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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1892
Page
2
A playful verse from Martha Gion Sperbeck in Good Housekeeping describes a flirtatious exchange about Valentines Day. The speaker asks Jennie to choose a valentine to send and keep, promising a personal keepsake and praising beauty and affection in a lighthearted tone.
In winter gloom seven year old Laddie searches for a Valentine to cheer his ailing mother. With three pennies and help from a compassionate stranger, he sells labor and buys time, leading to a heartwarming reunion as his recovered papa returns with a grand Valentine for his mother.
An exposé in the Chicago Tribune argues horse racing as run by bookmakers harms society. It cites urban racecourses corrupting youth and women, wrecking homes, draining finances through betting, and lowering real estate values near tracks. It describes moral decline, violence, and crime tied to racing crowds, with examples of ruined workers, divorces, and foreclosures, urging closure of tracks.
A collage of humorous, scathing snippets from newspapers and jokes. Characters debate folly, love, hunger, and misfortune as reporters, cabbies, and jesters riff on social foibles with punchy, era-tinged banter and caricatured dialogue.
A poem excerpt questions whether a beloved must be warned of rivals by wealth and beauty. It suggests conspiratorial comparison to a rose and sunrise, then asserts that true love is proven best by hearts joining in sincerity, not rivals’ lure.
A collage of humorous lines includes a Mud puddle gag about skirts and trousers, two other witty exchanges, and a Plano scene where Mia Yerger’s daughter acts all day. Mrs Metorty chides Abe’s absence from play.
A tale warns against quack veterinary methods. A so called expert prescribed blowing powder up a mule's nostrils. The owner, about to perform the fix, found the mule unexpectedly inhaled and blew the powder back, illustrating folly in dubious cures.
A narrator recalls meeting a real lord who bought old master paintings at auctions for two dollars and eighty cents and a French nobleman who later killed himself after a misinterpreted French exchange. The piece reflects on memory, perception, and reconciliation with aging.
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