18 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1879
Page
1
A reflective verse scene describes a sunset ride across prairie meadows. The riders glide through glowing hues of purple and gold, noting distant birds, blooming plants, and the quiet companionship as dusk settles. Nature’s beauty and a lingering question of lasting joy punctuate the journey.
Edith loses a hundred dollar diamond ring worn to a concert after borrowing it to outshine Mollie Bond. Her brother David uncovers the truth and gentle discipline follows as she confides and learns a hard lesson about honesty and promises. A local newspaper note closes with a curious misdirection about a sewer siege in Oran.
In the Revolutionary era tale a Tory colonel Ferguson wears a new uniform from Cornwallis and tries to win his brother to the royal cause. A bold wife declares rebelship and rejects royal dress as she confronts him, telling him she is no longer his wife if he joins the British cause while Lyonel becomes a steadfast patriot.
A late legislative act bans disinterment of bodies without county approval and targets the Chinese practice of removing bones for shipment home. The article details ritual, procedures, penalties, and post mortem handling, noting no Chinese corpses now burying with bones and describing surgical removal, drying, and packaging for dispatch.
A reflective, aphoristic passage contrasts medical pills failing on the liver with the certainty of becoming necessary for success. It admonishes a young man to prove his value, and warns against bets on precocious children, using a rural metaphor about ripening hackleberries and the quick decay they portend. The tone is didactic and wry, exploring moral frailty and personal usefulness.
A seven man group of Norway Foresters led by Charles Hail, M. D., journeyed from Wilmart to Indian river via West Canada Creek. While scouting for Four Mile Stillwater they encountered a moose and a panther. Smith kept watch with a fire as the party split, and the storyteller got lost, surviving the night with aid from Smith, who held the line between danger and the animal. The moose later vanished and the panther retreated at dawn.
A three year old filly bred near Cyn thiana Kentucky gained fame after a dramatic sale saga. Owner Wilson paid 1200 dollars after a boy hid the horse and balked at delivery. The colt rode four days in cars and then trotted a quarter mile in remarkable time at Milwaukee Driving Park, without a miss.
A jumble of brief items reports on a range of topics including dental injury deaths in Altoona, census-like paternity cases in Salisbury, a nearly finished granite cross at Balmoral, Hartford taxes led by Timothy M. Alyn, and various grain, fish, and emigration statistics. Also noted are a Georgia fish die-off, Butter and cheese exports from 1878, a German emigration surge, and cultural notes on the Smithsonian and London Elm tree finds.
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