27 Sep 1860
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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1860
Page
1
The notice outlines ad rates for single and multiple insertions, yearly and quarterly plans, and charges for political candidates. It requires advance payment for transient ads and quarterly settlement for others, with standard insertion continued unless ordered out. Ads must be handed in by Tuesday at 10 o'clock a.m. unless a time is specified.
The piece extols building a neat simple cottage amid trees and flowers as a moral and spiritual good. It urges beauty, order, and contentment to improve character, with images of fragrance brightness and a vine clad arbor. A home daily life and lasting impression on the soul are emphasized.
In November a broker named George Richardson vanishes in dense fog while traveling to Leghorn. He drowns after misjudging the river and a later inquest links the body to a man named Macfarlane. Insurance records reveal a fraudulent scheme involving the death and a widow in foreign travel.
A Fern critique cites awe as the finest sensation a wife can wield to govern her husband. The comments describe intimate domestic acts from trimming whiskers to dressing, cooking at night, and playful shaming of a man’s vanity and sleep habits.
A fragment describes A'pourriciax who lacks resources and clings to any great momentary stir, likened to a hungry shark chasing a ship’s wake for spare provisions, limbs, and even old sheds offered overboard.
Bayard Taylor describes Murray Bay as the fashionable northern watering place and Kakouna as the southern counterpart. He recounts a conversation with a Canadian official who laments government contract flaws and corruption, noting Canadians conceal or ignore misconduct while Americans loudly protest.
A reflective essay extols small things as beautiful and joyful noting little homes villages fortunes hopes words charities lakes hearts books songs and nature. It contrasts grandity with littleness and calls Life and time to be composed of small moments and creatures.
In a New York Historical Society address Benjamin Franklin is hailed as the father of the American Union. The speaker credits him with founding the Albany plan and the 1774 Congress, praising his wisdom and diplomatic skill as unmatched in the eighteenth century.
Fragmentary OCR describes a Janesville figure and associates counting harvests with a city event. Names and details are unclear but imply a local member and participants involved in tallying or reaping actions.
Tabulated figures from Indiana Masonic proceedings show Grand Lodge lodges 264 plus 1 under dispensation and 9 728 members with 6 621 72 dollars revenue and 5 859 76 expenditures. Grand Chapter reports 41 chartered chapters 2 under dispensation 1 534 members and 2 095 40 revenue with 1 794 64 expenditures. Grand Council lists 12 councils 386 members and 235 50 revenue 255 80 expenditures. Grand Commandery reports 7 commanderies 216 members with 273 71 revenue and 255 99 expenditures.
The fair opens October 15 near Indianapolis with prizes totaling 12,000 dollars. Top awards include 200 for Best Stallion, 100 for Best Mare, 200 for Best Stallion and five Colts, 200 for Best Bull and five calves, 100 for Best Jack, 50 for Best Jennet, 75 for Best Boar, and 300 for Best Improved Stock Farm. The first stock premiums start at 59 dollars, and farm prizes cover 150 acres or more down to smaller plots.
A reflective passage on mortality and the transience of life. The speaker, a fine writer, notes that so it has always been and will be, as nature endures and graves lie beneath bright heavens. Future generations will forget our names, and yet life continues with laughter and remembrance fading.
The notice outlines election dates in various locales with polling days in October and the Presidential election set for November. It mentions Minneola and Iowa as regions with polling on October 8 and October 2 respectively, while most states vote on Tuesday November 6.
Seth Thomas of Plymouth Hollow Connecticut died eighteen months ago leaving an estate valued between 490000 and 690000 and six children as heirs. With no will the estate passed equally to the children who, without lawyers, hired no judge and divided the property into six equal portions then auctioned them among themselves with premiums shared equally.
The London correspondent notes Lord Lovelace’s heir, now Bar on Wentworth, has been earning weekly wages as a smith in Woolrich Arsenal. This unusual fate for an Earl’s son contrasts with his sister, Ada Byron’s heirship of much of Lady Byron’s personal property and her own noted talents.
A newspaper typo caused a stage advertising display for patent medicine to appear in print. An Indianapolis foreman misplaced a display line, and the paper ran the phrase Through by Daylight Braggs Celebrated Pills, provoking amusement among readers.
The article recalls a Watertown husband and father guiding his delicate daughter after personal tragedy. It notes Harriet Hosmer, once seen as delicate, became the sculptor chosen by St. Louis residents to carve a marble statue of Thomas Benton, illustrating a rise from perceived fragility to public achievement.
About a year after a Raf fans assault left a young man with head wounds causing paralysis epilepsy and idiocy a trepanning operation at Richmond recently relieved the brain. In the brief procedure the semiparalyzed epileptic idiot regained reason and use of his limbs as the depressed bone was removed.
A fragment discusses the mind’s grasp of vast time, arguing time has no beginning or end and cannot be multiplied or added. It claims even billions of years cannot alter a fixed whole, and all calculations are lost beyond human conception.
An Asortxa Kansas paper notes the old well has given out and urges the city fathers to build a good well that could serve all. It claims water would soon be cheap enough to drink and could attract many residents to use it as a beverage.
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