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Newspaper
Corunna Headlight
Location
Corunna, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1885
Page
13
The poem narrates a speaker tracing a name, year, and date in sand, watching the tide erase marks yet affirming a lasting record before God. It reflects on mortality, memory, and the desire to leave significance beyond a fleeting earthly trace amid ocean imagery.
Waterloo Fair steps off next Monday as local items highlight a cattle-guard accident near Brimfield where a girl was killed by a westbound train. Corunna sees community updates with new school plans, Mrs McCullough's death, and a Corunna resident starting a cottage build. Coroner warrants investigation into the aconite poisoning case.
John R. Shelton of Atlanta elopes with Ida Maxwell, daughter of John Maxwell. They marry. the bride’s father and brother intervene to take her home. Maxwell is fatally struck with a hatchet by Shelton and others exchange shots, leaving both sides mortally wounded. In San Francisco Chinatown a coroner finds a cellar full of skulls and bones being boiled and packed for shipment to China, with over 300 remains from cemeteries. Nearby, 500 feet of the West Shore Road track near Kingston, New York sank twenty feet due to quicksand on the 17th.
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