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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1883
Page
8
Fragmentary lines describe a personage with a soulful gaze and a desire to gain entry to an upper gallery. The garbled text suggests a scene of anticipation and reflection during a performance or show. No clear dates, names, or places are identifiable.
In Tompkins County New York a farmer named Pitkins adopts an orphan, Sut, to help with farm chores. Growing tensions over his small size and harsh treatment lead to a violent home incident where Sut defends his family from two tramps, is severely wounded, and later dies at home as the farmer returns with another worker.
A Detroit Free Press account recalls a boy named Sut who dies after a lethal injury. Sut’s final moments are described in stark detail, with a grave in the village churchyard kept by three women. The piece emphasizes his youth and the somber aftermath.
The Boston Post notes Hannibal Hamlin advises Colby University students to practice extempore speaking. It praises his early debating roots and argues New England lacks public speakers, urging schoolboys to develop oratorical ability for future careers in law politics or statesmanship.
Ninety years the first English missionary offered himself and now evangelical fores missionaries total 5,000 leading a native host of 30,000 helpers. A New Jersey man patents a stove that explodes at ten o clock at night.
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