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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1880
Page
3
A Logansport Journal verse praises beauty in faith filled lives. It celebrates beautiful faith guiding to heaven, patient prayer, steadfast bearing of burdens, and the peace of eternal rest beyond the setting sun. It invokes the phrase well done as a promise of victory.
Harry MacGregor defies family plans by courting Clara Dale and promising a cozy home after bossy Louise Nesbitt dismisses her. Clara accepts, and the two depart together, revealing a sudden marriage and a new life in Saratoga after a dramatic departure from the MacGregor household.
A reader reflects on usury and moral duty in funding railways through debentures at 4 percent. He argues economic growth and national prosperity justify interest income and cites the London and Northwestern Railway Company as an example. The piece questions whether such finance contravenes divine will and contemplates ethical limits.
Louis Baude a journeyman baker living near Paris was found guilty of attempted murder by poisoning customers with arsenic mixed into dough. The defense argued the poison could not kill, but a Paris jury condemned the act though no one died. Baude previously poisoned two horses and faces the guillotine or galley punishment.
The death of Lewis L. Clermont alias Ralph L. Rolland alias La Dezina, at the Eastern Penitentiary follows a lifetime of elaborate confidence schemes across the United States. He escaped Chambersburg prison walls in 1870 and, after a long criminal career spanning war service, bank frauds, stock jobbing, and multiple arrests, died of Bright’s disease during confinement.
A San Francisco broker helps a landlady seek wealth by investing in Consolidated Virginia stock. He gains $4,000 but she insists on reinvesting the profits. After pressure, he loses half the original stake and she sues for the remainder, testing greed and gratitude.
The New York Tribune notes the US population may outpace England’s growth yet cites British gains from American expansion. It argues English and Irish labor benefits at home as transfers drive migration to Minnesota and Colorado, while UK’s position remains tied to US progress. The Times likens US relative strength to a solvent merchant benefiting from interlocutors' bankruptcy.
Washington Post notes that horses show surprising interest in street car work, with examples of their involvement in the daily routine and labor on the track. The piece reflects on how even routine urban life can engage animal participation.
Miss Grundy laments costly toilet luxuries in Philadelphia Times style. She notes stockings priced up to 125 per dozen and embroidered items meant to be seen, while parasols, sashes, belts, and artificial flowers flaunt wealth. She observes fashionable displays at Saratoga and describes colors, fabrics, and notable examples such as Mrs. Wetherell’s white silk parasol with colored flower embroidery. The piece critiques both women and men for flaunting fashion.
A local paper reports Mt Hood in Washington Territory has begun to show life with a bright nightly light seen from the summit and flames shooting from the crater. In Little Rock on August 14, the first bale of cotton from the current crop sold at auction for 26 cents, weighing seven hundred pounds.
A 19th century explanation stresses buoyancy over swimming. A pound of water support keeps a head above water, a chair or plank can carry two adults, and using a board as a paddle allows shoreward travel. Trust water’s buoyancy to save lives in life or death drownings.
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