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Newspaper
Springfield Globe Republic
Location
Springfield, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1885
Page
2
A garbled OCR sample from a Dayton Daily Democrat page cites shipping fare for steerage, political commentary on Grant and Voorhees, a boxing slugfest in New York, and references to Ohio tax and court decisions. It also notes Jewish rabbis in New York and remarks on journalism pay, with scattered editorial asides and misprints.
British government sent physicians to India to study cholera. Experiments on mice rats and monkeys showed no infection from cholera excretions while Kochs bacilli were tested on rabbits cats and monkeys but did not reproduce disease. Authors conclude mystery of cholera remains. empiricism must continue.
The essay sketches an American yet to rise from modest means, chasing fortune through enterprise while scorning menial toil. It contrasts wealth dreams with parsimony, praises brain power as practical readiness, and paints a restless, self confident national character wary of foreign domination and eager to claim a native art and vigor. The aria of ambition, mobility, and public projects underscores a restless drive toward affluence and self reinvention.
A New York publication carries a sweeping yarn about Earn W. Forman and a ship named Oven lost at sea. Forman recounts survival on a Micronesian island with natives, ruling by their rods, and a relocation to Sidney before reaching his friends. Philadelphia merchants back his tale with funding talks while Nantucket whaling circles doubt its veracity.
A Marion A. Baker reflection contrasts a future oriented ideal with disdain for relics of the past. The piece frames a confident, reformist national mood while noting change as regeneration, not ruin, and champions free institutions through a proactive present. The Detroit Free Press obituary vignette recalls a grieving scene at a hospital funeral and a young woman Emmy seeking her mother.
A report describes a city duel near The Oaks with temp editor, a quarrel, and a meeting of seconds. A letter from prominent citizens sought arbitration and the senator's son apologized, restoring peace as the long night of brilliant barley ends, per Nashville American.
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