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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1878
Page
3
A fragmentary poetic meditation contrasts a storm into shore with a soul seeking rest in a higher world. The speaker longs for a beloved as a calm haven, imagining melodies beyond words and memories fading in the voyage of life into the sea of heaven.
An editor recalls a pale manuscript from a sixteen year old girl and a chance Christmas Eve dinner that leads to love. He encourages the writer, later marries, and years pass with a growing family. The youthful author reappears via a note revealing her husband, children, and gratitude.
The Ohio State Journal prints Gen. Comly's letter portraying Honolulu as a loafer's paradise. He describes locals as carefree, laughter-loving workers garlanded with flowers and leaves, living without winter or need for a rainy day. The scene emphasizes perpetual summer and festive surface beauty in Hawaiian life.
The New York Evening Post traces the evolution of lighthouse lighting from pre 1789 state funded centers to federal efforts starting in 1791. It notes rapid growth: nine lights on the coast, rising to sixteen by 1800, seventy by 1822, two hundred thirty eight by 1838, and nine hundred twenty five lighthouses with twenty three lightships by 1875, many on the Atlantic coast.
A collection of quirky clippings notes humorous proverbs, political snippets, and social observations from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper. It mentions Sitting Bull, Michigan bureau, ripe potatoes, ready money, and a variety of peculiar quotes about fashion, propriety, and public life. It cites Artemis Bate as the oldest living ex-member of Congress, then 90, and reports Odd Fellows lodge statistics, a Paris clerk’s embezzlement, and Leipsic ladies’ simplicity pact.
Mrs Gracie of 200 East Fortieth Street narrowly escaped serious injury when a lamp in a New York Dental College chair scene sparked flames. Fireman Patrick Healey covered her with his overcoat to smother the blaze, while students dispute wet-handkerchief claims.
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