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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1877
Page
3
The verses praise the move from turnpikes to rail and road travel. It laments the old roads fading as iron rails span rivers, hills, and mountains, creating a fast new era of transportation. The speaker notes the coach and coach horses replaced by steam power, while the world revolves around railway progress and a dominant iron hub.
A young music student visits Miss Ballendrant in a desolate home. Her deaf father and the girl’s secret burden drive a tragedy as violin strings shatter and his death reveals a tale of concealed heartbreak. The narrator aids Camille Ballendrant and offers a hopeful future as companion to a traveling mistress.
The commission learns Sitting Bull holds Martin Ryan, a corporal of Company I, Seventh Cavalry, captured at Little Big Horn, as a prisoner. Ryan is reportedly adopted as a war chief, married to Sitting Bull’s daughter, and known as the White Chief among the Sioux. Other claimed Custer men are said to be held, but Ryan’s case is the only verified one.
In Moscow the censor ship episode ends with the Teatrailnaia Gazette punished. A Press Bureau officer arrives to summon the editor and sub editors. The publisher answers by presenting scissors and paste as if the editors were material. All four are arrested and taken to the police station.
Gen Komaroff, once chief of staff to Gen Tchernareff in Servia, is said to have survived battle due to a holy image worn on his chest. A second general reportedly avoided death when a folded newspaper placed under his tunic diverted a bullet. The miracle narrative credits the paper and image with saving lives.
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