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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1874
Page
1
A fragmentary poetic reminiscence recounts an envisioning of the printer as a liberating force. The speaker invokes historical shapes and figures, praising the power of print to conquer crime, awaken science, and light the poor’s path, while proclaiming a vision of universal human emancipation.
An account from a Newburyport lading bound for Liverpool recalls a cotton fire aboard a vessel named Job days in 1853. After locking ventilators and drilling holes, the crew scuttled to abandon, then pumped and patched to reach a safe port with help from the Margaret of Bath Maine.
Three local newspapers are edited by ladies in town as part of a temperance and lemonade crusade. A playful line notes a boy’s definition of snoring calling it letting off sleep.
A Chicago lecture by Father Terry before the Catholic Library Association sparks controversy with bold claims about Genesis age of Adam the Ark and animal transport. Critics say his views eclipse Professor Swing and provoke theological debate in the city.
Instructions for making a plum pudding and a fruit bread dough. Describe harvesting apples peas and core, crushing, mixing with flour, yeast, and water to form dough, rising twelve hours, shaping loaves, and baking quickly. Then detail a rich unriuvaled plum pudding with raisins currants candied peel nuts spices suet bread crumbs eggs sugar brandy and long boiling time for 14 portions.
A Scandinavian legend explains that in the moon the children Hinki and Bil carry a pail of water between them. Mani the moon is said to have stolen them while drawing water, placing them with a bucket and well-pole so observers on Earth may glimpse them in the full moon.
The Buchanan Record notes that sixteen or seventeen thousand Michigan women over twenty one own property and pay annual taxes to support a government that denies them representation. It argues taxation without representation sparked the Revolutionary War and may now trigger a public shift toward woman suffrage.
A writer warns that a German chemist making high quality brandy from sawdust undermines temperance laws. The piece mocks prohibition by imagining drinking from unconventional household items and urges drastic action against the chemist.
The article recounts a lighter exchange with President Grant recalling Miss Nellie’s promised visits. When asked what he meant by often he quips twice a year and six months at a time, followed by a playful line about a boot.
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