18 Dec 1868
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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1868
Page
1
A long fragment narrates a dramatic scene with a skull and graveyard imagery, shifting to a dialogue in a boarding house. It follows Herbert Bond and his employer Mr Hudson, a tense visit, and a late-night gathering that ends with a failed revelry and reflections on home, fate, and virtue amid memory of a vanished era.
A fragmented page lists box dimensions and capacities from an era arithmetic table, detailing volumes for barrels, pecks, gallons and quarts. It also includes moral prose about a real gentleman, a short anecdote about obedience and a switch tender, and notes on railroad leasing and a satirical quip about music.
In Merryport a crockery store owned by Benjamin Hudson stands as a city landmark. As Hudson grows older and eyes dim, he seeks a partner from among his two trusted clerks, Herbert Bond and Charles Seymour, pondering who can shoulder the business future. He visits their boarding-house lad to weigh who will join him, while noting their solid work and lack of origins.
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