Greencastle Plans Big Fourth of July Celebration
The Star notes Greencastle will host a Fourth of July celebration with a full day program and appeals to all residents to attend. The piece also mentions Emma Blish and Ida Moody visiting, and critiques a mock Democratic convention at the College Chapel amid university faculty concerns.
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Emma Blish
Seymour
Ida Moody
Greencastle
Board of Health
McLaughlin
Indianapolis
McClelland
Richardson
Razil
Maggie Hawk
Harvest crops and local updates from Tar Star readers
Correspondents report crops growing well with oats and wheat good yields. Lathram and Joseph Anderson purchased a reaper and selling machine, aiding harvest. Weather is fine, health good, farmers busy. Miss Lucy Brown visiting, and attendees at the Republican State Convention.
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Lathram
Joseph Anderson
D. Wood
Baptist Church
Bettie Carico
Bettie Beard
Terre Haute
Ige
Newton Stoner
Lucy Brown
Sas
John Wn
Armers
Deaths in Reed County Drowning of C. J. Smith and Portuguese Man
News from the Pate Stockton New reports C. J. Smith drowned in Deadman's Creek near Plains, while a Portuguese man perished in the same flood. Smith was surveying sheep camp on high ground when a sudden deluge swept the gulch, washing away cabins and leaving bodies found the next day. The flood is blamed on mountain watershed bursts. A product advertisement closes the item.
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Stockton New
C. J. Smith
Reed County
Deadman’s Creek
Plainsy
Smith
How the Cadets Are Put Thro at West Point Riding Drills
The New York Tribune reports visitors watch 31 first class cadets under Capt Godfrey in the West Point riding academy. The display features saber drills, pistol work, and daring bareback mounts with jumps and hurdles, drawing applause and sympathetic gasps from the audience.
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West Point
Riding Academy
Godfrey
What Determination Will Ac complish
Baltimore Sun notes K. P. Williams a nine ward census enumerator in Bucyrus Ohio who, with both arms lost in a train accident, writes legibly by holding a pen between his teeth and averages two hundred names daily. He seats at a table in each house, places the desk on the floor, then uses his teeth to copy names into the census book before moving to the next residence.
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K. P. Williams
Bucyrus
Ohio
Williams
The Law of Pain and Self Preservation
The essay extols pain as a universal warning and moral tutor. It argues nature punishes disobedience, urges mercy to self and others, and cautions against overwork, stimulants, and neglect of health. It ends urging saving health, knowledge, deeds, friends, and love for old age.
Twain Shipboard Shirt Tale Told by New York Paper
A New York Commercial Advertiser story reports Mark Twain aboard the Gallia after seventeen months abroad. He recounts sailing with Bayard Taylor and Murat Halstead, joking about lending Halstead a shirt and Halstead’s red face at voyage’s end.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Mark Twain
Gallia
Bayard Taylor
Murat Halstead
Cincinnati
Mr. Twain
Murat
Clemens
Nor-Nor-West
The Two Wanderers in the Wood Poem Fragment
Fragmentary verse describes two wanderers who hear an axe and imagine building different fates. One longs for distant voyaging and a ship while the other envisions a home crafted with love. They ultimately press on and, in the swamp, make a coffin for the dead.
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H. Phillips
Lorm
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Mark
Parm
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Columbia Streets
Michigan
Mississippi River
W. O. Hughart
Grand Ranids Mich
W. Joinston & CO
Jefferson Ave
Detoit, Mrott
Mefferin
Lane
Draggiata
Hop Bitters Miy, Co
Rochester
N.Y
DR Dara Re
Putnam
Indiana
Washington Street
Ind
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Putnam County
East
Washington St
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von Huy
Battle Creek
Mich
James Y. Davis
Burlington
E. C. Rowland
East Washington Street
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Onrad Cook
Leibig
Germany
France
England
Chicago
Leibig Medicine Co
Dearborn St
Ills
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Carpenter
Dgenta
Ervery County
Broth & Bro
New Ox- Tord
Whittier
St. Charles Street
St. Louis
St Louis
Merria
America
DR. Jacques
Chestnut St. St. Louie
Anne Wan
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