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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1880
Page
6
A meditation on resisting slights and pride. True nobility forgives, forgets as much as possible, and remains unshaken by petty injuries. Small minds suffer from small events while great minds see through them and respect others.
Correspondent recalls Amherst College memories of Daniel Webster Ru fus Choate and Charles Sumner in the famous Oliver Smith will case. Webster's restrained dignity won over Choate's fiery rhetoric and Sumner's climactic gesture inspired many observers. The piece also offers a moral on blunt truth with friends.
A Knoxville paper recounts a man's descent into alcoholism and ruin. Once hopeful of reform and a better life, he yields to a dangerous spell in a woman's smile, becoming a cautionary case of drink’s wreckage on family and self.
A San Francisco woman recounts how she expels imps from possessed individuals, claiming hundreds of successes. She describes cases including a cultured man driven near lunacy and a wealthy young woman under dangerous control, aided by lenient incantations. She markets this with cautionary notes and testimonials.
A faded notice extols Dr Crumptons Strawberry Dal Sam as soothing for stomach irritation and diarrhea. A Baltimore widower John P Erpenbeck visits his wife's grave daily. after missing flowers, a pistol is heard and his body is found with a note begging forgiveness and expressing love toward Katie.
Advertises Dr Wistar Balsam of Wild Cherry and Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic as cures for consumption cough fever malaria and dyspepsia. Mentions George Wysong druggists Bucklen's Arnica Salve hack fare and Hall's Balsam with price notes and local shop references.
An advertisement extols Dr. Kixo s New Discovery for consumption and throat and lung ailments claiming cures for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and breathing difficulties. It invites readers to Allen s Drug Store for proof and samples.
The Virginia City Enterprise reports Nevada finds of round rolling stones similar to Australia. Stones, from pea to six inches, lie in basins on bare rock and move toward a common center when released. Likely lodestone or magnetic iron ore causes the mysterious migration.
The excerpt recalls a Manchester prank where a group frightens Tom by tightening his hat until his head swells. a Philadelphia divine vignette about a clergyman’s hymn prompt and Grace’s name. and a long Farmers Weekly note urging farm journaling to track income and expenses for households, with advice for children and personal finance discipline.
At a Salem Massachusetts funeral a stranger asked to see the corpse. The family refused to open the coffin until the man, revealed as a long‑lost brother, was recognized by a surviving sister. The reunion at the open grave moved all. A separate anecdote tells of a wife who never attends auctions until a friend’s nod triggers a purchase.
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