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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1880
Page
3
A nostalgic verse praising Fanny Hall as the sweetest, fairest girl with blue eyes and a peachy complexion. The speaker compares her to idealized beauty, noting Madonna brows, perfect form, and a sweet warble in her voice, while claiming others would admire her charm.
Dr Blunt's rapid kindness changes Miss Lacey from anxious patient to active helper. She aids Janie Cameron through a dangerous night, then joins his Dorcas Society drive and Sabbath school work, while gossip and ambition swirl in the village.
An army captain in the Bengal Staff Corps and his wife endure rat damage in a remote Indian station. The father, wounded in action, seeks hardy upbringing for his son. The narrator recalls rats gnawing boots and grain bins, and observes clever, fearless rat behavior in a rough bungalow amid fever and isolation.
A girl near Rathboneville watches a dove mourn the loss of its mate after a fatal collision with a locomotive on the Erie line. The surviving bird returns daily to the same mile-post, awaiting the train at the same time each morning, then circles the stack and car seeking its partner. Thomas Miller's remains found in the burned Thomas Mill ruins.
A southern New York farmer trades his bay mare for a hundred dollars and two Berkshire pigs after a religious camp meeting, only to learn the mare died the next morning and the buyer keeps the animals. The tale unfolds with hymns, bargains, and a comical twist that leaves the father plotting redress.
A Denver traveler describes an excursion to Georgetown California aboard a Colorado Central Railroad train. The journey begins last Friday from Denver in an observation car to view Clear Creek Canyon scenery and irrigated valleys, covering about 52 miles west to Georgetown. The fertile valley along the route shows corn potatoes and wheat fields ripe for harvest as the train crosses the landscape.
A dispute at E P Allis Bay State shops features workers debating eating feats. A German machinist offers to eat twenty four hard boiled eggs and a half pound of butter if the crew buys them, illustrating boastful competition around eating power.
The Primitive Baptists held their annual Lord's Supper and feet washing in Hillsville Virginia. About eight hundred members from across the South attended the ceremony with elders directing the rite and members participating in a circular seating arrangement.
The St Paul carrying sealskins from Ounalaska reached port after leaving St Michael's on July 5. ALr Arskine, captain of the St Paul, doubts any return of the missing whalers or the Jeannette Willever while contrasting hopes with an aged mariner who recalls ice as high as the foreyard.
On the application of his wife and son Joseph K Emmett Fritz Emmett a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of habitual drunkenness and neglect of family to confine him for a short time in an institution Emmett could not appear at the Grand Opera House Monday night due to his absence in New York August 31
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