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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1881
Page
2
A speaker contrasts a spotless, orderly home with the speaker's chaotic, loving life among four lively boys. The poem laments stains and mess yet defends the joy and bustle of motherhood, rejecting the fantasy of pure domestic order in favor of cherished family.
In Washington a idle bachelor discovers meaning by helping at a soup house, aiding a marble dust boy, and pursuing Mrs Jones, transforming from a detached fancier of leisure to a man with a concrete aim amid the President's peril and national fatigue.
Report from the Lone Star ranch notes a three-eyed three-eared three-tailed sheep and claims fear turned sixty two black-sheep wool white, boosting value. Specialist Mr. W. W. Cook cites coyote incident and wool price gains outweigh losses.
The landlady’s daughter sighs over Jack’s dismantled room as he leaves after destroying his will. A marble-dust boy pockets tobacco pipes Jack hid, prompting the girl to call him dirty. A snow storm had delivered Cupid to the door via a naked street boy, changing lives.
A month ago A. Learett of Oakland, an engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad, was badly burned when his engine overturned in Arizona. Surgeons transplanted flesh from twenty eight volunteers whose limbs were bared. the procedure restored his leg nearly to its former condition. The company granted two months extra pay and authorized leave. Learett, at 893 Peralta street, is recovering. PRAs threshing separates wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify our Virtues.
Fargo correspondent details Mr. Dalrymple’s vast wheat operation covering 30,600 acres with 600,000 bushels forecast, 200 self-binding harvesters and 30 steam threshers. Production costs about $7 per acre, net price around $1 per bushel, and logistics via Duluth to Buffalo.
A collection of aphorisms on virtue, adversity, restraint, and self discipline. It extols duty as safe passage, silence as mental nourishment, tenderness to the gentle, and effort over luck as the path to competence. It cautions against vanity and welcomes a measured, conscientious life.
The piece presents Coleridge’s theory that women stay young by treating their sixteenth year as their first age and counting the seventeenth as their true birthday. It argues women shed age markers at forty five to regain bloom at twenty nine, claiming charming women cannot be older.
A mosaic of humorous snippets and wordplay fills this fragmentary page. It mixes poems, jokes, misread dialogues, and eccentric vignettes about editors, family gossip, and small town quirks, with stray lines about headlines, editors, and odd observations in a rapid collage of humor.
The piece notes rising bridesmaid counts at high society weddings as brides shift to elaborate ceremonies. It cites Miss McGarrel-Hoge becoming Mrs Saumarez and Miss Nicholl becoming Mrs Kennard, with similar support for Foljombe and Leveson-Gower. It argues wedding expenses climb yearly and few embrace simplicity, despite some early moves toward traveling attire.
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