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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1888
Page
6
A garbled passage contemplates the dawn of world, night sky, and divine order. It questions human mortality and the role of a creator, mentioning God, the Maker, and the cosmos. The text reads as a scattered, poetic meditation with numerous OCR distortions and unclear fragments.
An 1812 Ohio settlement story chronicles Robert Page and his son Jimmie manning a rifle on a high forked tree to watch the lick spring where sixteen Delaware men approach to raid. The Pages keep women and children in the dock-house while the log fort holds, and Jimmie and Mr Page spurred by danger resolve to alarm the settlement. Page fires on fleeing Indians twice, killing two, then fights through to warn neighbors as the siege subsides. Jimmie dies later in 1870 and is buried in a local graveyard.
A compact biographical sketch traces Washington Irving from his birth in New York in 1789 through his early studies, European travels, and rise as a writer. It highlights his collaborations on the Salmagundi Papers, the creation of History of New York, his diplomatic years, time in Madrid, and return to Sunnyside at Tarrytown, concluding with his enduring literary legacy.
The article traces Brazil’s abolition process from the 1870s through May of the year the piece was written, noting laws freeing slaves and compensating owners, with Dom Pedro II’s long reign and reforms highlighted. It mentions the 1875 act paying for adjudged slave value, age-based emancipation, and the ongoing evolution toward complete abolition amid political commentary.
A historical account describes ritual greetings of men and women at social gatherings, detailing shoulder touches and embraces as elaborate salutations. The narrative notes regional variations and preferences for nonlip contact, contrasting with lips kissing customs.
The article recounts Henry Waterman of Hudson New York, who as a boy whittled models with a jackknife. His father mocked him as a dummy, but Waterman vowed to wake an engine and name it The Dummy. He grew up to invent the locomotive called The Dumory, now in use widely.
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