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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1881
Page
2
An essay argues readers travel to places in literature as eagerly as to historic sites. It cites Scott, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hawthorne, Homer, and others, noting how fiction vivifies people, places, and eras, shaping modern perception and even guiding where readers roam.
Washington Gladden notes a survey of one hundred prominent rural roots showing seventy four of eighty eight men trained on farms. The piece argues farming offers independence, religious growth, and a path to national prosperity, contrasting it with urban clerical life and urging farm-based upbringing for the next generation.
Health is good in this vicinity. Mr Wm Fowler moves his blacksmith shop to Roachdale from Ashbys Mills. Mr Wm Allen sold his saddle horse to Sam Aymer. Leonard and Allen run a meat wagon to Carpentersville weekly. A new grist mill is talked of as needed. Robert Cline held a meeting at his sugar camp last Monday night. Louis Boyd plans to leave. he will be missed. A note praises TukSran it as the county’s best newspaper. Converts were to be baptized in Pekin but chose a nearby mineral spring pool for a sulphur bath. A funeral in Philadelphia featured an infant’s basket offering mislaid to the bereaved parents. An Oregon writer endorses St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism and cites cures from the Cutiura Remedies. Catarrh cures offered by Sanford’s Radical Cure bundle for $1.
A testimonial letter claims Coes Dough Balsam cured typhoid fever complications in a ten year old and whooping cough in children. The writer cites Dr Dyer and Mr Patterson endorsing the remedy and notes family approval from Lyman Dorman and H J Post with dates 1876 and 1809.
A grieving couple recalls their deceased son Jack and preserves mementos in a family bureau bottom drawer. The narrator recalls how the child’s absence shadows daily life while the wife prays over the relics and both long for the boy’s return.
A New York photographer reports success using electric light for portraits. The light hung five to six feet from the floor and a ground glass screen aided negative exposure in about a minute. Early trials yielded brilliant color and clear mapping of facial features with pronounced life spots.
An Ecclesiastes reflection notes Solomon's experiments in wealth wisdom and pleasure and their moral purpose. A Paris scene adds a wry anecdote of a girl’s utterance and a young man who wins two pianos then loses fortune and life, illustrating fleeting fortune and tragedy.
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