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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1878
Page
4
A flowing poem praising beauty found in daily labor and quiet virtue. It extols beautiful eyes lips hands shoulders and lives as reflections of earnest work patience prayer and kindness. The verse ends with contemplations of rest and graves beneath the fading light and fallen leaves.
Fred Putnam recalls a near fatal December night when a forged debt and a stolen coat nearly drove him to suicide. A stunned misadventure ends with his realization that a stranger, mistaken for carrying a sack of money, wore his coat and left the fortune in his pocket. The tale ends with plans to marry Carrie after a sobering scare.
The Sacramento Bee jokes that two natural barometers in the city reliably predict storms. A catfish kept by Henry Leinberger signals rain by head-down swimming before barometers change. Two unseen floor frogs in the polio office croak discordantly to warn of approaching storms, prompting officers to prepare on their boats.
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