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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1882
Page
2
A poem from Richmond dated January 22 1832 surveys taste and fashion. It lists sunflowers lilies pottery fans panels in Kate Greenaway style and Vedder's Christmas card while critiquing overdone aesthetics and urging practical common sense. It references an Oscar Wilde look and a reformist tone about beauty in daily life.
Dora Glade, a nineteen year old teacher, encounters Larry Farnsworth, a tall charming farm youth staying with his Uncle Jake Farnsworth near a country school. He proves studious in behavior and gradually stirs Dora’s interest, while a city letter hints at romance with a cultured suitor. After months, the pair reveal a playful masquerade and confess affection, leaving Dora torn between love and intellectual companionship.
In a rustic school setting Dora Glade confesses love to Ignoranmus as Lawrence Farnsworth seals a kiss. The scene closes with a hope for a peaceful future, contrasting with the comic misadventures of the lovers.
The Indiana fisheries commissioner Calvin Fletcher describes carp pond construction, stock management, and economics. He outlines pond layouts, soil choices, and water management, arguing carp farming could yield cheap protein and grow to thousands of new ponds statewide.
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt humorously portrays a torture of the ninth hundred ninety ninth witness as a combative prisoner at the bar heckles judges and lawyers. The exchange includes taunts about ancestry patience and timing ending with a forced adjournment to eleven o clock the next morning.
A dated reminiscence recounts Empress Eugenie kissing King Louis of Bavaria in Paris during the 1867 universal exhibition and his famed indignation. It also notes a later tale of a prima donna embraced at sea and cast overboard, with no reported fatal outcome.
A collage of dated witticisms and anecdotes gleefully pokes fun at money loss, vaccination with mucilage, odd deaths, eccentric marriages, and colorful local tales. Snippets mention San Francisco Chinese vaccination, Deadwood tombstones, ugly prose, and a risqué bedroom moment resolved by a vaccination joke.
Commissioner John K Husssel discusses horse care before the Farmers Meeting at Sacem Alags. He explains stomach capacity, recommended oat and hay rations, feeding intervals, water timing, digestion during work, and cautions on watering and corn. He favors bruised oats and warns against overfeeding and rapid eating.
An Austin reporter visits a wagon filled with pecans and hears a countryman recount a shooting incident over pecans. The exchange reveals dull local news and a gun scare as the reporter departs, while noting Australia grows more wheat than Britain and the U S acreage is greatly larger.
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