29 Mar 1883
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1883
Page
1
A poetic meditation on mortality and renewal. The speaker compares a mortal spirit trapped by sin to a flower bending at night, then envisioning dawn lifting it to joy. Love endures beyond earthly death, its harmony swelling like a universal chorus.
A long, fragmentary chronicle recounts Dublin Indiana’s early settlers and businesses. It covers Pike and Schoolfield families, first houses and taverns, early trades like cabinet making and blacksmithing, the Dublin Academy, a Female Seminary, and the first watch history. It ends with a comic mock-forecast of a windstorm by Brown and Bel1aw.
The article discusses thrift and industry as keys to a stable marriage and domestic happiness, criticizing mothers who send daughters abroad for education while neglecting practical household economy. It notes floods in Ohio valley towns like Shawneetown, Blackburn, Raleigh, Columbus, and the impact on commerce, and closes with a series of aphorisms on time, virtue, and self discipline.
Delaware Indians traveling from Ohio to Kansas camped west of Dublin along the National Road. They begged for whisky at Schoolfield's, who refused and fed them bread instead. Tensions rose as the group threatened with a scalping knife, then Schoolfield and Jesse Pike acted to remove them from the premises. Samuel Schoolfield kept whisky in his tavern but sold it sparingly to travelers. Jesse Boswell opened the rat hate need hop in Dublin.
American Agriculturist urges farmers to prepare now for spring sowing and planting. Ensure all plow points, whiffle trees, harrows, rakes, forks, and other essential tools are on hand and in good order to avoid field delays. Plan ahead to avoid last minute buying or borrowing during peak season. In winter’s calm, prepare for spring’s busy work.
A promotional note extols Dr J C Ayer Co and their Cathartic Pills as a safe sure and best purgative medicine of the age. The ad asserts reliability and effectiveness in cleansing the system and maintaining health.
A late session bill tightens the postal money order system authorizing postmasters to issue postal notes of five dollars or less payable to bearer on engraved paper and valid for three months. The holder may claim par value after three months by contacting Washington. A three cent issuing fee applies. Money orders up to one hundred dollars are allowed with escalating fees from eight to forty five cents across ranges.
A boy being catechised about religious fitness at a high school answers six gods. The irate professor threatens punishment, and the boy bolts. A belated pupil clarifies there is one God, warning the new student to go up there with his one God or face Hadess.
Ad claims a perfect success for Dr Jones' Red Clover Tonic curing dyspepsia biliousness costiveness and all kidney liver and bladder diseases asserting a perfect tonic effect despite the unclear promotional language and damaged OCR text.
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