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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1881
Page
6
A Civil War era scene depicts a company at night on a field of battle. Soldiers answer their comrades names with silence as the roll shows several fallen men and a dying drink is given to Ephraim Dean who carried the regiment colors. The piece notes a costly victory and the roll at Bead Argonaut.
A club of mariners recalls hair raising feats and a New York to Texas voyage capsize. The Orkney fowler scene, a London execution crush, and a Cape Hatteras wreck expose fear, courage, and the sea's merciless horror. Williams dies. Dougherty survives after four days adrift.
The article asserts the Free Masons originated in the 13th to 14th century Strasbourg cathedral, uniting German lodges into a single Fraternity by 1459, ratified by Emperor Maximilian. It notes the craft tools as emblems, the password Liberty, and the Fraternity’s abolition by the Imperial Diet in 1707.
An 1881 statute expands felony definitions for stealing or altering public records and for embezzlement by public officers and others. It prescribes penalties up to fourteen years and fines, broadens crimes such as shooting at public conveyances, removing goods under mortgage, and various forms of mischief, and outlines tougher enforcement to protect public muniments and funds.
Mrs. Pratt wife of Superintendent R H Pratt returns from Sierra Valley and recounts a stage robbery between Randolph and Truckee. A masked man seized the coach while three men two women and two children plus the driver viewed the mountain scenery during the trip. The driver and others were unharmed though the incident left an impression of danger and the rugged Nevada landscape.
A mysterious man enters the newsroom and, after borrowing tobacco from the police reporter, hands his card to the managing editor, signaling a curious encounter inside the paper.
A river editor recounts a bizarre tale from a self described snake writer who proclaims his stories entertain while harming none. The sketch details a girl named Judie Stayoff chased by a forest serpent that surprIisingly releases a diamond bracelet and wanders off, leaving locals to seek the writer’s obituary notices for a loom of fame.
A man describes his failing health and humble ambitions while debating why fame eludes him. He questions whether great figures such as George Washington Daniel Webster and Henry Clay achieved fame through grand deeds, then shifts to a practical plan to buy whitewash materials, ending with a pun about a music book full of airs.
A collage of humorous vignettes from a music hall and street life, including a Shanghai youth and a Louisville youth, a visiting organ solo remark, a New Jersey prayer meeting, a preacher's aside, a jailhouse joke about borrowed money, nautical banter, Dutchman misdirections, and quirky city ads. The pieces mix wordplay, dialect, and social quips with playful regional humor.
A moral excerpt on living to one’s nature, pursuing upright conduct, and the challenge of happiness. It argues steadfast adherence to virtue prevents ruin, notes admiration as pleasure, and compares saving cucumber varieties to knowledge growth.
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