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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1878
Page
3
A teen girl pleads with her mother to approve a marriage to a bachelor with a cabin and modest means He has a cat cow four pigs two hens and a barrel of beans She fears remaining a maid as peers like Katie Susie Sarah Ami Jennie and Dorothy Deans wed others and she longs for a romance despite being in her teens.
A holiday tale centers on Alice Abbot who uses a turkey wishbone to choose between two suitors, Dr Ellis Fane and Frank Merrill, while a mountain knight named Gerome Reid Knight returns. Amid aunt Canfield and a playful family, Alice ultimately marries Knight, after a playful duel over the bone and a nervous confession of love.
A person rises in the night to hunt for a second blanket only to discover none is available. The finding is described as rough, highlighting discomfort and an absence of extra bedding. No other details are provided about location or people involved.
In 1863 a Bannack party crossed the Madison and found Alder Gulch rich from end to end, spurring a wild influx of prospectors. By year’s end some 15,000 people crowded into five settlements along the creek, Virginia becoming the territorial capital. Over six million dollars in dust was mined in one summer, with many claims yielding fortunes. The Fairweather party, founders of Alder Gulch, profited before dissolving in dissipation and poverty. The piece also notes New York naturalizations showing a cosmopolitan citizenry, including Germans Irish French Danes Turks Russians and a China national amid others.
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