Allured and Betrayed Ants Wander in Darkened Realities
A poetic fragment questions what fate awaits the small figures as they wander through sorrowful shadows. It contrasts bleak peril with the promise of peaceful, sunlit realities beyond the mire.
12 Mar 1868
Page 1
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1868
Page
1
A poetic fragment questions what fate awaits the small figures as they wander through sorrowful shadows. It contrasts bleak peril with the promise of peaceful, sunlit realities beyond the mire.
A humorous tale from Cincinnati describes a Hoosier visiting a fan shop and proposing a job by chewing a handkerchief for paper. The proprietor, feigning seriousness, offers the odd task and the Hoosier exits with a quip about returning the chewed rag after use.
A festival question on life’s happiest season sparks a host’s reflection. He notes a grove before a dwelling, where spring blossoms, summer foliage, and autumn fruit prompt beauty thoughts, and even winter stars shine through leafless branches.
In an October moonlit doorway at Viatey Farm, Robert Grey asks Alice Burt’s guardian Mrs. Raymond for permission to wed. A pale phantom with Wallace Burt’s scar haunts the scene, yet Alice and Robert marry and face a surgeon’s letter revealing Burt survived.
A staged duel in Dayton featured two battalions representing Union and Confederate troops with Maj Gen P O’Connell and Lt Gen W H Martin leading their forces. Cadets from the Military Institute operated rebel batteries, and Adam Miller’s band played Dixie as the Federal line offered stubborn resistance before the Rebels capitulated in military fashion.
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