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Newspaper
Lexington Clipper
Location
Lexington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1858
Page
3
A poem urges charity during winter hardship. It envisions cold days, snow, and freezing conditions that threaten the widow and orphan. It calls on the rich to remember the poor and to aid in the season of Savior’s birth.
A flamboyant defense argues against capital punishment, invoking scripture and morality while mockingly challenging jurors to avoid murder. The speaker derides violence, mocks the jury, and taunts the notion of guilt, weaving surreal images into a desperate push for clemency.
In a dramatic courtroom moment the prisoner was acquitted after a tirade full of grandiose phrases about time, creation, and betrayal. The judge’s verdict clears the defendant, ending the controversial outburst without further charges.
A Parisia physician visiting with a hired fly received Jamaica rum as a sample but left it in a carriage. He warned the manager to prevent coachmen from drinking it. Shortly after, three coachmen suffered severe colic, initially suspected poison while the rum was later found to be stolen liquor.
A revival-era preacher recounts the David and Goliah episode with a racy twist claiming David fought for a king’s daughter, provoking laughter and sensational reaction from listeners. He denies motives of religion or virtue, suggesting a scandalous incentive.
A late revival tale recounts a venerable clergyman urging a live ly customer to repentance. After sermonizing on mankind, death, and the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, he chides vestals without oil while a witty youth quips about gas in those days, provoking the minister into fury.
Ilaas Von Stemagle and his son Yohn travel through a region famed for Hot Springs near Hana then ask for schnapps. Yohn stops to fetch water from a nearby spring and tastes it before shouting to his son to keep driving, claiming they are far from home.
A man in Yankee life marries a wife and attends church in a single day. He eats five pumpkin pies, picks a Black person, tells a lie, and tears his trousers, all recorded as a chaotic sequence of ordinary deeds.
A young man in Richmond Va was pushed by a stranger and struck. The assailant fled as the victim stood, rubbing his eyes and muttering in astonishment about his injury and the blow.
A fragmented notice describes a peculiar scene where Master Brown interacts with Anthony Clair and a group of girls. The passage hints at a tense moment, a damaged sale context, and a dramatic dismissed farewell.
A reflective line compares nature’s cyclic decline to human fate as flowers, fruits, leaves, stars, rain, and even the mercury in a tube descend into decay and mortality, echoing eternity’s reach.
Two children describe a mock scene where Jane warns Jane she will sit on fins and fall off, prompting a playful exchange about consequences and reconciliation.
A note argues that Lower Illinois is mainly occupied by a single family as most residents share the same surname spelling His 4 mark, implying a lone family dominance rather than diverse settlement.
A brother recalls that during his imprisonment for libel he was asked by the jailer to provide the prison with a puff alleging a justice of the peace involvement. The remark appears as a contemporaneous note in the prison stalls.
The Salem Gazette recalls Boston in its palmiest days before houses yielded to stores and gardens gave way to development, inviting readers to revisit the city’s bygone era.
A witty exchange between a pretty lass and a bachelor friend centers on marriage. She teases him for not marrying and he quips that he is ashamed to ask a woman to become Sommersett, a playful remark in light social banter.
A moonlit night scene shows a man seated on a corner arguing with his own shadow about propriety, a quirky image reflecting local atmosphere and humor from the era.
A Minnesota editor recalls never feeling true happiness until one warm summer day in youth when three maidens fanned and kissed him, then exclaims Gosh.
A fine young farmer claims honesty and manners while his sweetheart rebukes him saying he is more sheep than bear and has never hugged her. The exchange highlights playful rural banter and affection in a domestic moment.
A physician tells a female patient to stick out her tongue further provoking the patient’s quip about the length of a woman’s tongue. The exchange highlights social wit in a medical setting.
A conductor stops a boy at half fare claiming he is too large to pass He is told he may be too late now by the woman who had paid for the reduced ticket The exchange centers on the boy’s size versus the half fare rule and timing.
A Lexington Indiana advertisement proclaims a large stock of goods across departments for men and women. It highlights ladies wear including shawls, velvets, and cloaks, plus broad clothing ranges for men and boys such as overcoats suits shirts and linseys.
A department offers Saf wool and SHK Han Cloth plush items with trimmed and French finishes. Traveling display features old Bengal caps described as beautiful and attractive.
A garbled 19th century shop notice lists groceries and household goods such as sugar spices tea molasses tallow candles rice and glassware. It promises inducements for prompt payment and mentions Irene Aarrison's perfumery in a nearby area. The misspelled text hints at a long retail row of common items and household staples.
J. W. Hollenbeck announces a wide assortment of dry goods groceries and notions offered at low prices. The stock includes coats shawls lace gloves jewelry and glassware plus candles tea sugar and household items. He invites long standing accounts and requests payment by January next.
Empire Mills A T Lexington Indiana reports full operation grinding wheat corn and rye. They offer four for wheat yielding thirty three pounds of flour and a half bushel of iron form per bushel of wheat weighing sixty. For order wheat a refined flour returns less than fifty by weight. Corn ground for one seventh of meal, bran and shorts for sale at all times. They pay the highest market price for wheat in been and wat ever bunivel tm Casi: paid tos Sarva ae , seprd sf. FARS, & ROSS.
A promotional biography of Ty Morse, inventor of Morse’s Indian Root Pills, highlights travels through Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It claims the pills cleanse the blood, remove humors, aid kidneys, and restore youth and vigor, with testimonials of renewed strength and health.
The item warns of influenza and cold dangers from night thefts and corrupted water. It promotes a mysterious remedy, claiming to purge the bowels and purify the body, with assertions about moving disease from the stomach and blood and promising cure through a pill.
A dated notice states the partnership between Maris, Rowson Jewett is dissolved. Patrick Fl Jewett conveyed his share to Porter Bie on December 2 in a process described within the document.
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