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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1869
Page
1
Prayer text from the Messenger in which a speaker urges dawn or noon moments to go and act. The poem lists many places and conditions and ends with a moral reflection on good deeds and a divine summons. A mystical ending envisions rewards and a heavenly voice.
In a New York tale a dying wanderer on the Mississippi levee is aided by telegraph operator Miss Earl and a compassionate widow. The lover Gilbert is revealed as the dying man’s husband and the two reconcile after a fraught mistaken jealousy. Birdie’s memory ties the lovers, and June learns the truth, restoring their happiness.
In Professor Grover’s Velocipede Hall a student on a modified wooden horse sped toward an altered incline and vaulted through a window. He landed on a drugstore roof across an alley and barely avoided a fatal drop, cheering crowds watching from the hall windows.
The New York World reports a runaway elk from a deer shed during a park fire creating a wild chase among 200 park workers. The elk crossed the river toward Highbridge and Yonkers, leaping fences and walls before being confined in a shed near Fourth Street and Railroad Avenue and returned to Central Park.
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