24 Dec 1885
Page 1
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1885
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment from a Leavay page shows unreadable letters and partial words related to names and dates, offering no clear event or context to identify a definite news item. The readable bits do not reveal a coherent report or outcome.
A man with a worn hat stumbles along a gray street absorbed in musty volumes in his mind. He eyes clerks and shop windows but moves on, imagining parchment manuscripts and vellum brasses while rare books gleam in his thoughts. A first edition, Firenze, catches his attention as he reflects in a genial smile.
A reader’s catalog lists Mathias Sandor as Jules Verne authoring works titled Journey to the Centre of the Earth and related titles such as Trip to the Moon Around the World in Lighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues cnd Under the Sea with translations claimed as copyrighted in 1555.
In the tale Sarcany infiltrates Zathmar’s house to seize a cipher grating. He and Zirone extract a card with nine open squares used to decode an eighteen word message guiding conspirators led by Count Sandorf. The grating enables deciphering letters from the encoded text.
In a tense dialogue, Sareany and Toronthal decode a cipher using a grating. Four attempts yield meaningless garbled words, then a line of letters reversed uncovers a planned Hungarian independence signal from Trieste. Police arrest Sandorf and accomplices as the conspiracy is betrayed.
A Lancaster county former resident now at Utah penitentiary writes a friend that he serves six months for loving and cherishing his three wives and twenty three children, praising his family and condemning the world for their separation.
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