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By way of enticement, here are a few selected items from our “Better Old News Than New Lies” department:

The Elbe at Hamburg has crocodiles in it, thirteen having escaped from a menagerie steamer.

In a fight at a Baptist meeting at Monticello, Ga., Aug. 23d, two men were shot dead, one or two mortally wounded, and several badly hurt. Over thirty shots were fired. Those fellows evidently belong to the church militant.

Ogdensburgh customs officials have been arrested charged with stealing opium stored in the custom house. They are reformers.

At an Irish exhibition in Barrack street, London, Aug. 22d, a band from Cork refused to play the British national anthem, and was hissed by the spectators. Members of the band afterward stated that they would not have dared to return to Ireland if they had played the anthem.

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By way of enticement, here are a few selected items from our “Better Old News Than New Lies” department:

James McDevitt got shaved in a barber shop at Somerville, Mass., Saturday night, refused to pay for the shave, and was stabbed in the face with a pair of shears by the barber.

According to the returns of the keepers of the Boston public baths, there were 250,000 visitors in July.

Lawrence Donovan, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge some time ago, and escaped without serious harm, on the 7th inst. jumped from the Hungerford bridge across the Thames at London, and was drowned.

Edward H. Olmstead, head clerk in the bursar’s office at Harvard college has emigrated with $1200 not belonging to him.

Charles Post, the bunco steerer who swindled an aged citizen of Charlestown, Mass., out of $3000, has been arrested in New York.

John Jacobs goes to the penitentiary for four months, for trying to jump off the Brooklyn bridge.

From this fortnight’s Old News: “Tuesday afternoon, July 24th, Orrin Kenniston of Newmarket, who had been in Exeter jail since April, was let out, went home, and proceeded to turn down [i.e., drink] liquor until he placed himself in a delightful condition of intoxication. He then went to his boarding house and commenced to try to run it according to his ideas, as a persuader brandishing an empty revolver to scare the bosses. He had it all his own way until the majesty of the law appeared in the person of Officer Arthur Chesley, who quickly quieted him and carried him to the police station, where he stayed all night in durance vile. Wednesday morning he was taken before Justice Mellows, and held in $600 for the supreme court in this city until October; but he thought he had been in jail for as long as he cared for, at present, so before three o’clock Wednesday afternoon he removed the bars from his cell window, and departed.” – New Hampshire Gazette, August 2, 1888.

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Hmm… maybe we ought to try some self-promotion… . Here are a couple of excerpts from our “Better Old News Than New Lies” feature, taken from our July 19, 1888 issue:

Rev. O.D. Kimball, formerly pastor of the Baptist church in Leominster, Mass., and now of the West Newton Baptist church, has left the latter place after putting a letter of resignation in the hands of church officers. He admits that he was guilty of gross immorality with five members of his church in Leominster, who were some time ago expelled from that church for making the charges.

The house has decided to put wool on the free list, only three democrats, all northern men, voting against it. Rice and sugar, which are raised solely in the south, will continue to be heavily protected. The south is in the saddle again, unquestionably.

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Well, there went another fourteen days. Time flies even though keeping up with current events can feel like being dragged across broken glass.

Yet somehow we manage. While many are turning away from the news in disgust, our readers urge us to continue.

So, here’s the latest.

As we were putting this issue together, especially over the last few days, we’ve had our fingers crossed. Now we can breathe a sigh of relief. At least we got this paper mailed, distributed, and posted before the end of the world.

Who knows? Maybe we’ll get lucky and get to do another one. Might as well get started … got to do something while waiting for the Big Elevator Shoe to drop.

Click on this link and the Friday, June 13, 2025 issue of our paper will appear as if by magic.

Apparently it is de rigueur to offer samples in order to entice readers to click on things. Who are we to challenge the wisdom of The Market?

From our “Better Old News Than New Lies” department:

It has been thought necessary in Chicago to display the American flag in the public schools in the “foreign quarter” of the city—which is about three quarters of it—in order that the pupils may discover what the Stars and Stripes are like. This is in truth an odd country with an odd people.

Peter Alt, proprietor of the Arlington house at Baltimore, Md., was shot dead by his son William, aged fifteen, while beating his wife.

The body of banker Garrett, who was drowned by the sinking of his yacht, the Gleam, has been recovered.

The earl of Derby, whose seat is in the suburbs of Liverpool, Eng., is a pronounced kleptomaniac.

Boston’s school committee have voted to drop from the text books used in Boston schools “Swinton’s Outlines of the World’s History,” on account of the allusions which it contains to the subject of “indulgences” by the Roman Catholic church.

The news of the day is appalling, so we’ve seasoned this issue with a generous helping of items that were new 137 years ago. Here’s an example:

“There was almost a riot at the Second Presbyterian church in Newburyport last Sunday, owing to the parish committee having locked the doors and stationed an officer to prevent the late pastor, Rev. Theodore Beizeley, from entering. Legal complications are expected to ensue.”

And here’s another:

“Mrs. Ivory Bean and Mrs. Orrin C. Boothby of South Waterboro, York county, Me., got into a dispute on Memorial day, Mrs. Bean accusing the other woman of being too intimate with Mr. Bean. Mrs. Boothby resented this by knocking Mrs. Bean down, hauling her out of the house by the hair, and beating and kicking her. Mrs. Bean, who is in delicate situation, will probably die from the effects of this treatment, and her assailant has been arrested.

Hmmm… maybe it’s always been appalling.

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Another fortnight, another eight pages of relatively uninhibited news. Thousands of copies are now available at scores of locations throughout the watershed of the Piscataqua, New England’s gnarliest river. For optimum reading satisfaction, we recommend the newsprint version. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of humans, that option is not feasible. For the next best thing, click on this link right here and check out the .pdf.