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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1883
Page
4
A nostalgic speaker recalls childhood days at the old front door watching family life unfold. He remembers his father guiding the bride, his grandfather’s death, and his own aging, with tears at the thought of those long past moments. The poem ends with a wish to return to the sill of the old front door before passage.
A Framing poem depicts a traveler hearing the Gospel Train approaching the afterlife. The speaker, with Uncle Remus imagery, envisions familiar figures like Si and a newsboy, riding the silver cross ties to gate open heaven.
In a tale of secret wounds, Tom Charlesworth forgives Elsie Wallace after a tragic love triangle. Elsie dies, and Charlesworth raises her daughter Margaret, who grows into a capable, loving young woman. Margaret then reveals her love for Charlesworth, ending in their shared future. A final note adds a medical antidote aside about rattlesnake poison.
A satirical scene with a missionary visitor and a freckled girl in a parlor illumes class tention over charity and consumption. Uncle Dick’s boisterous wit and improper talk spark mockery of missionary virtue as domestic life unfolds into a sociable visit. The piece ends with a long digression explaining how crossing the Pacific drops or adds a day due to longitude and global time reckoning.
A Toronto man built a refuge during the Wiggins tornado, and ten days of hard labor later he plans equal effort with a meat axe to recover his efforts as winter ground remains frozen. The tale shifts to a San Francisco Argonaut item about a woden leg and a peculiar pond incident involving Mister Jonnice.
Agent Gaylord and Halde man visited the Siamese King to buy or lease a white elephant for Barnum. The King deferred a decision after consulting officials and priests. Barnum sent $100,000, with money no object if an elephant can be secured.
A household bean soup method uses black beans soaked overnight then simmered with pork, onions, carrot, potatoes, red pepper and water, finished with butter and flour. A Virginia convention joke references a delegate urging the chairman to take Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for his hoarseness.
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