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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1880
Page
6
A man buys a ring offered by a shabby stranger near City Hall on Broadway. It proves to be a fraud, heavily plated with gold and filled with a cheap core. A druggist confirms it’s one of many similar rings circulating, worth only a few cents.
A reader visits the Podger brothers seeking legal help and asks which of the twins is most sensible. They joke about shared vices and past deeds, and the reader is told the speaker is the one with the most sense. The tale closes with moral quips from Rev. Rowland Hill on religion and behavior.
The piece argues recreation is a duty equal to labor and warns against overexertion. It states athletes should stop at fatigue to avoid harming life resources and emphasizes making the most of the lifespan rather than wasting talent. It frames life as a finite span with a divine purpose to improve.
A Columbus mother left a dish of concentrated lye where her infant drank some. The child survived for several hours in agony as the mother sat with hands over her face, finally rising in hopeless distress after the baby died.
Advert says 25 cent cough syrups are inferior as Dr Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry claims eight times the strength and fewer doses to cure a cold. It touts it as best for deep seated colds and consumption. Also notes new stock of glassware and glassware at Tom Abrams.
A wandering piece blends myth and superstition on the cross material, from mistletoe to ash and palm. It links relics to Helena, Charlemagne, and European sites, then shifts to eerie wrecks rising from sand and a sharp tale of debt and a local quarrel between Jas and Malinda Salmans.
A Singular Drankard recalls Emmet the actor claiming he is an inebriate not a criminal and abstains most of the year while bingeing weekly. Julia Still, famed for tax resistance with a shotgun, is found dead in her Shawan tk Mountains hut. Sir Walter Scott’s temperance is noted as a host, using toast water in place of wine.
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