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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1880
Page
6
Fair Eve kneels by Eden gate and pleads for a single Eden rose. An angel grants a red rose at the rivers meeting and binds Eve to yearn for Eden forever. The legend promises one scent of paradise to a doomed mortal, shaping her fate through endless cycles.
A suburban evening at Percy and Myrlie Dingwhiff’s home leads a circle of friends through a mock séance. The table tilts as Mr. Dingwhiff battles bustling spirits via a pencil message from the supposed spirit Sandy Briggs. The trick unravels when the supposed spirit claims Myrlie as a future bride, revealing a playful but awkward moral.
William P. Neeld of Hillsboro County when confronted by a nine-foot alligator near a drain from a lake into the Gulf of Mexico used a pocket knife and a stick to kill it after a fierce fight. He struck the animal, throttled it, and delivered multiple stabs to the neck until it died. He severed the head as a trophy and described post mortem convulsions that made the carcass seem alive.
A Pennsylvanian report describes a boy at the State Training School whose memory is astonishingly exact. After hearing a sermon or lecture he can repeat it verbatim with accurate intonation, including Latin phrases and technical terms, as shown when he recalled a scientific lecture in Media the next day.
A California coachman famed for daring stage driving dies of tongue cancer at a Watsonville hillside cabin. In death, Charley Parkhurst is unveiled as a woman, shocking friends who had known him for decades and confirmed by local physicians. The life spans pioneer farming and woodwork, then cattle raising before retirement.
Pittsburg Telegraph reports David Hughey a Youngstown laborer went on a drunken spree last week climbing a furnace top at Struther's. He hurled missiles as workers fled and threatened revenge for his brother’s death. Marshal Evans and James Kennedy climbed to subdue him, saving lives as they wrestled on the platform in darkness.
A marshal and Kennedy intervened as a man dangled between railings, inches from falling to certain death. The marshal assisted, securing the suspect with handcuffs and placing him in Youngstown lock-up until further processing.
The piece recalls a Newport society ball in Mrs Gowley’s Assembly-room celebrated with Dezo reux decorations and music by Rochambeau’s party. It highlights popular dances of the era, Master John Trotter’s dancing mastery, and an advertisement by M W Bonnemot offering French lessons.
A hurried wedding takes place by telephone in which Minister presides and Algernon Smithkinson and Malinda Duzenberry affirm their vows. The ceremony ends with a brief pronouncement and a quirky closing remark about ten dollars.
Johnson Pa Tribune reports two large drives of turkeys entering town with orderly marches resembling a soldiers file. Leaders are fed grains to guide miles of travel. dusk roosting risks cause the flock to scatter, but farmers aim to house them in barns before roosting time.
Night hours shape days by solving problems, recalling motives, and refining plans. The essay argues nights reveal truths day hides and correct day’s haste, urging fuller acknowledgment of both days and nights rather than counting only the daylight.
A collage of light vignettes and quips about marriage, aging, fashion, and morals. Includes jokes on courtship and sermons, a tale of a two headed lamb, cottontail wit about bonnets, and a Quaker shopkeeper parable. The piece closes with a child’s wish to fly to carry Aunt Susan away.
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