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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1883
Page
3
An Evening Observer reminiscence recounts how courting in Ohio’s Western Reserve began as a family affair. Young couples sat together by the fireplace after the older generation retired, sharing warmth, whispers, and heart smacks under improvised bed-curtain blankets.
The dialogue recalls Whittier praising cider for illness and quips about prohibitions on cabbage and cucumbers. Huntington mocks boiled dinners with cabbage onion beets and meat, while Whittier notes country air aids strength, citing war-era city strength differences. The scene shifts to Niagara Falls Cataract House, where a rugged stranger enters, surprising genteel guests with dignified presence and a past tied to princes and scholars.
A fragmentary passage extols birds as blossoms of the air and notes John J Audubon as an ornithologist. It references birds singing from hills and groves and mentions the oriole, turtle-dove, mockingbird, imperial eagle, and the blue mountains as they scream at tempests and stars.
The Musical Herald traces the hymn I Love to Steal Awhile Away to Mrs. Phoebe F. Brown born in 1773 in Canaan North Carolina. It notes her early hardship and self education then writing lyrics and essays. The piece discusses the hymn in context, its two tunes by her son the Rev Dr Brown and Wa. B. Bradbury, and its origin from a criticism over twilight rambles prompting its original title An Apology for my Twilight Rambles.
A recalling bachelor tells of being summoned for jury duty in Port Gibson Mississippi. He argues the judge should excuse him as a non freeholder. The judge retorts about bachelor living and dirt in his room, and declines to excuse him.
Robert J. Burdette’s Pittsburg lecture warns that vice taints the “modern” male, noting city boys and country cousins alike fall prey to temptations. He jokes about a bunko sting and drinking, contrasting urban excess with rustic judgment and self deception.
A speaker rails at inequality mocking the idea that honesty pays with a late night cadence. He contrasts a $350,000 hotel guest with a clerk earning 3400 a month and urges men to marry, work, and favor rich over poor while praising past presidents placed in power from unexpected places. Continuous applause follows.
A butter peddler recalls a neighbor’s jealous ride to reclaim his wife Kitty after she fled with a different man. A note, a stolen mare, a crashed demijohn, and a dramatic pursuit unfold as the husband races to stop what unfolds from alleged colic medicine and a broken marriage.
A vivid narrative recounts jealous husbands and a wild chase featuring Nell Ben Kitty and a race for kiss that ended without murder. The tale links a late horse ride and a household scandal to a colic medicine rumor, leaving Ben perplexed about Nell’s fate and a family mystery lingering for years.
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