04 Jun 1874
Page 4
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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1874
Page
4
A damaged excerpt shows a child sobbing and confessing to breaking a toy. The speaker laments the accident and pleads for help to repair or replace it, revealing distress and urgency through fragmented lines.
A letter criticizes persistent requests from literary “cor respondents” to republish poems found in school readers. An Oakland subscriber asks for a pastoral about Mary’s little lamb, prompting a quoted muddled verse about a diminutive sheep and Mary. The piece notes repeated petitions and mocks the notion of republishing familiar verses.
The editor reports at Vincennes Indiana that a premium was offered to spell correctly five percent of a list of words. Of eighty nine teachers present only one met the target, thirty nine misspelled more than half, and one misspelled none.
A glass pickle bottle acts as the main chamber with a Florence oil flask inserted neck down. Water rises in fine weather and falls in wet or windy conditions, dipping toward the flask mouth before storms. The device, made by a German and shared with a London journal, serves as a simple barometer.
An obituary note lauds Anthony Mink with a terse epitaph emphasizing his kindness and straightforward nature. It lightly mocks haphazard wording in epitaphs and mentions a quirky anecdote about an unrelated household item. A measles outbreak is referenced in Connecticut with Haddam singled out as calm.
The General Conference adopts the minority temperance amendment, barring from church membership anyone who makes buys sells or uses intoxicants upon conviction. Adoption sends to Annual Conferences for potential passage into law by three fourths.
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