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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1880
Page
5
A collage of anecdotes and ads from 19th century life. Clergy figures like Rev. Washington Gladden discuss church attendance since the Revolutionary era. Advertisements promote tonics, syrups, and patent medicines for children, wives, and health, including Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup and Dr. Lindsey's Blood Searcher. Reports include a Baltimore disappearance and marital scandal in Peoria.
A dissolute husband is ousted by a church ally and descends into despair. He schemes to profit from grief by involving an uncle in cemetery stone sales, pretending two cousins are dead to gain two headstones, until a shocked Mrs M realizes the ruse. The farmer-like con artist Grynd is left stunned.
John demands dinner and curses at Mary who calmly serves a tough beef. She blasts his swagger, explains the wood is wet and the beef is old stag, and vows to mirror his swearing. The exchange ends with Mary asserting authority and independence.
A collage of aphorisms and trivia notes spans ideas from marriage mirages to silk labor, with references to George Eliot and Schuyler Colfax. It includes canal history, coal field estimates, a St Louis legacy bequest, and varied quotes from Detroit Free Press and Boston Transcript.
A hundred sheep trample through Mineral Springs avenue ending with the herd dispersing over a school yard. An umbrella wielding man attempts to steer them, gets overwhelmed, and is thrashed by the flock before hobbling away. A quip in a religious paper about bicycle craze contrasts with a Yale and Hayes jab.
A Mobile woman redefines Heaven as a place of endless work rather than idle bliss. She rejects eternal rest, recalling childhood images of singing and golden streams but concludes human intellects are meant to labor forever in the afterlife. The New York Post quotes her reflections.
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