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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1873
Page
4
Myra's Dream and the Poison Ice Mirror of Marksville
Aunt Clemantine recalls Myra Denslow and Freeman Thayer, lovers parted by a fatal dream. On a moonlit river, Myra sees a frame free mirror in ice and a drowned Freeman glides beneath, foreshadowing their deaths. The witness later marries Freeman's skater friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saiinness
Stagesleigh
Marksville
Myra
Myra Denslow
Kinsley
Epona
Freeman
Clemmy
Freeman Thayer
Thayer
Failures in Society and the Call for Better Humans
The speaker laments widespread failures among men and women and urges improvement in character and conduct. He argues no generation has yet produced the ideal people who will build a peaceful age, insisting boys should emulate worthy fathers and girls aspire to nobler womanhood, as Rev. Wohl. Mowrax voices a hopeful yet distant millennium.
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Mowrax
Eternity and Time's Decay Amid Cosmic Thoughts
Fragmentary antiquated prose ponders eternity beyond aging and decay. It contrasts mortal frailty with the unending divine life, claiming time cannot touch the divine and earthly splendor fades into graves and bubbles.
Happiness Is Found In Small Drops Of Daily Joy
The passage argues true happiness comes from daily gifts from God and quiet effort. It warns against chasing constant success and excess, noting earnest people are rare and society overpraises constant shine. Minds need rest like fallow soil to avoid burnout.
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Collyer
Bright Side Vision Guides Resilient Living
An essay extols keeping a positive outlook amid losses and setbacks. It argues that focusing on what remains and forming new plans sustains success, while maintaining integrity and charity. The piece notes frosts, bank failures, and other misfortunes as inevitable but not ruinous if one stays virtuous.
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Myra
Children of the Abbey
Cabie
Clemmy
Usyshe
Reading for citizens urged by Prof Bell at Press Association
In a talk before the Press Association at Indianapolis the other day Professor Bell warned that a man who neglects reading his own school paper and county paper should be buried without the benefit of clergy.
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Press Association
Indianapolis
We. A. Bell
Birth of Hyacinthe Pere's Son
The wife of Pere Hyacinthe has given birth to a boy, marking a new arrival in the Pere household.
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