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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1893
Page
4
A collage of humorous quotes and quips from various papers lampooning manners, marriage, travel, and social foibles. Jests touch on judges, pennies, diaries, crinoline, and a relic of elopements, with sly digs at pretensions and urban life.
Joseph Chettle, arriving from Columbia in Tuolumne County, reports a cave of human bones about two and a half miles from Columbia. The marble chamber spans 286 feet with offshoots, a blue and yellow glow from lights, and a scent of bones. About ten individuals lie there, no weapons or pottery found, suggesting a long burial without artifacts. Chettle kept the bones as mementos and described ghastly skulls scattered in a 140-acre tract owned by Columbia Marble Company.
A Detroit Tribune excerpt recounts a tale of women’s emancipation spanning ages ending with triumph. It shifts to a Arctic Sealing story about Capt. Momson’s crew and a cache on Spitzbergen, where thirty men perished awaiting rescue while frost and hunger claimed them.
The Rocky Mountain Call editor won a $1 prize for the best appeal poem urging newspaper men to pay subscriptions. The verse cites worn pants as a metaphor for unpaid dues and pleads for timely payments before winter prints into debt. Salvation Army Shelter.
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