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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1879
Page
14
Poetic lines describe a moonlit garden with musk, apples, pomegranate shadows, primrose plumes, cereas and snow bloom. The speaker awaits his lady amid flowering passion-flowers and jasmine, syringa, and laurels in a dreamlike setting.
A 14 year old Simon Slope launches the Snaptown Tommyhawk as a bold town paper born from youth anger at the Snaptown Courant. He forms a company, raises five dollars for a press, and recruits friends to publish fresh fearless local satire and reports.
Editorial outlines a new weekly paper by Simon Slape and collaborators aimed to rival the Courant. It proclaims original news, a hired poet, Republican bias, and a goal to surpass competitors within a year despite a cheeky challenge to existing local press.
A short verse describes the transition from winter to spring with planting, riding, and skating joys. The speaker prefers winter play and laments changing boots and activities as May days arrive, noting how ink and writing hinder outdoor enjoyment.
Poetic critique targets The meanest paper under the sun written by Simon. The piece mocks low readership and the editor as incapable of straight shooting, describing the paper as an old rusty Continental gun that misfires and causes the editor fits.
A breezy verse asks love and sails a boat to the Caribbean. The note also records local anecdotes about a lodge, a wife scolding her husband, a singing teacher, and a gossip about Percivals arguing over pocket money.
Miss Stope plans a tea with the minister and family next Wednesday. She borrows Mrs Pepper's china tea set and decorates with Mrs Stoke's long mask table cloth. Spoons are being replated in Boston and marked to resemble real silver for a good supper.
A satirical piece on cats describes antics with firecrackers and tying tails, noting cruelty, with jabs at beliefs and a closing miscue by Smron Slopt. It inflates humor and moral judgment, mentioning kittens under a bridge and dead cats used as May baskets.
The Tommyhawk edition sparks a brawl as readers and tradesmen clash. A temperance officer seizes adulterated goods, a minister scorns tea, and editor Si Slope dodges mob violence. In a dawn-to-dusk spree, youths tear down the office, while Captain Fungus assists the boy.
A boy named Simon endures a week of meals as punishment after a first issue. He limps from the ruins with a cane and mutters that things aren’t as they were, saying even George Washington could not edit a paper without lying and he would rather study.
A vivid description of the Lords chamber with mural carvings, colored glass, statues of knights, frescoes, gas lighting, crimson benches for 500 peers, the throne, woolsack, ministerial tables, clerks, and galleries. It notes the arrangement of peers, companions, reporters, and Commons members in debates as observed from the throne area.
A local tale from Oakland Radiator recounts two Black Hills prospectors in Milpitas discovering a cavern filled with supposed gold. As they prepare to leave a sudden upheaval shoots them into the air, landing uninjured five miles away, then a peal reveals the prank involving a sleeping Milpitas girl sneezing out plugs in her teeth.
Philadelphia hosts at least 2000 male collectors of coins and autographs. Randall owns a complete gold coin series, Gratz reportedly the nation’s largest autograph collection, Vaux stores rare paper money including an 1804 cent, and a leading Tenth Ward druggist is said to hold Americas largest collection.
A historic trove valued at 75 000 dollars includes over thirty five year holdings with a complete U S coin collection in copper silver and gold and a nearly complete set of colonial coins.
The Newmarket Handicap in Cambridge shire saw the American horse Parole win amid 38 subscribers with 14 defections. Parole, a brown gelding foaled in 1873, defied betting odds of 100 to 15 as the favorite Isonomy failed to prevail, marking a notable cross Atlantic achievement for American breeders after initial misfortune to Lorillard’s stable.
Poem by James T Fields celebrating spring. The speaker thanks God for life and welcomes April and renewal. He recalls sturdy limbs and breathing the vernal air as nature sings and flowers bloom, while death no longer stalks the world. The poem urges joy and shared celebration.
The Sacramento Record-Union notes the death of Charles Bennett once head of the San Francisco Olympic Club. It recounts his rise from weak health to a famed muscular athlete who could lift 250 pounds single handedly and saved a gymnast from a fall. It questions whether overexertion contributed to his end and calls for careful study.
J BR Coe of Sloan Iowa claims a world record calf born last month weighing 114 pounds at birth and 124 pounds five days later. Four reliable men weighed the calf and sent the record to the Stock Journal. Woodbury county asserts the world’s championship with the mother recovering after a near death.
The total salt sold in 1878 reached 7 662 658 barrels with 3 075 533 imported. About 1 856 000 came from Saginaw Michigan and 1 434 000 from Syracuse New York, plus 850 000 from Ohio and Virginia. Imports mainly came from Liverpool and suppliers in Sicily Cadiz Hyeres Turk's Island and Curaçao. Domestic production grows while imports decline.
A collage of quips and comic lines with wordplay on eye, Socrates, and lovers. The piece features puns about husbands named Good Resolutions, a teller committee of one, and a wide array of jokes about clergymen, pedestrians, a hard question about air tightness, and peculiar exchanges in social scenes. It closes noting a Minnesota miller claims a new wheat grinding process producing 80 percent middling.
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