Sunshine After Rain Brings Hopeful Resolve
The verse ponders why troubles linger yet affirms faith in humanity. It contrasts ongoing struggle with the promise that sunshine follows rain and dark clouds pass, urging resilience and optimism today.
12 Jul 1888
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1888
Page
1
The verse ponders why troubles linger yet affirms faith in humanity. It contrasts ongoing struggle with the promise that sunshine follows rain and dark clouds pass, urging resilience and optimism today.
A quarrelsome wife nicknamed Missus scolds her husband Sam Loud over chores and town trips. A stranger offers Sam money to help him escape to Kingslow, leading to Sam’s fatal shooting and disappearance. Missus faces loneliness, then learns Sam’s mercy in a dangerous ruse and his return with the very cotton he promised.
In a Texas Siftings vignette a wife recalls accusing neighbor Schmidt of theft to deter a potential loan request. The husband supports the plan, noting Schmidt’s recent friendliness had sparked fear of begging money, leading to insults to head him off.
A historic elm in the grounds of Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia is described as a remnant of the famed tree under which William Penn held the first treaty with the Indians. The article notes its connection to early colonial diplomacy and the local landmark status.
Wisconsin and New Jersey opened the Gettysburg reunion with monuments dedicated to fallen soldiers. Senator Spooner gave the address as Governor Rusk handed Wisconsin markers to the Battlefield Memorial Association, with Longstreet and Sickles among notable attendees. New Jersey followed with thirteen monuments near Round Top as crowds filled the town and veterans spoke of valor and unity.
Crowds witnessed a grand reunion at Gettysburg as veterans of the Union and Confederate armies gathered at the National Cemetery. General Sickles and Slocum spoke as regimental monuments were dedicated, while Governor Beaver and ex-Senator Warner Miller attended amid cheers and applause. A later ceremony featured George William Curtis delivering the oration and Mrs Pickett’s telegram read to the crowd.
Three Burlington ex engineers were arrested at Aurora Illinois with four dynamite cartridges in a train car amid a claimed planned attack on Burlington Road property including trains and depots. Warrants, shadows by Pinkerton and deputies led to the capture and a 35009 bond for each until examination on the 1th inst. They deny involvement.
A cyclone roared through May's Grove and other Iowa towns injuring several. Belmond, What Cheer, and Emmittsburg report damaged depots, blown roofs, and two suspected fatalities. In Pennsylvania, a tannery boiler explosion at Allegheny City injured six, with three likely to die, and total damage around $20,000.
At Water Valley Mississippi on July 6 a grand stand seating 300 to 400 collapsed during a fair crowd estimate of 1500. The wreck trapped men women and children before survivors freed the injured. Dozens suffered broken arms legs and bruises with graphic injuries feared for some.
In Boston on July 6 the Volunteer balloon ascended from Boston Common with Prof. Rogers M.S. Eary and others aboard. It sank after an initial rise, Eary fell out, then the airship descended again over the water where Rose G. yacht rescued the three occupants after a four mile chase.
About 20,000 people attended a Trades and Labor Assembly picnic at St. Joseph fairgrounds. Golden Holman, a Chicago Burlington & Quincy engineer, fired on pursuing crowds twice, wounding Dick Harrigan, a 19 year old butcher, in the left lung. Holman later surrendered. Harrigan is expected to die.
In Wannhorn Connecticut the Etna Life Insurance Company pushed a libel case against editor D C Birdsall. He faced criminal libel charges in police court with bonds raised to 1500 dollars and 5000 dollars for two weeks adjournment. Telegram offices in Hartford New Britain and Meriden refused printing duties.
In Salt Lake City Utah on July 6 the Fourth of July was celebrated jointly by Mormons and Gentiles. A morning parade featured six companies of the Sixteenth Infantry and a Liberty Park program included prayers read by Mormons. Governor West Chief Justice Zane and Judge Goodwin aired speeches at the exercises. The inclusive event marks a shift from past hostility to affiliation.
Representative McKinley predicts the tariff bill will pass in about two weeks. He notes no Republican agreement on blocking debate, but doubts lengthy opposition. Four to six weeks remain for money and general bills before possible adjournment amid ongoing committee actions.
In Pittsburgh a coalition of druggists milk and lemonade dealers and fruit-stand owners forms to enforce the 1794 Blue Laws. An ex-city official will gather evidence and file informations over Sunday labor. Prosecutions begin next week targeting street car companies newspapers publishers and even livery drivers. Projections of outcomes cause anxiety as authorities prepare to act.
In Cuicano July 7 the Wagner Palace Car Company is restored to use of the vestibule car and all related devices. Judges Gresham and Blodgett dissolve the temporary injunction, stopping ongoing proceedings until the case proceeds to trial in the regular schedule, likely over a year away.
A telegraph error caused two passenger trains at Bubebach Station eight miles from Wilkesbarre to collide while traveling at twenty five miles an hour. Both engines plunged into the Susquehanna. engineers and firemen escaped with minor injuries. Fifteen passengers were badly hurt, three fatally: R Raefel, John Search, and Samuel Crotzer, all from Nanticoke, Pa. The wounded were taken to Nanticoke.
In Montreal on July 7 creditors and customers of the逃absconding carriage maker Quesne discovered that over half of the paper he left behind is forged. One large creditor reports only about 5,000 of 40,000 in paper genuine. Another notes two small notes of 75 dollars each as genuine, while a money broker who advanced 8,000 dollars holds a high share of forgeries. The firm’s book-keeper admitted long running fraud and forging signatures. he has been arrested.
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