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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1877
Page
4
A fragmented literary excerpt contemplates life as brief and shifting. Quoted lines from Shakespeare Pope Longfellow and others evoke youth’s glow, swiftly fading into night as time passes like a shadow growing longer.
A stormy night at a remote railroad depot leaves Braithwaite alone with a heavily sealed twenty thousand dollar package. Two masked men in shaggy coats attempt a break in as they plot an entrance to seize the money, while Braithwaite locks the package in the office and plans his next move.
A hotel clerk telegraphs for help during a moonlit robbery attempt at a depot. The narrator, faced with two armed men and a breached door, uses the line to summon aid from George, defending the safe with a poker until town boys capture the assailants. The tale ends with a pistol purchase and a warning to beware robbers.
A Bangor Commercial recounts a White Hills romance where a shy college professor later reunites with his old sweetheart, now a silver-haired widow, in a tender farewell kiss. The piece also covers General Miles on Nez Perces, a Des Moines case of a comatose patient, Miss Gagan’s recovered voice, a San Francisco eccentric exiled for Don Carlos support, and a reflection on why brilliant men may wane before their wives.
A Piute killed his squaw, with Winnemucca Silver State noting tribal custom treats the squaw as property and authorities rarely intervene. The Bishop Margin remark on possible posthumous astronomy. A Benton Ohio rivalry murder by E H Knapp. Dr H K Knott slain. Church collapse in Shropshire after 700 years. Bangor man paid 1.50 for chicken theft 15 years prior. Dove postal cards gain use in Europe. Italian government has confiscated Church property valued at 2106,000,000 over ten years.
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