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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1877
Page
3
A survey of laws on property and wills for married women across U S states notes Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Rhode Island grant separate estates with varying protections from husband debts. It details wills requiring witnesses and the husband’s consent in some states and full control by wives in others.
The article notes that married women may manage property and earn income without their husbands consent, and that a wife’s separate property is protected from her husband’s debts in several states. It cites that wills must be executed in the testator’s presence with two witnesses and reflects legal views from the Troy Times.
The passage urges living with purpose rather than idle ease, praising truth as the root of eloquence and condemning mere rhetoric. It contrasts character over wealth, noting charity grows with knowledge, and warns against fashion and artificial life divorced from depth and sincerity.
The piece muses on waiters and doubles among public men and clergy seen in Grace Church area eateries. It notes the uncanny likenesses to doctors and bishops and argues facial appearance may hide a lack of firmness or character, hinting that fame often rests on strong mechanical faculties rather than moral stamina.
Reports reveal brutal neglect at the Reformatory for Native Boys near Kingston Jamaica. A clergyman superintendent misused funds starving inmates and feeding pigs, with many boys suffering severe injuries from ticks and neglect. Investigations prompt strong condemnation by Lord Carnarvon.
The Lotus steamship carrying 1671 bales of cotton and 625 of cotton seed from Red River to New Orleans caught fire in the aft gangway near Waterloo. Passengers and crew escaped by leaping into the river as flames consumed the lower deck. the Willie, in sight upstream, aided many survivors. Four died and several were injured. US mail and baggage were destroyed. Captain Daniels and others were scorched or rescued by lifeboats.
A jumble of signboard chatter from Clinton to Centre streets, listing misread phrases like Wire Washing and Chimneys Cloned and A Good Dinner Supper and Breakfast for 10 Cents, plus local notices for a barber resuming SpecieShaving and a vacant lot fenced by a Brooks property next to a butcher’s.
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