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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1860
Page
1
A haunting verse from Harper's Magazine depicts a parent’s fear and grief for a missing baby in a prairie setting. The speaker imagines wolves and serpents threatening the child, then finds relief as a hopeful cry returns, ending with a solemn, protective resolve.
A narrator recalls teaching the deaf and dumb alphabet to two boys and later using sign language with her husband Frank to outsmart a burglar who sneaked into their bedroom. The thief is captured, and the tale ends with a reminder of the usefulness of learning the alphabet.
The piece extols the “nice girl” as lively good hearted and domestic. It contrasts her with fashionable beauties and opera goers, praising her morning care, simple dress, and affectionate family kisses that mark her essential, unseen role at home.
The Bucyrus Journal humorously defines billiards as a game of two men in shirtsleeves hitting balls on a table while paying a keeper twenty cents or asking him to mark it. It notes markers gain status, hints at high costs to become a top player, and jokes that crafts like blacksmiths and carpenters play for exercise.
Canton correspondent of the Tribune recounts a harsh personal impression of Chinese peasantry. He describes them as hideous regardless of age or status, rotting in rags with dirt encrusted faces and limbs, utter poverty shaping a desolate view contrary to romantic notions.
A Wolverhampton Chronicle correspondent recounts a hermit living eleven winters in a ruined mansion near Stevenage, within thirty miles of London. The recluse, once genteel, survives on bread and milk, shelters on two sheepskins, and shuns ablution, yet remains courteous and educated in conversation, while his darkened cell and animal companions draw pity and curiosity.
A young man M H Booker from Montgomery County's Crawfordsville area returned from Missouri to find his father mother and two sisters gone five years earlier headed to Ohio Middletown. He has spent all his money and lacks friends or means. He hopes exchanges will publish to aid locating his family Booher Booher.
Sparta Herald reports a large elk driven to the depot last week after being shot by a hunter from Fond du Lac. The native forest animal weighed just over five hundred pounds and boasted antlers extending five feet with six prongs.
Aspinwall et al v Commissioners of DavIess County asks if an 1849 county stock subscription binds the state. The Supreme Court holds the contract invalid, voiding the bonds and coupons, on grounds the Indiana Constitution forbids such contracts and county authority lacks private contract character. Judah, Vinton & Benjamin represent plaintiffs. McDonald & Porter defend.
A New York Journal of Commerce item prints a humorous job inquiry letter from Bic Tacer of Wilkes County Georgia. The applicant boasts skill in single or double entry while recounting a ridiculous personal incident, ending with a signoff from F. S. HirShreeper.
Letters from Paris claim the elderly Prince Jerome is frail while the Emperor shows few visits to the Palais Royal. Reports say Jerome pressed the Emperor with demands for favors and the Emperor rejected them with calm politeness.
The New York Commercial reports a New Jersey man raises frogs in pounds and markets them for table use at one dollar per hundred.
A New York Tribune observer from Lord's Valley Pa recalls a comic peeling season episode where two toads shed their skins and end up exchanging garments. The large toad and a small one swallowed each other’s clothes, later vomiting them up. the small one dressed first, while the big one cursed the loss and tried on oversized attire with comic ineptitude. The story ends with the big toad missing and the swindler seen a year later in clothes that no longer fit.
In New York a lecturer recalls H W Brecuer as a longtime Anti Slavery advocate who once served as a Cincinnati special policeman guarding Black homes. He preached the first anti slavery sermon in Indiana at Indianapolis and has remained devoted to the cause for decades. A New York Assembly bill on wills limits bequests to associations, requiring two months’ prior execution.
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