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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1878
Page
2
A reflective verse fragment contrasts golden summer with harvest time. The speaker contemplates youth, aspiration, and the duty to gather and present works before the Master, noting trembling hands and a quiet, measured effort. The piece centers on personal devotion and artistic calling.
On the Carolina coast at St John Island stood Peaceful Retreat where the Gibbes family hid as British and Hessian forces overran the area in 1779. Mary Anna Gibbes, thirteen, guided the children through rain, mud, and gunfire as the house was captured and the family fled toward safety amid volleys and splintering trees.
In a night of artillery and fear a young girl Mary Farnham defies danger to retrieve a missing infant. As guns roar and trees crash, she carries the babe through fire and mud back toward safety, clutching him close to her heart.
Fragment mentions a girl saving a little boy whose later life is noted as General Fenwick famed for his role in the 1812 war. Source treats this as a historical vignette highlighting bravery and a notable later honor.
Professor Martin aeronaut and crew lift off at Woodward's Gardens in a perilous ascent delayed by high winds. A rope snag injures eleven year old Alice Curly but she escapes serious harm as the line finally breaks and the balloon descends near Alameda Beach after about one hour and a quarter aloft.
The text surveys the origins of newspapers in Italy with gazette origins, notes Venice as the first monthly paper, and cites the English Mercurie printed in London in 158. It mentions the British Museum’s oldest manuscript in Romai letters and references Cromwell era use to quell dissent and Queen Anne era figures, with Addison shaping period literature.
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