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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1878
Page
1
A fragmented poetic passage depicts a pilgrim awaiting heaven and a bride seen in evening light. The speaker warns against worldly despair and hints at a transition from glory to gloom as a soul seeks nourishment beyond earthly life.
In a village tale of romance and guilt Ethel Romer grapples with secret valentines from a mysterious writer. She discovers the letters were written by Dr Ralph Romer, and a tragedy leads to confession and renewed love between Ethel and Ralph. The couple's reconciliation unfolds amid duties, remorse, and enduring affection.
The author describes sand flies as tiny venomous midges that swarm the Tron Bark ranges in spring. They cling to horses and riders, causing bloodied, swollen welts on exposed skin and frantic horses, with bites leaving great boils.
A fragment describes a slow healing condition from bites over an extended period. It notes venomous exposure and lasting livid scars on hands, with cure only after cansite treatment. The passage emphasizes persistent injury and lifelong marks.
A correspondent recalls a stormy West autumn duck hunt in Elorado Colorado. Charles, a teen, shoots with a plain muzzle loader and bags twenty four ducks, aided by cousins as ducks circle the flock. The group plans a feast with meat bought in town at high prices.
An account describes hunters using a suspended cannonball to trap a bear at a wild honey hive. The bear endures repeated blows as it twists, harbors rage, and battles the weighted trap, while hunters watch from concealment preparing to intervene if the bear dies or tires.
The text describes how ancient Greeks believed dead persons fall under infernal deities and how hair was used in mourning. Hairs were cut to consecrate and hung on doors, sometimes laid upon the body or placed on the funeral pyre as part of laying out, dressing, and interment rituals.
The piece traces hair customs from ancient funeral rites to royal grooming. It notes Greeks and Romans wore false hair. Gauls valued long hair, which Julius Caesar forced them to cut as submission. It also mentions Osiris and Bacchus linked practices, and French royal trend of long curls for nobles.
A satirical account of imperial ceremony in India notes care in saluting native princes at Queen Victoria’s proclamation as Empress. A British artist’s perspective debate on a 36 foot painting provokes government alarm over uniform sizes among dignitaries.
A Gloucester fishing vessel the Iope of Gloucester faced a fierce squall off Cape Brown's Bank. Capt Anthony T Francis and crew John Conley and Joseph Adams fought freezing seas all night, securing the boat and bringing it to port despite a dragging anchor and lost dory and cargo. Twenty seven states now receive fish eggs from the U S Fish Commission hatcheries.
A survey of curiosities and brief items reports on volcanoes, beekeeping in Michigan, a dog’s long trek from Texas to Missouri, Spurgeon’s illness, fossil fish on Rocky Mountain heights, a French liquor, Turkish power reduced by Muscovy, petrified ants in Colorado, a white-faced Georgia man, ancient weapons in Abaco, Mazarin preserved, Napoleon remains moved in 1540, toy pistols shipped to Germany, Ceylon cinnamon, a Dallas Voodoo doctress, an owl with a steel trap in Burlington, a mistaken Williamsport wedding, Egypt’s royal extravagance, Japan’s Kobutze Kai society, prolific fathers in Cla rion County, rising Game Protective Associations, Belgian gendarmerie feeding neglect, and a jurist’s rebuke.
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