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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1891
Page
2
A prose fragment argues against monopolization by agribusiness and corporations, warning that vast private farms threaten public control. It critiques pardoning executive power and laments economic greed influencing markets, with references to Canada and the United States and concerns over poultry, pathogens, and public health.
A first person reminiscence recounts a winter teaching post in a Northern Vermont district. The narrator, a 25 year old New Englander, endures harsh travel, old country schoolrooms, and a bizarre nocturnal encounter by a mysterious male visitor who turns playful lunatic. He escapes by locking the intruder in a closet and slips out a rear window as a blizzard rages, revealing a tale of isolation, danger, and resilience in rural schooling life. The incident ends with the narrator mirroring on insanity, fear, and the fragile line between duty and peril in the old district school era.
A fragmented poem describes winter apples and ripe harvest scents in imagery of orchard scenes. Vivid lines evoke ripened cornfields, golden mint, and the warmth of preserved fruit as a nostalgic vision of late season harvests and faded spring echoes.
A mixed fragment recounts experiments with creeping plant tendrils seemingly responding to light and direction near a veranda pillar. It also mentions a postal robbery case tied to Ruby Burrow, noting a $1,000 reward that will not be paid without legal proof and conviction.
A New York Tribune excerpt recounts a dramatic legend about a woman’s will and a theatre couple. The performer Y- and Miss A- occupy central roles amid rumors about veracity, salary disputes, and a staged scandal used as illustration.
An OCR fragment reconstructs a chaotic Topeka scene as President Harrison visited Kansas. Overcrowded hotels and eateries saw crowds clamoring for food with guards posted at dining rooms. A hungry stranger offered a dollar for milk and a piece of pie, but a proprietor, using the last family supply, refused. The pie’s half disappeared as others argued over the rest amid despair and squalid barter.
Vernon Lee writes in an English periodical on music and sound. He contemplates intimacy with silence and the elusive nature of meaning in music. He suggests sound arises from breath and distant lands beyond our grasp.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a man named Perkins and his family in distress. The text mentions physical injuries and disabilities, a wife with missing features, a child with blindness, and alleged poverty with five dollars, tobacco, and a yellow sow. The passage is garbled and difficult to interpret.
A Los Angeles occult photography incident draws grief and fear as a woman and the photographer report a spectral figure on plates. The photographer claims a deceased man appeared in the developed photos, while the living woman grows ill from the unsettling events and seeks explanations. The case unsettles both parties and unsettles local nerves.
A Indianapolis Journal account quotes a prominent banker noting that gold can’t be easily credited to accounts without immediate redemption. The article recalls a recent case where a man with 3000 in gold faced weight checks, cross-stamped coins, and delays at the Treasury, forcing him to redeem or return coins to circulation.
Fragment describes strict Puritan Sabbath and social controls in Connecticut and Massachusetts era. Notes bans on food or lodging to heretics, travel, cooking, housework, hair cutting, kissing on Sabbath, and various amusements. Mentions fines for violations and age restrictions on tobacco and liquor use, with references to community enforcement and cultural shifts.
A fragmentary public science note discusses the moon as the bright evening beacon and the possibility of life or past life. It cites ancient questions about lunar existence, sizes, distances, and the vast gulf between earth and moon, challenging reader to imagine their scale.
An English miser, John Elwes, died November 20 1789. Renowned for extreme frugality he hoarded houses and wealth, sometimes occupying vacant London lodgings to avoid rent. His fear of poverty hastened his decline, and his life ended prematurely after years of concealment.
Fragmented OCR from a Boston Tranner page shows distressed dialogue about intoxication and family harm. Quoted lines reference a log taint and a one month old infant, with ambiguous context. The tone hints at social moral concern but lacks clear events or outcomes.
A blurred OCR paragraph describes a foreign named newcomer arriving in a Western town to seek work. The piece notes sensational local speculation and a citizen’s backlash. It mentions a Bohemian and a Mr Joln Smith who is hailed as a leading town figure after the change.
A Bath Maine man plans an unusual fence next summer at Small Point. Rather than wood it would be built from tusks resembling elephant tusks or swordfish teeth. The concept arises from a life-long fascination with ocean voyages and fishing.
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