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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1881
Page
7
A poetical reflection on hidden pain behind smiles and outward cheer. It contrasts laughter with sorrow, noting fear and grief often go unseen. The verse cites a religious conscience and moral judgment about inner pain. Attributed to J. W. Riley with a concluding line about perpetual gladness in smiles.
A dark March night brings an unexpected wedding as a cart arrives with Sara Ann and her partner asking the minister to splice them. The ceremony yields a one dollar fee, prompting Mrs. Watson's amused disbelief. The couple departs, and the tale follows the growing family through spring.
In a stormy scene Mrs. Watson meets the wedding party’s hero who delivers a grand supply of fruit and vegetables to the minister. A grateful Sara Ann is praised as the generous donor while the minister finds a twenty dollar bill tucked in the parcel marking the wedding fee.
A humorous reminiscence from the New Orleans Picayune about puns and wordplay. The piece recounts Swift inspired quips, a joke about artists and pockets, and a clover riddle showing linguistic turns.
A humorous tale of a capitalistic pair who built a vast business and bought a fireproof safe. A spelling mishap leads to the motto boot causing a lockout as one partner asserts he set it by the right word but misreads the letters, revealing a comic miscue.
The United States now ranks first among countries from which the French buy. Five years ago it was sixth. Purchases totaled 87 million dollars in 1875 and 143 million last year. U S exports to France rise while grain and petroleum taxes loom as the French government debates tariffs.
A biting critique of quack medicine and gullible buyers. It mocks readers who chase sensational cures, cites a Vermont man’s hoarded bottles, and warns that posters and certificates mislead the public. It urges consulting a real physician before using nostrums.
A Detroit Free Press item notes strong demand for Boston girls in Maine. A farmer’s wife, newly married, spent her honeymoon on the farm’s botany and geology, later presenting her husband with a $40,000 gold mine. The husband nicknames her That Wife of Mine.
The Rochester woman Elizabeth Harris claims a fall broke her leg but prayer healed her by morning with bruises fading after extra prayer. Rev. E. B. Simonds of San Francisco describes a visionary healing where Jesus reveals a heart condition and replaces a stone, restoring health. The piece also notes a Minnesota principal’s defaming romance and a rail reach of seven thousand miles, ending with an advertisement for St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for rheumatism.
A collection of short items: a Cincinnati milliner sues for breach of promise amid parental opposition. Dr Lindsey's Blood Searcher advertised. a Covington man bitten by a coach whip snake. a Napa breach of promise defense based on Sunday contract. Prickly Ash Bitters pitched as liver remedy. a New Albany family poisoned by overnight dough corn cakes.
The Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company in Rochester is hailed as a premier local business. Its Hop Bitters are described as widely sold and valued, reaching almost every household in the land.
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