From barren heights their sweetness we remember
A reflective verse fragment recalls wistful longing and nostalgic days. The speaker laments December snows and recalls Theswainer’s sunny skills and bright hours as if from a faded fairy lore page.
17 Aug 1870
Page 1
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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1870
Page
1
A reflective verse fragment recalls wistful longing and nostalgic days. The speaker laments December snows and recalls Theswainer’s sunny skills and bright hours as if from a faded fairy lore page.
A fragmentary verse laments seeking distant adventures and cool refreshment, imagining iceberg voyages and a midday garden scene as a whimsical longing. The speaker yearns for a valed journey to polar lands beyond the cucumbers.
In a Kentucky mansion tale, Helen Howard, heiress to wealth, rejects Guy Westervelt who loves her. He leaves for India for five years after a quarrel over love and money. He returns wealthy and they reunite at a ball, finding happiness at last.
A collage of humorous items and anecdotes from a 19th century newspaper page. Jokes about doctors, lawyers, farmers, and a Grecian girl named Mary appear alongside puns, light poems, and a short tale of an irishman seeking work. The tone is witty and conversational, reflecting a domestic humor section.
A disconsolate widower watched his wife laid to rest and cried that he had lost hogs and cows but nothing cut him as deeply as her death. The poignant moment captures a man overwhelmed by loss and tenderness.
A Boston Advertiser correspondent argues that if royal lineage still drives policy England faces a German dilemma. The Queen’s German husband and relatives shape policy while the Princess of Wales and the queen’s daughters stir cross nation tensions with Prussia and Denmark.
A man was found dead in Paris with his mattress containing 380000 francs. Each morning he left home armed with bread and, after a stroll through the market, sampled fruit cheese and fish before buying his meal, a routine that formed his chief sustenance.
During a spiritual seance the medium revealed the spirits’ favorite amusement in the afterlife. The answer given was that reading obituary notices amuses the departed.
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