11 Dec 1877
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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1877
Page
1
An advertisement extols the Waite Jviz sewing machine as lightweight and least complicated among family machines. It highlights high capacity, simple construction, hardened metal parts, dual needle feeds, strong shuttle, dust-free works, minimal oiling, easy maintenance, ornamented cabinet, and claims of reliability from J.C. Waiters, Agent.
Merchants Keefer and Snake announce a refitted room and a full assortment of groceries and provisions offered at the cheapest prices. They deliver free within the city and stock top cigar and tobacco brands. They thank Marion citizens for past favors and invite continued patronage from Miller's Block one door north of Kerr House.
H T Van Fleet offers legal services in Marion and nearby counties with focus on estates and land sales by guardians administrators and executors. Also lists extensive land holdings and properties for sale or trade including farms in multiple counties and towns with maps and circulars available at his Marion Ohio office. Subscription rates for the Star are listed with monthly and weekly options.
The piece lists names of hotel guests and arrivals in Delaware, Mansfield, Cincinnati, and nearby cities, including R B Humphrey and J Zimmerman. It shifts to a satirical dialogue about a coachman fired for blacking up his face to appear Black, his wife’s reaction, and a mother’s sorrowful refusal to chase him, ending with a child’s remark about learning to burn cork.
Centerville Illinois in December 1877 reports a lively local notice about Bill Kniffton of Pucky Huddle moving to town and taking a clerking job. The item mocks gossip and suggests Knifigon knows all town news from Timothy Tugmutton’s store while touting cheap groceries and dry goods.
A Detroit Free Press fragment recalls a boy who says a family secret to a piper, thanking him for stilts while noting his father was away. The line hints at a domestic lesson and the boy’s awkward gratitude amid a tense moment.
A barefooted boy steps on a bee and tells his mother that bees have splinters in their tails, revealing a child's literal take on the sting as a tactile splinter. The anecdote captures rural, family life with simple humor and curiosity.
A man known as an inveterate smoker for twenty years abruptly stops smoking after startlingly dumping ashes from his pipe into a keg of blasting powder. The accident caused a dramatic scene with potential danger but no reported injuries.
A farmer contemplates producing about a thousand bushels of wheat each year and selling one bushel to a thousand different buyers. He hopes the plan will help him understand publishing a country newspaper on a credit system.
After the circus parade two small boys met on the street. One boy exclaimed with excitement about the snakes around a performer's neck and a lion's cage, while the other, Johnny, remained silent, eyes clouded with a frown, as they exchanged glances and shy remarks.
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