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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1881
Page
7
A verse celebrates simple happiness found in family love and faith. The speaker praises a firm home, devoted husband, four children, and the joy of daily tasks. Heaven would not be sweeter without the lively, noisy children and steady domestic duties.
A mother with dwindling means loses her home in a fire and faces harsh ingratitude from her daughters. She seeks work, endures cold detachment, and finally finds solace in a distant kin’s help, while reflecting on motherly sacrifice and filial duty in a critique of neglect.
In a camp meeting Dr. Lovick Pierce enjoined Christians to progress in faith saying you must grow or die. He staged a dramatic climax with escalating imperatives crawl if not walk or run and ended with a thunderous worm it along. The scene shows his forceful preaching and the crowd’s response.
Fragmentary timetable notes show BLE and railroad westbound trains with arrival and departure times around 4 Malle A P Harrison agent. References to Terre Haute and Indianapolis Vandal line sections include multiple daily trips and connections. Details are incomplete but indicate daily service with morning and evening departures and specific stations.
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