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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1878
Page
3
A narrative from M. Flendin recounts a Persian cure for a scorpion wound. A dervish used a sharp blade, claimed as the instrument of cure, then the blade attached to a knife revealing a magnet. The patient recovered and the dervish gained renown at Ispehan, prompting reflection on unknown Persian remedies.
An early note lists health decency and beauty as dress aims, stressing temperature control injury protection and liberty of action. It condemns padding false adornment and urges modest, truthful drapery with individuality. A country girl resists a city observer's request for help alighting, defending her right to light without insinuation.
A verse from Mary B. C. Slade in Wide Awake recounts a child’s planting rhyme. It contrasts counting seeds with the guidance of a higher will, noting how two must grow while a foe threatens crops, as an old squire finalizes planting care.
A fragmentary reminiscence pairs a child’s pocket of trinkets with a streetwise look at wharf rats in Gotham. The piece blends a young narrator’s toy trove with a secondary vignette about a self described human “wharf-rat” seen near harbor piles and bales.
A vivid scene follows a boarding house encounter with roving boys near the wharf and a broader tour of Philadelphia’s mint. The narrative contrasts the boys’ rough lives with the mint’s careful, gleaming processes, detailing coinage from weighing to final stamping. The piece blends social observation with a factual tour of the coinage facility and its strict visitor rules.
A Cincinnati style item notes Mayor Rouzer faced a fatal campaign lapse. It accuses him of not wearing a shirt collar during candidature, then adopting a collar as mayor, upsetting voters who preferred Buzz, who wears a shirt collar and a play hat, according to the Ohio Journal.
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