26 Mar 1885
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Newspaper
Springfield Globe Republic
Location
Springfield, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1885
Page
1
Readers are urged to buy heavy to light weight underwear as spring stock arrives. Prices are sharply reduced with cheaper fabrics and large stock. The note highlights gray worsted overcoats and corkscrew Worsted suits at reduced spring prices, plus youth sizes and bedazzled stock moving quickly as orders pour in.
Reports from London Aldershot and Portsmouth detail the queen ordering reserve troops into permanent service, 15000 Anglo Indian rifle and artillery redeployments, plus ships and rifles moving to India. Market gossip in Chicago and Cleveland notes wheat and other grains volatile as war news floods markets. A prison fire at Ohio Penitentiary causes heavy losses, while political moves in Ohio and St Louis reflect wartime anxieties and public notices.
A 3 to 2 Supreme Court of Ohio decision declares the Columbus reconstruction bill, known as the ripper bill, unconstitutional. The lengthy legal debate cites state constitutional barriers and hinges on the powers of the city to pursue redevelopment against state taxation rules.
Fragmentary dispatch describes an Egyptian engagement where Arabs launched renewed assault on English lines, suffering about 1 000 killed as troops under General Greham with Shropshire, Surrey and Sikes regiments moved toward Tansuai and Neille Zereta.
A Providence Journal commentary argues against universal reading for boys, urging parental and teacher guidance to shield youth from sensational and immoral books. It praises school led read-aloud programs that steer youth toward wholesome, engaging literature and warns that unfettered omnivorous reading harms ambition and attitudes about life.
A cultivated bachelor at a Winter Street hoarding house was teased for a loud habit as guests devised a prank. A tin horn with a note advised he play horn for table variety, prompting him to flee the house and bid farewell after the warning.
A Western thyt reports a quirky Haiti Street scene where a girl and a young man confront a chaotic dry goods mishap. Paper twists exploded into a strange inflating contraption as a ridiculous skirt with rooms collapsed on the sidewalk, prompting a tense, comical moment and a blush of embarrassment for the passerby.
A literary miscellany contrasts fools who never wonder with thinkers who endlessly question. The piece extols wonder as a uniquely human faculty, cites Voltaire and Plato to illustrate the idea, and references a Brooklyn Eagle parody about Plato’s man. It ends with a note on population forecasts from a Lowell lecture.
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