12 Oct 1871
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1871
Page
1
A narrator recalls a croquet day where a striking damsel named Jemmie Lake bewitched him with a radiant smile, striped Balmoral attire, and a playful charm. The scene combines sport, flirtation, and a dreamlike moment as he likens her to a rainbow touching the earth by the painted stake.
A county motion urged rapid measures to back a countywide grading project to extend reading across the area. G F Newton and R K Enos were named to represent the county at upcoming meetings in Coshocton and Cambridge, as Joliet County Farmer notes.
An American traveler Basil, with a jeweled appearance, clashes with a verbose hotel clerk at a major inn. The clerk dismisses him and the narrator condemns the despotic treatment of travelers while Basil acquiesces and grows resigned as evening comes. This passage from Atlantic Monthly portrays class, impatience, and the clash of politeness versus dignity in hospitality.
A late 19th century traveler visiting Richfield’s sulphur springs followed a man’s odd instruction to pass a flag and breathe through a rod to avoid smallpox. He held his nose and rode past the spring but fainted on scent after fifty rods. His fate remains unknown.
Yancktan Dakota paper profiles Louis Kelly as a famed hunter in the far west. A lone, buckskin clad, turbaned graduate of a southern college who may be a former rebel officer, aged about twenty two, muscular and feared by Indians as he travels alone. He’s headed for the hot waters of the Yellowstone, reputedly capable of facing dozen warriors and never showing fear or doubt.
In Chicago a bank house is swarmed by police after a cricket chirp is heard, suspected to signal burglars. The Atlanta Sun editorializes on Balaxm with initials A H 3, noting a composer’s loss of reason driven by scripture. Alondin returns to dance above Niagara’s roar at the Crystal Palace, while London Excursions flood the city for his farewell. A French inventor’s steel process at Givors promises rapid output and controllable arrest of production.
A sketch recalls Elias Howe Jr enlisting amid a noisy scene with coachman Michael Cahill protesting for his son and Howe’s pay. The paymaster confirms two months’ advance, Howe repays with own funds, then leaves to rejoin service. A later note hints at Modern Palmistry gossip on fate and character through hand lines and nails.
An eyewitness recounts a terrifying down hill wagon ride on a narrow mountain road. The driver speeds through sharp bends at full tilt, risking a plunge over the abyss as passengers brace for a fatal fall. One carriage overturn injures several, with one woman laid up for weeks.
A jumble of early dispatches notes indemnity payments to Prussia, a new governor’s ire at ferry boats, and a San Francisco hopeful city clerk. It mentions a Polish rail ticket ban, the Nor mandis ironclad being broken up, and a salty social wager among Atlanta youths. A US naval squadron fires at a Gulf wreck without success.
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