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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1876
Page
1
A verse fable contrasts a stingy rich founder of a church with a poor man who gives a penny with true charity. The recording angel weighs deeds, showing the rich fund-raising folly versus the poor man’s compassionate gift. In the end, the heavenly judgment praises the penny with pity over wealth gained by cold calculation.
A tall wandering vendor hawks a so called universal cement claiming to mend broken hearts, fix breaches in couples and firms, and secure reputations. He touts a small white package and refuses agents as crowds press by and debate price.
A penniless narrator recalls buying a box of Universal Cement from a strange peddler who claims it can mend a teacup and discipline a child. The box turns out to contain only a note reading LOVE, while the tale shifts to a stark portrait of poverty and a mother tending a dying child, with the sunlit moment becoming a heavenly awakening.
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