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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1883
Page
1
Lieutenant Bove's account notes the Jagan tribe in Terra del Fuego, detailing physical features, marriage customs, birth patterns, and harsh living conditions. The piece contrasts Fuegian life with colonial views, highlighting domestic strife, mortality, and the impact of civilization on these natives.
A collection of pun laden jokes contrasts biblical, domestic, and farm humor. The lines lampoon puns about Paul and Timothy, a breaking window, caterpillars as bread, marriage, aging, appetite, barnyard animals, and trades, finishing with quips about a cashier and schoolmaster and a tube and a Dutchman.
Jan 27 dispatch reports James Guthrie and Hulda Martin wed at the bride’s father’s home. Bad weather kept guests indoors. At breakfast the bride exclaimed for her husband, and she found him dead beside her. Her grief leaves her near hysterics.
A valuation of 460 million dollars is reported for Texas property. H H Bancroft spent over 500 thousand on a private library. Three million six hundred fifty thousand dollars are invested in iron manufacture in Birmingham district. Silk value rose from 12,210,662 to 34,410,463 dollars in a decade. Wool clip is estimated at 300 million pounds worth about 100 million dollars. Federal revenue from vessel inspection and licenses reached 278,889 dollars last fiscal year. Submarine cables total about 200,000 dollars invested, spanning roughly 64,000 miles. H H Harris of Warrenton North Carolina endorses Brown’s Iron Bitters for weakness and loss of appetite.
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