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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1882
Page
2
An 19th century New York Sun poem lists predicted world endings through years 1658 1859 1882 1884 1885 1886 1887 and 1890 with mock certainty and rhyme as evidence. The verse credits Mother Shipton rival and lampoons doomsday prophecies.
In a memoir tone the author recalls starting a small district school at sixteen and facing rough pupils. Aunt Anna guides him to win the girls’ influence to tame the class, leading to a chaotic yet comic battle where the girls’ power secures order and the preacher-hero becomes their favorite.
Appears as a reflective, aphorism filled essay on character virtue and wisdom. It emphasizes patience, ideas, happiness near at hand like spectacles, and cautions against vanity and deceit. It critiques cunning, stresses true friendship and self control, and extols charity, good breeding, gratitude, and abstinence over excess.
A collage of 19th century gossip items recount a contralto Annie Cary railcar room prank, a Russian minister and wife’s Washington fiasco, color prejudice at a Toronto skating rink, and a Washington Newport diplomatic scandal, plus related oddities from New York and Tennessee about marriages, unions, and society embarrassments.
A misissued license in one county and illegal ceremony in another triggered a distressing situation as a young woman feared being torn from her husband. Her parents were en route to intervene, but a second license permitted a final ceremony, ending the affair before the family arrived. The incident sparked sensational talk nationwide and was cited as a warning to young couples.
A Philadelphia girl aged 14 dies from delirium tremens. The piece catalogs assorted 19th century items including German bakers in London, Pat McGinnis’s $3,000 spree, a mass death by phosphorus and ink, school gift discipline in Hamilton Ontario, Utah mine wealth, Georgia railroad policing power, and civic notes on New York Brooklyn union talks, plus local stories from Madison Ohio and Philadelphia bars.
Dr. G M Granville argues health science extends passive life more than true vitality. He contends longevity without happiness or usefulness rises from excessive efforts to avoid illness. He warns sanitary progress may moralize life and asks if a healthful life is worth pursuing.
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