13 May 1880
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1880
Page
1
A reflective poem in narrative voice on turning fifty, recalling childhood fears of aging and the nurse grandmother, contrasting youth’s playful joys with mature duties. The speaker embraces aging, celebrates enduring love, memory, and the resilience of the spirit through duty, family, and hope.
Mrs. Meredith hurries to ready a dinner for a Chicago cousin while a new maid named Martha arrives from St Char's intelligence bureau. Tom teases, but Martha proves skilled, making a lobster salad as Charles frets over a missing cousin. A comic domestic mix up ends with Martha revealed as the cousin from Chicago.
Telegraph writing may be replaced by the writing telegraph between Waterloo and Working. The instrument writes messages automatically on paper rolls and can be cut and sent to destinations, avoiding receiver delays. In Washington fashions, Indies wear dresses for two seasons and repeat three outfits weekly, with the young set favoring black illusion and white lace gowns. A sparrow nest built above a depot gong at Williamsport disrupts departures, while Henry Vincent recalled Lincoln's death story told by a Wayside observer.
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