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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1881
Page
2
A fragmentary song urges Irish freedom and land reform with lines praising Dillon Davitt and Parnell. The chorus envisions a morning of independence as Columbia's sons pledge their best in support of the cause.
Uncle Phil and John pull a joke about a bought bureau stoking Aunt Susan's suspicions. The prank backfires when she discovers the ruse and she forgives them after the couple's new home becomes a village passion for old furniture.
A Dakota man vivid with scale describes vast farms, labor costs, and migration of families, claiming 420,000 square miles of land and 268 million bushels of wheat. He cites prairie logistics, mortgage gambles, and a scatter of towns while a Brooklyn audience probes for truth.
A humorous domestic moment unfolds as a proud husband reshapes himself to avoid embarrassment while his wife confides she used his blacking brush to polish the kitchen stove, revealing a candid domestic clash.
Professor Young explains cosmic scales and motions with concrete illustrations. He compares a world circumnavigating in eight days to a sun circled in 24 years and shows the Sun’s vast bulk, gravitational pull, and the enormous distances to stars, all on a human scale.
A Richmond Virginia paper reports a tragic death by self infliction at the home of Mr. Joseph M Blanton in Cumberland County. The victim is Richard Kirk of Mobile Alabama a recent University of North Carolina graduate.
A Casey county, Kentucky man displays his extraordinary son at St. Cloud hotel, a three year old who stands three feet four inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and measures 42 inches around the chest. The family plans further county fair exhibitions while noting the child is healthy and bright.
The Brooklyn Eagle predicts Chicago to New York trips dropping to twenty four hours as steel rails and better roads boost safety and speed. It notes Long No. 10 as a sample, foresees double driving wheels and lower boiler design to reach around 100 mph and reduce oscillation so 75 mph becomes common.
A Philadelphia commercial traveler tried to sneak an extra trunk onto a Tennessee bound train by convincing a stranger to pay for it. The traveler claimed to be the conductor and offered a free checked trunk, but the unsuspecting man balked and the ruse failed.
Paul Boyton recounts a disturbing custom of female slavery in a Missouri journey. He describes a rancher, George Mince, who buys women for labor and uses a 12 year old girl from Berthold Agency as a saleable commodity. The practice, he argues, enriches white buyers and harms Indian families, demanding government scrutiny and action.
Stories From the Sunny South reports Alex Bell of Alabama will be 14 on January 25 and weigh 355 pounds. Georgia farmer X Hirt sends a grape vine to the exposition from a 20 foot grown vineyard. A rattlesnake near Griffin Georgia eight feet long with 15 rattles chased a horse and wagon with a boy, then was shot. Wilmington Review cites a 18 foot 5 inch rattler with 40 rattles in Pendar county. Raleigh Observer recalls a moccasin near Pender about 18 feet long, though ten feet is a rare length for a rattlesnake.
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