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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Times
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1875
Page
3
The passage echoes a Cincinnati Daily Times style monologue with dialect voices and rustic banter. It depicts a traveling scene with recollections of a woman named Dinah, a black angel return, and a wrestlin match reference. The narrator speaker blends sorrow, humor, and local color in a fragmentary social vignette.
A reader sent in a garbled item about a Michigan street incident involving a clerk apologizing for stock, a breakfast powder query, and a man returning home on a Lake train with whitewash on his hands. The fragment references Central Station and Goodbeag Street, with names like William Goodheart appearing amid the confusion.
A King visits a village school where a bright girl answers a lesson about the kingdoms of nature and heaven. The scene moves from childlike wit to a solemn moment as the crowd mourns a mother, while street scenes and funeral impressions follow with scattered vignettes of daily life and fashion.
The article fragment mentions a debutante in Urbana described as rich and strong, and a bridge at Leesburg recently damaged by fire, with torn timbers and scattered shingles. It references a Rev A O Mays and various societies, plus notices about local educators and public events, all in incomplete form.
A fragmentary item notes Indiana events including the forty sixth commencement at the State University and discussions involving the Bacyrus mowing and reaping machine works with plans possibly to Terre Haute. The text preserves names and places but is incomplete.
A fragmentary 19th century report notes a planned preacher visit by a Chicago figure at Rossville Vermilion County on a Wednesday. It mentions postmistress Graves and local helpers, plus a biographical line on Levi H. Rood, a Sheridan pioneer. Also touches destitution cases in East St. Louis and Bloomington experiments with work on city streets reducing vagrancy and crime.
General Belknap the Secretary of War is expected at Burlingtons Fourth of July celebration. Scott County Court awaits thirteen couples to untie their matrimonial knots. Miss Marian Murdock of Elkader recently graduated at the Boston School Oratory and returned home. A Sioux City doctor apologizes for shaving his hair as the new style spreads to Chicago and the East. Wagner the murderer of Rhomberg has been discharged from the Independence Insane Asylum and now works in that city.
A fragment from a 19th century paper notes twenty temperance societies in Wind du Lac and a Janesville fair forthcoming. It mentions Madison area activity including a St Lutheran Church organ project and state teacher certificates due August 1. Reports Oshkosh store closure, Biz River coffee house opening in July, and Racine County fair dates. A Dover trout theft and a trout pond incident near Brook are listed, with partial names and places.
The Dakota Agricultural Society held its spring fair at Farmington from September 29 to October. One day last week sixteen tests engaged in breaking prairie between Lewiston and Cannon Falls. John S. Ingram, Chief of Police of Manifold, sues Alderman Villers of Fargo for libel seeking $10,000 in damages.
Union picnics at Orton unite denominations in peace roving together. Marquette liquor dealer assessment totals 6100 citywide. Romeo Congregational Society backs $90000 subscription for new building. Ypsilanti insurance suits from May Robinson policies compromised. End Haven citizens contribute 1000 for prizes to be rowed in August regattas. Timothy Dupn of Bedfi released after governor clemency due to ill health following a 1855 manslaughter case.
Berks County entries report several items including a church anniversary in Talpebocken and real estate assessments, while a California man is jailed on incest charges. Arrests of six burglars tied to Cambria and nearby towns are noted, with various local obituaries and incidents across Crawford, Beaver, Bedford, and Schuylkill regions.
A ragged courtroom tableau unfolds with Bijah sweeping cobwebs, a boy defending leather, and a bustling judge questioning Jane and Kitty Long. The Hull case features Lew Hull blaming his wife while a sharp voice scolds, leading to a six month sentence and a tumultuous pair of judgments.
Andrew Jackson of No 19th Street Brooklyn died after a weeks long struggle with hydrophobia. He kept a dog owned by his employer nearby and was bitten when the animal leaped to grab a stick. Despite treatment and morphine attempts to ease pain, Jackson suffered escalating spasms, delirium, and choking fits until death. The case echoes earlier hydrophobia reports in the city.
The piece extols national heritage and the Concord scene, praising Hawthorne’s Septimius Falcon for romantic village significance and recounting scenes of Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. It lauds Sidney’s water cup gesture and a dying soldier’s loyalty, arguing America is classic ground that fuels imagination.
The village school summer session has begun and the prior academic year is described as very successful. Street improvements on Shiltitg Street are finished, and a telegraph office is being pursued with talks held with the Atlantic and Pacific Company. If established, the telegraph office would be at Lambert's grocery. Deer Park Maryland attracts Avondalians seeking mountain air and railroad sightseeing during the summer.
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