivers leads a perilous boat sortie to save Mrs Rivers and Charlie, granting a poignant reunion as the Rotterdam port receives them home.
The North Carolina penitentiary became self-supporting for the first time in 25 years under Augustus Leazer's management in 1896. Convicts farmed and produced 2,659 bales of cotton valued over 77,000 dollars, with 400 bales lost to a flood and 100,000 bushels of corn destroyed. Mortality among convicts is low, especially among colored inmates, compared to urban towns.
A printer sued a pork butcher for payment for a large parcel of paper bags with the butcher’s advertisement. The judge noted the royal arms were nicer than the butcher’s emblem, but the defendant refused to pay citing his customers and his own meat trade.
The 19th century account recounts Arthur Duestrow being hanged in Union Missouri at 1 p.m after confessing to murdering his wife and baby. He proclaimed innocence as the trap released, with doctors confirming his dying pulse and the crowd witnessing the execution.
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