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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1895
Page
5
Fragmented verse recalls a ruined dwelling with mossy stones and a hollow, a doorstone, a hawkweed, and a wind from a distant steeple. A preacher’s blazing gaze, singing figures, and fading memory of past lovers mix with florid, tangled imagery and oblique names.
A young Symphorien Baliveau, eager for fame, plots a duel with Martial Rogue after a chance encounter in Paris. He seeks rapid celebrity by sword but faces peril as he bribes tailors and hosiers and learns Rogue’s deadly reputation. The tale ends with Baliveau arranging weapons and money, risking everything for notoriety.
A Paris provincial Symphorien plans a duel as creditors press Roque. Staub and Sakosky offer services. Roque jokes about fame from the encounter. Baliveau seeks notoriety, dines at Cafe de Paris, then departs for home amid public interest before a comic misadventure ends with him drunkenly blocking a streetcar.
In a fragment from Good News a boy hurries home to tell his mother of a dinner arrival. He asks if his father sent the guest, then explains he runs himself ragged to please mamma and ensure a better meal for company.
A sensational ad-like passage decries the plight of Yankee girls and matrons living on hardship. It touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for irregularities, nervous debility, and associated ailments, promising renewed health and vitality.
An English tourist in an Irish town hears a crowd gathering for a hanging and questions a peasant about the man’s crime. The peasant says the man was hanged for joking, exposing the absurdity of the event in a humorous, overheard exchange. The rest of the snippet advertises medical tracts and cures from the World’s Diagnosing Medical Association.
An advertisement touts Dr Hand's Teething Tablets for babies and promotes a bargain offer: Tug Ace and The Ohio Farmer combined for $2.00 per year. The Ohio Farmer is highlighted as a 46 year old publication with extensive farmer-focused content. Orders for the combination go to Tar Acg, Coshocton, Ohio.
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