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Newspaper
Orland Zenith
Location
Orland, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
2
A speaker recalls hearing a wondrous choir voice and falling in love. He envies a gifted singer and ultimately ends beside her in church, where her singing mirrors his heart’s joy. The poem from Town and Country frames love as a celestial ascent.
After his rustication for leading juniors in stealing seniors mortar boards Jack Long schemes revenge on Prof. Thomas Erskine Hope by pairing him with Miss Helen Harvey at the Longs Wisconsin cottage. The ruse succeeds as Hope is drawn to Helen and proposes marriage in a public fadeout.
A Virginia themed study notes the early clergy’s close ties to parishioners, blending pastor and community life. It describes the pastor as a social mediator who joined in meals, races, and ceremonies, sometimes to excess, yet maintaining sound teachings and strong influence. It adds a Hungary note on scarcity of doctors and villages near towns.
A veteran bandmaster recalls Bolivar the elephant from the Forepaugh show. The white elephant caused costly mischief from flour in a minister's kitchen to uprooting a garden. Johnson the trainer vanished, and Bolivar marched with the band until the trainer returned. Forepaugh sent Bolivar to the Philadelphia Zoo.
A grim verse from the Denver Post ties a hidden motive to the death of Mitchell Coots, alleging a failed deception and a concealed body in a Missouri setting. The poem invokes Gabriel's trump and hints at a violent motive before a later marriage elopes with a lightning-rod peddler.
In Cincinnati the oldest drug store and its veteran owner Jacob Stuebert endure beside forgotten remedies. At ninety one he keeps a stock over fifty years old, opens and closes daily, and recalls a time when skulls and powdered crabs eyes were once used. He refuses to retire despite dwindling customers and a city directory that no longer lists him.
A satirical piece from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle imagines the Czar preparing for perilous travel by clothing reinforced with steel. The speaker jokes about armor like copper shoes and riveted garments to deflect bullets, fearing a Nihilist attack during a morning errand.
A World’s Work excerpt notes autos boost endurance and power, aiding a Paris beggar who now launches errands in a one horsepower cart to earn income. It mentions a Honolulu public service, Madagascar routes, a Paris car de luxe for the English king, socialist tours in Pennsylvania, Emperor William cups, and fire departments in London and New York using autos with Hartford possessing a self moving engine. The State Department asks consuls for foreign city operation rules.
A preacher encounters an old mountaineer crouched in bushes with a rifle who says he awaits Jim Johnson and, with divine help, intends to blow his head off. Scribner’s notes the blunt vow amid a rural scene and a quip about grammar in sports.
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