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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1878
Page
3
A quirkily poetic excerpt from Wide Awake links a child’s mood and weather to May, noting shifting feelings, tumbled locks, rapid races, and a mother’s word soothing storms. It frames a tender, sentimental forecast through a child’s eyes.
In Zaandam the Van Schaicks host cousins from New York as Greta Amelia and Amelia awaken to early boats and market buys. The Chester family arrives, including thirteen year old Will and his younger brother Martin, and the siblings compare Dutch and English ways while exploring the canal city with its bridges and two main streets.
Greta and Will discuss boat life and canal scenes while Martin jokes about girls and window reflections. They note flowered gardens, green and yellow houses with red tiled roofs, and wonder about rooftop views as a painterly street scene unfolds in a St. Nicholas memory.
Handsome wool textures rise in fashion with poigee costumes from India and China inspired wraps, nine percent fancy belts, and crownless bonnets for elderly ladies. Beige linen patterns like lace or brocade offer summer novelty, while single breasted cut away coats in English styles serve travel and country wear with horn buttons and masculine back shaping.
A critical portrait condemns men who are courteous in public but coarse at home. The piece mocks pretenders who flatter Miss Arabella Spriggins yet sneer at mothers. True gentility, it argues, appears in home behavior and reliable honesty when money is owed.
Sulphur occurs in combination with iron copper zinc and lead and as sulphates in nature. It appears in vegetables and animals in trace amounts and in hot spring waters. It forms seven oxides with oxygen, notably sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid, and burns with a blue flame forming sulphurous acid.
The Rev. James Jackson, eighty three, of Sandwith in Wordsworth country, attempted Pillar Rock's summit. His body was found two days later at a dangerous descent foot. A bottle with verses was left unread near the summit, and his watch halted at three. A stick and another shout were found along the ascent.
A strange tale describes a man in nightshirt crawling through a skylight and dancing across roofs by moonlight. Neighbors fear a ghost, hunting for a less ghostly residence as the intruder supposedly takes control of property and vanishes.
The passage discusses color perception and language, tracing how color words like blue and green evolved. It notes ancient texts’ varied mentions of colors, the link between language and perception, and how cognition grows with linguistic development across cultures and epochs.
A correspondent reports on Young Jr s strawberry farm between Norfolk and Henry about two miles from Wa The farm spans over 250 acres with 100 acres planted in berries Last season 185 acres yielded more than 375 000 quarts employing 1 700 men The current season is expected to exceed last year s output with around 2 000 quarts per acre and possibly higher according to local observers The plantation is noted for its scale and lush growth amid favorable conditions
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