25 May 1854
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Newspaper
Aurora Weekly Standard
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1854
Page
1
A reflective piece urging respect for life and the cultivation of grace amid toil. It argues work should fund a life of dignity, learning, and humane aims, criticizing narrow Mammon values and praising steady shifts toward leisure used for higher pursuits and social virtue.
Local business notices for Aurora Indiana list dealers in dry goods clothing boots hats and caps. Names include G K Stration J Pearson Vean Cobb Cohen Epstein Bloom and many others with addresses on Judiciary Main Second and Third streets plus references to law firms and a partitioned Transion House. Notes mention bootmakers hatters and shoemakers along with general merchandise sales and services in the period.
A short anecdote from a classroom shows a six year old correctly reading Rooster from a picture and another boy exclaiming he has seen an elephant's skin. The fragment ends with a moral note on choosing a life path, urging thought of both crowns and thorns.
A village tale recounts Uncle Reuben denying profanity and aiding Windham against slander. A minister, clergymen, and storekeepers probe rumors, uncover a false accusation about an attempted murder, and unite villagers in forgiveness after the truth surfaces.
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