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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1888
Page
6
Fragmented, lyric reminiscence recalling a winter night wedding. The speaker wanders through half-formed lines about love, marriage, and lost moments, with many garbled phrases and incomplete passages. The tone hints at nostalgia and emotional reflection on vows and happiness.
English sportsman Jarvis Maggiore leads a hunting party into gorilla country where a male gorilla attacks with ferocity and a gun misfire leads to a savage encounter. Zigzag the native dog dies, Maggiore kills the beast after a perilous pursuit, and the crew returns with a fearsome tale of a 55 foot nine inch colossal rival in the wild.
A description of the great monastery of St Alexander Novak and the adjacent complex near Prospect, highlighting its vast grounds, surrounding walls, multiple structures, and immense wealth. The text notes the monastery’s influence in the empire and its proximity to the central city’s theatre and other notable buildings.
A long discourse on wealth, luxury, and thrift contrasts money worship with practical labor. It cites philosophers, plumbers, and professional baseball as paths from poverty to fortune. The piece mingles satire with reflections on greed, idleness, and social virtue in a verbose, period tone.
A reflective essay critiques belief in gambling fortune and the persistence of human patterns. It argues the idea of a stable “maturity” of events is questionable, noting entrenched biases, repeated errors, and the danger of trusting luck over reason.
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