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Domestic News
May 17, 1867
Gold Hill Daily News
Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada
What is this article about?
A sudden hailstorm struck the newspaper office around 2:20 PM on May 17, leading to humorous banter between the staff and foreman about the weather spoiling the date.
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Hail, Hail.
"There comes an item," growled our foreman, as patter-patter came down the stones upon our front portico. Of course. Time, twenty minutes past 2; gloomy but not threatening sky; all of a sudden hail came down with Assyrian copiousness. It's a mistake, however, to suppose that this is the seventeenth of May. Our foreman has so typed it; but he has no barometrical appreciation of the effect the weather has in spoiling dates, as commonly "put up" by Almanac & Co. We remarked that the hail was an imposition on the assumed month. Foreman growled again: "There ain't an imposing stone in the whole shower." There's going to be a muss in this office, about 3 o'clock P. M., on some sad day. There will be genuine orphans to care for, from this establishment; and no feminine foolishness. It has stopped hailing.
Short, smart rattle. It's on record—notwithstanding the lock-up growler.
"There comes an item," growled our foreman, as patter-patter came down the stones upon our front portico. Of course. Time, twenty minutes past 2; gloomy but not threatening sky; all of a sudden hail came down with Assyrian copiousness. It's a mistake, however, to suppose that this is the seventeenth of May. Our foreman has so typed it; but he has no barometrical appreciation of the effect the weather has in spoiling dates, as commonly "put up" by Almanac & Co. We remarked that the hail was an imposition on the assumed month. Foreman growled again: "There ain't an imposing stone in the whole shower." There's going to be a muss in this office, about 3 o'clock P. M., on some sad day. There will be genuine orphans to care for, from this establishment; and no feminine foolishness. It has stopped hailing.
Short, smart rattle. It's on record—notwithstanding the lock-up growler.
What sub-type of article is it?
Weather
What keywords are associated?
Hailstorm
Newspaper Office
May Seventeenth
Foreman Banter
What entities or persons were involved?
Foreman
Domestic News Details
Event Date
Seventeenth Of May
Key Persons
Foreman
Outcome
hail stopped; no damage or injuries mentioned.
Event Details
Sudden hailstorm at 20 minutes past 2 PM under gloomy sky, with hail falling copiously on the office portico, prompting staff banter about the date and weather.