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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
3
A reflective verse on striving, thriving, and the cycles of love, marriage, alimony, fame, and time. It suggests not fretting over troubles, but to keep moving as the world continues. The piece closes with the note Chicago Chronicle.
The narrator recounts a tense naval action near Put-in-Bay aboard the Niagara. Perry commands with calm grit as cannons roar, gunners fall, and the bow gun roles test endurance. Dri and the narrator tend the wounded, capture courage, and celebrate Perry pulling a rescue mission before leaving to command the Niagara.
A doctor sends his aging horse to a farm across the river to rest. The horse swims the Penobscot 7 feet deep with strong current to reach the doctor’s town and home. The tale notes a band of circus elephants crossed the river long ago. A separate anecdote has a cabman quipping that a woman is not a lady after a disputed fare.
A Detroit Free Press quip suggests a light hearted tip for brides to be. The advice urges learning solitaire to ease married life with humor and practicality.
A witty line from the Detroit Free Press jokes that marriage cured a man of a disease described as the worst in the world, noting Downs and Fickleson nearly died with it and asking what cured him.
Washington gossip notes persistent rumors about Justice John M. Harlan considering retirement to lead a Presbyterian cathedral drive in Washington. It also highlights Secretary Wilson and Attorney General Moody as frequent targets of marriage gossip while detailing shad fishing prospects and the cost of government reports.
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