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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1881
Page
4
A brief excerpt depicts a couple drawn close by a warm fire on a cold night. He sits nearer, she glows with beauty, and he gently places an arm around her waist while their shy affection is felt. The piece reflects a romantic moment from Hawkeye.
A verse fragment recalls an old man seething with anger as a galoot is lifted up the chimney amid soot. A girl sighs and vows to die, her mother leads her to bed, and tears flow softly as sorrow dominates the scene. The piece echoes a Hartford singer's mood.
A Chicago romance from Loves of My Life shows Miriam Jackson in a turreted villa gazing west toward the lake where lumber hookers float. George Simpson secretly joins her, proving his love, while Morgan’s raid ends with Gen Morgan fatally shot at Greenville as Confederate and Union forces clash nearby.
Col. J. E. McGowan writes in the Philadelphia Times about a brilliant dash tied to brigade concentration as notes were being prepared and dispatched.
Olive Logans London Letter praises simple princely dress for princesses with muslin frocks under ten dollars and modest boating styles. It contrasts fierce American spending with English restraint and notes fashionable tricycling attire, including a Velocipedienne costume enabling knee movement while keeping modesty.
A roundup notes the King of Siam appointing a London goldsmith to the royal court and a new Bank of England dining hall. It mentions Mozart’s manuscript found in Berlin and Siamese princes buying pianos in Paris. Other items cover conservation lighting, royal gifts, New Zealand sparrows, wolves in France, naval swimming entry, matches poisoning, consular plans on the Red Sea coast, Sir George Airy’s pension, a Louisville dispute, a demolition/woodpile mystery, royal tombs in Egypt, beer promotion funds, Harvard Divinity School reform, a Madrid Columbus portrait, a Bradford church panic, Tyrolese education law changes, the Philadelphia Centennial sale, a giant mirror sale, a Kentucky shootings tale, Sunday laws for Seventh Day Baptists, and fruit packing with carbonized bran to prevent decay.
Reports indicate a near settlement of the dispute between the Texas Pacific and the Southern Pacific. Neither side will carry out threats to build to San Francisco or Galveston. The Texas and Colorado Construction Company has contracted to build the first twenty five miles of road and to supply 16,000 tons of steel rails and other equipment.
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