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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1880
Page
7
A humorous fragment discusses how a telegram frightens a wife in a vignette from Puck and then shifts to Tobacco Slaves, a Gentleman's Magazine piece defending moderate tobacco use. It portrays a city man who smokes continually from morning to night, neglects worship, avoids social contact, and prioritizes his pipe over meals or desserts.
President Porter of Yale urged practical teaching improvements applicable to primary and higher education. He argued effective instruction requires teachers to know more than students but adapt to individual capacities, avoiding overreliance on general method and neglect of pupil attention and memory.
Two Meriden men pursue a lawsuit over who owns a ladder. The case could allocate the sides to one attorney and the rounds to another, while the litigants retain the holes of the dispute.
A lone tramp earning passage to Louisville, Kentucky, signals an eastbound express by lighting a newspaper with a match. The driver halts in time, and the grateful rider boards the train at Claremont, while the rest of the tale follows a separate anecdote about Grant era officials and a curious courtship of wit.
Silver jewelry rises in fashion as new tall hat shaped waste-basket entries appear. A wedding featured two peace pipes tied with a blue ribbon and elegant attire like soft crown turbans with feather or fur bands. Boots display outer side buttons and bread soles. Bonnet trims burst with variegated colors for bonnets and corsages. Home crafts include crimson olive and deep blue felt table covers with gold embroidery and contrasting borders. Colored cotton flannel brightens tidies and sofa pillows. Powder use grows plain and bold, while scent bottle sets hide a powder box.
On the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad near Messer's Crossing the Peter B. Brigham paycar locomotive fractured a rod and steam cock, flooding the cab and scalding engineer CLE Jones and fireman C P Webster. Jones saved the engine by reversing, stopping it, and crawling back to the pay car, delaying the up train two and a half hours. both men faced injuries, with Jones severely burned but surviving at home.
John Harris survived a 160 foot ax fall at the Yellow Jacket shaft with a four inch by two and a half inch skull bone loss. He later took his head to England and back and reports no head trouble aside from a strange jerk in his walk. Harris is described as a remarkable case in surgery, with a long recovery and minimal long term debilitation.
A household need note offers a free book on the liver including liver complaints, torpid liver, jaundice, biliousness, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, malaria and more. Send request to Dr. Sanford at 162 Broadway New York City New York.
The undersigned offers all sizes of drain tiling at his kiln in Coatesville Indiana or will fill orders left with J W Buffington hardware dealer Greencastle Indiana Good tile and inside prices guaranteed Coatesville Ind
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