Editing The London Trumpet - Victorian Broadsheets (section)

===Sunday, September 9, 1888===
[[Image:Imperials-Newpaper Issue 2.gif|thumb|XLII, Vol. 1, Issue #2 - '''COVER''' - Sunday, September 9, 1888]]
[[Image:Imperials-Newpaper Issue 2b.gif|thumb|XLII, Vol. 1, Issue #2  - '''REVERSE''' - Sunday, September 9, 1888]]
: XLII, Vol. 1, #2:  ''In this week's paper...''
::* HEADLINE ARTICLE:    <br> '''''RIPPER - RED LIGHT KILLING TOO MUCH FOR THE POLICE?'''''  ''--(by Jameson)''
::: One must ask oneself – how is it Scotland Yard, or mayhaps the simpletons at the London Police force are so incompetent as to have this new “Bloody Jack” taunting their blind investigations with such a dreadful letter – brought to you here exclusively from the Trumpet, the only paper of renown!!  <br> More to follow as events unfold.
::::''<font color=darkred>Dear Boss, <br> I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits. I am down on renowns and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled. Grand work the last job was. I gave the renown no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to start again. You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I cant use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. The next job I do I shall clip the renowns ears off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you. Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work, then give it out straight. My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good Luck. <br> Yours truly <br> Ripper <br> Dont mind me giving the trade name <br>  <br> PS Wasnt good enough to post this before I got all the red ink off my hands curse it No luck yet. They say I'm a doctor now. ha ha.</font>''
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' Streets of London Not Safe'''''  ''--(by Urich)''
::: Requests for an increase in the number of officers patrolling the streets of London has been called for by several high ranking members of Parliament. This requests coincides with a recent attack on Professor Bruce Banner one of Scotland's most respected Historians. The Professor was recently discovered wandering the streets of London, sources saying that the Professor was dazed, confused and lacking much in the way of attire. The Professor himself was not available for comment as he has recently left for Gibraltar to recuperate.
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' American Evangelist predicts Apocalypse! - Self styled Adam Warlock says Day of Doom at hand!'''''  ''--(by Berino)''
::: Colonials will believe anything, won't they? America has produced a number of home grown prophets. In the wilds of Utah, few are stranger than the man known as Adam Warlock. What his original name is, is anyone's guess, but the declared Messiah has such outlandish claims as having been born fully grown and possessed of a body of what the 'Unsullen Man' looked like. It's easy to see why the uneducated frontiersmen would believe it for Adam is a pretty sight with his golden skin and hair. While I wasn't able to see much of his faith healings or ability to cast out demons, I did get to hear some of his bizarre predictions for the future. In the words of the bizarre man "An ancient evil rests beneath our waves! Sleeping horrors untold in strange eons with the power to strip our planet clean of all life! An evil as ancient as dread Cthon or the horrid Shug-Niggarauth! Only the gemstone of power can banish it!" He even set a specific date for three months in the future. Somehow, I think that he's going to look very foolish when the world doesn't end.
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' Famed actor's brother arrested! - Erik Williams pleads innocent to embezzlement'''''  ''--(by Barney)''
::: Erik Williams has always been something of the overshadowed brother to his handsomer, more talented, and more successful brother. Whereas Simon Williams is the heir to the William's fortune and a star of stage, Erik Williams has been unable to graduate beyond middling reviews and mostly served at the sufferance of his brother. Erik's only role of note was to play the part of Death in a series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Given the questionable company that Erik keeps, lower class ruffians and harlots, it’s no wonder that got caught with his hand in the till. Charged with taking leave of 30,000 pounds sterling, Erik is likely to spend much of his life behind bars or be exported from this country to a life better than he deserves. Like the criminal scum that he is, Mister Williams pleads his innocence of all charges.  <br> Simon Williams response was noticeably despondent with his stunned reaction being ''"I....can't believe they decided Erik did it."'' Mister Williams was looking dashing that day, despite his mood, with a hand tailored new suit and several bright diamond pieces of jewelry for his latest lady friend.
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' Britain to win Space Race! - Doctor Reeds does it again!'''''  ''--(by Urich)''
::: Doctor Richard Reeds has long been considered Britain's greatest mind for a reason. Now, he has begun designing a device that will change mankind's future forever in the Space Cannon! Ever since Jules Verne put Doctor Reed's theories down into his book 'From the Earth to the Moon', people have treated the pursuit with serious success. Most notable has been the French scientific group the Society for the Advancement of Ideas and Mechanics. Doctor Reed's claims his space gun is likely to be ready in several months. The work has not been without tragedy as Doctor Reeds’ partner Victor Von Dumas was hideously wounded in one of their early experiments with the device in Cambridge. An accident that lead to the latter’s expelling from the venerable institution and return to native Transylvania. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish, as Reeds has certainly carried on well without him. Doctor Reeds has more on his mind than space though since he is soon to be married to one of London's most proper socialites in Miss Suzanna Stormweather.
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' STARKWEATHER LOOMS LARGE - Lord of Industry shows his colors'''''  ''--(by Lumley)''
::: Sweet success strikes Starkweather Industries again this season! Said to have been inspired by Lady Janette Van Dye, AKA. “the Whipsful Wasp”, Starkweather has released a new fabric from his textile factories to the world this spring, and the world cannot have enough. A revolution in the textile industry and manufacturing in general, these oriental inspired designes, seek to capitalize on the next generation of technology of fashion. Leading the charge from Paris to New York, Starkweather is quilting the Empire and beyond with an intricately laid pattern of mosaics in fabric. This reporter had the good fortune to be sneaked into the textile tyrannosaurus factories over a garden party weekend in the company of Britain’s own Anthony Starkweather himself, fashionable playboy and oriental interested eccentric. What my eyes were amazed to witness was the lack of laborers! That's right true believers, in the modern age all one needs to thrive in industry is a stack of holely cards. Some of our lesser educated audience might think me misspelling "holy", mistaken for a religious artifact among the looms of Starweather Industries but that is not the case dear friends. Let me explain. Shown to me by Henry "Hank" Pym, Starkweather’s chief advisor (and amateur inventor), the mechanized machinery that barely resembles your grandmother's loom of yesteryear are controlled by a series of computerized cards, or “Pym-Papers”, driven by a customized Babbage Engine lovingly referred to by Pym as his "ultra-mechanism".  It is unknown to this report just how those paper punched cards wake the machinery into a flurry of fabrication, but it works like a clockwork engine of design. Starkweather has released note that the next fashion trend will be completely divined by the power of the future - contesting this contraption will coordinate the textile fashion design patterns as a part of the intricate programming.  The final product:  Each piece being an original work created in the world's finest silks, thanks to exclusive rights purchased from Starkweather’s Eastern journeys. Even the New World Colonies are hungering for their first 'Starweathers'.  One American Rockefeller lady of note remarked, "I've ordered three dozen, they're to die for!" Will this be the new trend in world domination through fashion? You heard it here first London! 
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME! - Prussian donates 23 new species to Museum'''''  ''--(by Berino)''
::: London's premier Science Museum on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, a part of the National Museum of Science and Industry has had an astounding influx of exhibit donations thanks to the estate of Prussian Gamesman Sergei Kravinoff.  Kravinoff, known for his daring trips into the darkest reaches of the globe, has petitioned for purchase of one of London's brownstone estates just a stroll down from Parliament. The hunter invited Museum directors the rare opportunity to view his personal collection on his Welsh estate on the moors of Baskerville. On their return Kravinoff valeted twelve carriages to return for the donations made. <br> The exhibition, said to house mammals from the past previously unseen, opens next month. A reception and special 'sneak peak' into the species from history will be given to our Prussian Ambassador this next Saturday evening, April 7th.  For guest reservations by special invitation only please contact the Science Museum. 
::* ARTICLE:    <br> ''''' SCOTLAND YARD FLOURISHES FROM THE CRIMEAN WAR - A new operative to route out London's seedy element'''''  ''--(by Barney)''
::: Following his return from the Crimean War a young sergeant has been issued an elevated status within Scotland Yard as a special operative on crime.  Sgt. Francis Kasteel has joined the policing units and become a new husband and father to be all in the space of his first three month return home following his stint in the war. Returning out of the heart of darkness and into the uniform of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's investigative branch, Kasteel brings an Englishman's tenacity with a knowledgeable mastery of modern weapon logy learned on expedition and study in the American west.  Bringing honorary US Marshal status, this man of England hopes to fill the penitentiaries of London with the criminal element. When asked about his methods, Kasteel replied in true secretive




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