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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1878
Page
3
From the New York Times the piece reflects on marriage decline, detailing a cynic’s view of ill fated unions. It traces how joyful weddings turn to misery through temper, neglect, and hidden faults, warning that many marriages lack love and respect.
In a San Francisco Bulletin recount, John Morrissey sought a favor from Speaker Colfax during Morrisey’s congressional rise. He first offered cigars and then asked to join a committee with little work, and Colfax made him chairman of the committee on revolutionary pensions.
A Winnipeg correspondent describes a Sircees tribe initiation in which a neophyte fasts for days, then enters a dog feast within a circle of conjurors. A live white dog is killed and eaten by the novice, who ends bloodied and exhausted as the tribe dances around.
A Bohemian tenant in Cleveland, Ohio moved a rented house on wheels to the west. The landlord, owed rent, found nothing in the cellar but ashes and a burning concern as an officer pursued the house thief.
A young man courting a lady-love stayed out so late on several evenings that the family whitewashed the wall beside the room to erase his shadow.
A roughearing tale recalls Griswold Burr nicknamed Grizzly Bear who survives a stormy Christmas Eve. His house, carried by wind onto the bay, drifts ashore as dawn breaks. Inside, Grizzly sits amid improvised coffee, pie, and pumpkin, while his mother and siblings, warned by frantic neighbors, race to find him.
The Cardiff pedestrian Gale completed 4,000 quarter miles in 4,000 ten minute periods, surpassing historic shows like Capt. Barclay’s 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours and Robert Skipper’s 1,000 half miles. Gale’s record eclipses previous marks and sets a new standard in athletic endurance.
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