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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
2
A Saturday Review essay argues that talking to oneself is feared as a sign of madness though such self dialogue is common in everyday speech. It notes Hamlet as an unreliable authority and suggests soliloquies arise from ordinary expression rather than insanity.
A historical note lists Sir Henry Parkes of New South Wales, Peter the Great, and William Cobbett among celebrated figures who married women who earlier served as domestic helpers. The anecdotes describe how each man took a servant as wife after chance meetings and marriages years later.
The article recounts a governor of Missouri pardoning a prison inmate, then delivering a stern moral warning. He predicts future folly and moral reckoning, citing brutal mistreatment of a boy on a river exchange project as the price of pardon. The tale ends with a stark lesson on cruelty and accountability.
Harold Scott, in The Atlantic, cites Southey’s 1808 remarks on Wordsworth. He praises The White Doe of Bilster Hall though noting Wordsworth’s intense selfishness and self-importance. Southey finds the faults amusing yet respects him overall.
A visiting girl points out a horse with watery eyes and a cough, noting it hangs its head like her papa’s horse. The owner asks how her father handled his horse, and she answers simply that he sold him.
A wealthy man who owns a country seat recounted his wife nearly drowning in a river on his estate. He shared the tale with friends who congratulated him. An old bachelor friend quipped I always told you that river was too shallow.
The exchange jokes that experience arrives too late to teach youth the lessons once believed learned. A reader asks how Dick got ahead, and another note says he was picking up a horseshoe for luck.
The text outlines that a contract with a firm binds each member, reliance is required for breach of express warranty, and partners must be strictly recognized between themselves. It notes a contract signed by an individual may be executed by a firm using that name, that a partner cannot encumber firm assets for personal debt, and that creditors cannot defraud others. It also covers damages for rejected goods and binding written contracts directed by a party.
A Toohemian peasant girl inspired the polka during a Sunday dance in Elbeleinitz observed by artist Josef Neruda. The dance spread to Prague, Vienna, then Europe, praised for blending waltz intimacy with Irish jig vitality. A theatrical horse episode ends with a moral on humble effort.
A New York Weekly item jokes about a shopper wanting two large carpet remnants for a flat and a salesman insisting such a size cannot be a remnant, highlighting a humorous miscommunication.
A reflective note recalls a promised meeting that never happened and the speaker’s ensuing distress over a dress the beloved liked, capturing a moment of intimate frustration and longing.
Readable lines show a schedule fragment with locations Lv Vincennes Flora Springfield St Lewis and various times such as 6:00pm 6:43am and 10:35am. Hidden context suggests transit or train timetable parts with numbers like No. 12 and No. 8.
Office in Crowder building east side of square offers land surveying civil engineering mine surveying and drainage of wet lands as specialties orders by mail receive prompt attention.
Abstracters of titles and estate settlement experts operate from Coffman block on the East side public square. Specializing in examining and perfecting titles with careful management of estates and heirs.
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