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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1878
Page
2
A reader spent a year searching for and arranging thirty eight lines from English and American poets. The compilation presents verses on life, time, fortune, ambition, and mortality, with many misprints and attributions. The piece reads as if by one author, centering on life’s fragility and the search for meaning.
Detroit Free Press reports a wild method where an Town man hid gunpowder to explode a gathering of cats after luring them with milk. He counted thirty one cats before the blast, noting the scattered remains as proof. In Brussels Belgium milk carts are driven by women.
The piece argues against judging insurers by bulk assets and highlights Radix findings praising Ztua Life Insurance Company of Hartford. It notes about twenty four million in assets and four and a quarter million surplus, with Connecticut legislative commission acclaiming its solvency, leadership, and trustworthiness.
In Farwell Michigan a Flint and Pere Marquette locomotive was driven by wagon road to Muskegon log haulage site. After two hundred dollars failed, workers hauled water and used levers to fuel steam as the engine moved along the Iowa and Houghton Lake State road amid cheers.
A poor ill woman in a bare Sheffield home was told by a doctor she would not recover and should be buried. He wrote a burial certificate, yet she surprisingly improved and fully recovered, now carrying the certificate as a reminder.
Miss Alice McKee faced a constable attempting to levy on her furniture after rent nonpayment. She claimed lack of writ authority and, when pressed, fired and killed the intruder. Trial showed exempt furniture and the intruder’s show of writ dubious. the jury acquitted her at once.
During RR V Pierce’s bid for State solicitor opponents published a forged analysis of popular medicines to sway voters. The rebuked candidate faces renewed republishing of those deceitful analyses by rivals who seek to undermine his integrity.
Major Inman extols central Kansas limestone belt as ideal wheat soil. He cites soil calcareous content, moisture resilience, and superior flour quality, arguing region near Smoky Hill Valley offers unmatched fertility and future agricultural wealth. Government rainfall data and railway immigration policy bolster claim.
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