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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1877
Page
3
A sacred song and chorus honor Evangelist P P Bliss who died in the Ashtabula railroad disaster. The piece, priced at 40 cents per copy, includes a lithographed title page. Orders addressed to F W Helmick, music dealer, 50 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati Ohio.
The narrator describes a fight with Bill after a missing knife dispute at the wharf. He recalls threatening Bill, a scuffle in which he threw Bill down, a dog bite incident, and the chase after the dog as events escalated and then concluded.
Amusing incident occurs when a deaf elder misinterprets a baptism notice in a Connecticut church. He offers to supply Sunday school books for twenty five cents each, assuming the clergyman asked about non attending families. The tale blends other scattered quotes from science and humor columns.
Henry Warp Beechers reminiscence in the Christian Union recalls Indianapolis growing from about 4 000 residents in 1849 to 110 000, with roads and forests, sermons against death, a moved bishop of flowers, and early editorial work. The piece also offers household tips to preserve oil cloths and notes fashion changes and social manners.
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