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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1881
Page
7
The article discusses the body being largely double with paired organs and cross nerves, noting how the brain splits duties. It recounts a San Francisco school punishment with a pupil hidden moth er’s dress, then shifts to meditations on three kinds of marriage dinning on wealth and virtue. It ends with a Michigan widow who defended against a tramp and faced marriage offers.
A meditation on weariness and the prayer for rest as life’s labor yields little harvest. The speaker recalls childhood longing for rest and envisions a final rest beyond the western shore, guided by faith and a poetically somber tone. Father Ryan appears as the hopeful figure in the closing lines.
A historical ad touts the Burlington Route with direct three through passenger trains daily linking major midwestern and western cities. It highlights Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, Palace Drawing-Room Cars, reclining chairs, dining cars, smoking cars, steel track, through car service, and luxury travel to the South West and Far West. Through tickets available nationwide. inquiries directed to James R. Wood and T. J. Potter in Chicago.
In a Philadelphia Post excerpt, Kathie debates wedding dowry woes with her Aunt Grayson. Kathie defends choosing love and debt relief over shabby clothes while improvising a jacket from a grandfather’s overcoat, amid family tensions and questions of money and propriety.
Kathie, neglected by a wealthy grandfather, discovers a hidden dowry of coupon bonds and bank notes while repairing her late relative’s coat. Her fiancé Charlie professes love beyond money, and Kathie realizes his affection for her alone, disregarding the windfall. The scene ends with the dowry forgotten as they embrace.
The piece condemns tobacco odor as offensive and poisonous to some people. It argues smokers invade others comfort in close spaces and urges readers to stop dirty habits that taint coats, cars, and stages.
A reader compares a locomotive to a living being, praising its heart and power. The speaker admires the engine as a radiant, majestic creature and feels kinship with its fiery energy, imagining if inert to become a beautiful, mighty thing like it.
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