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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1878
Page
2
A list of charade clues from the New York Graphic invites home readers to solve 32 or more author names. Each couplet hints at parts of a writer’s name and sometimes a title or trait, offering a winter evening pastime for households.
A compiled roster features names such as Hawthorne Hugo Humboldt Marryatt Moore Motley Ruskin Shelley Hogg Waller Socrates Howells Bacon Keats Coleridge Akenside Mark Twain ee Goodrich Muloch Virgil Edge Worth Voltaire Dickens Cervantes De Foe Agassiz Bancroft Dumas Beaumont Lever Poe.
A correspondent sketches Judge Jere Black as large framed and vigorous yet spare, with iron gray wig and a square head. The portrait notes shrewd blue eyes, white brows, a close shave, and a strong combative jaw. It quotes his dislike of complex bills and his habit of asking for meals and addressing “My fellow citizen” when thirsty.
A Cincinnati Commercial analysis of ten states shows urban growth outpacing rural in New York and Massachusetts, with urban increases ranging from 71 to 92 percent. It argues that rising concentration drives wealth, poverty, vice, crime, and threats to free institutions, urging intensified efforts to counteract these trends.
Fragmentary figures show canal earnings and tonnage figures for 1876 and 1877. The data references substantial sums such as 8,777,260 and 6,279, with earlier years listing 35,994,999 and totals around 1,663 and 1,457. Interpretive details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
A testimonial from IslEBORO Maine dated December 28, 1877, by Mrs. A. J. Pendleton praising Vegetine for chronic cough lung soreness and kidney complaint. She claims one bottle improved strength and work ability and touts Vegetine as nourishing purifying and system arousing.
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