17 Nov 1870
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1870
Page
1
Incomplete text shows station names and routes including Millereburgh Predericksborgh Apple Crook Orrv 252 Marshallaville Akron Cleveland and mentions an 80 mile going pace with references to a superintenden and president.
Bonewitz & Carr offer two houses and lots on West Larwill Street plus a South Walnut Street house and lot. Vacant corner lots on West Liberty, an Out Lot in the northeast city, eight and a half acres beyond Brewery on the Infirmary road, partly timbered, owned by J. Et. Nafizger. Also selling high school bonds at eight percent interest with semiannual payments. Mortgages are our first class city property.
In a rustic request the speaker asks for nails to mend a wagon and jokes about three free nails. The plea blends a folksy tone with family support as they seek a simple sturdy fix.
On a voyage from Boston to Calcutta the crew of the Cantharides tell a tale of a parroted port and a deadly alligator. Jack Brindle recounts a desperate river excursion with Puffkin the cabin boy as a hungry reptile closes in, leaving a perilous cliffhanger aboard the Nutmeg.
A dramatic scene aboard the brig Nutmeg features a giant snake and an alligator fighting over a boy named Puffkin. The snake leverages a tree while the alligator jaws in, then both monsters swallow each other in a twist ending. Puffkin survives with facial wounds. the crew consoles him and reserves judgment on his skull.
A clipped line notes there are fifty three Sundays in 1871 and looms of a hopeful year. A garbled quip about a Virginia orator and a muddled reference to a sand blest near New Coxnilets Morris county New Jersey appears, with odd phrasing and stray syllables.
The Toledo Blade urges local landowners and capitalists to support large manufacturing establishments. It cites Cleveland Canton and Massillon as models, calls for donated or cheap lots, stock subscriptions, and broad civic effort to turn Toledo into a manufacture hub without waiting for railroads or coal.
A Cincinnati correspondent visits Loudonville after an Ohio earthquake to view a new spring system near Stump's mill. He reports water spouting from ten outlets, ground subsidence along the road, and a town examining cause theories while mill owner Mr Rider plans to divert the water for milling using a blue clay sheet and gravel bed discovery.
A playful sketch on the common house fly describing its fantastical features and habits. It lampoons legal banter and mentions Michigan University female medical students and a law pupil from Indiana as it hints at a lawyer with a suggestive name.
A Tribune correspondent argues that newspaper advertising outperforms circulars and that prudent, targeted ad spending drives business. He recalls funding a Broadway ad in the Tribune at 500 dollars and shows circular costs could meet or exceed that without equal speed of dissemination.
Tympe, a locksmith for Louisiana Savings Bank, was sealed inside a vault when a combination lock closed behind him. With a candle, hammer, and chisel he cut his way out over two and a half hours, emerging exhausted but alive after a fetid, airless confinement.
Six masked men boarded the Eastbound Central Pacific express at Verdi nine miles west of Reno on the night of the 6th. They forced the crew at gunpoint, seized the mail and express messages, and robbed $41,000 in gold from the car before fleeing into the mountains. Telegraph wires were cut west of Reno, but two Western Union lines were repaired by daybreak.
A Panama letter recalls a violent incident aboard the Brame as two American brothers Newcome pursue a cargo trip. After a night attack by two assailants, the brothers fight back, wounding them and tumbling one attacker overboard. the other dies, while the brothers return injured and recount the daring duel at sea.
A farmer in St Lawrence County New York preserves milk in extreme heat using large tin tanks and cold water to keep it usable 26 to 48 hours. Notes on a Union Springs man weighing pork by pig size and cob fed meals. Census notes fifteen US cities over 100000. Newport New Jersey workers unearth silver coin dated 1683. A Chicago man owns wedding boots worn at every wedding.
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