27 Mar 1895
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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1895
Page
1
A collage of verse and prose reflecting longing for home by Stevenson and Clayton plus a New York domestic intrigue. A lovers’ confrontation ends with Jackington marrying Sara Everett as deceit is exposed, amid editorials on life insurance for single women and animal anecdotes and bean farming notes from across North America.
Sara Everett lives at Miss Jessamine's refined boarding house where six tenants reside. Mr. Jackington, pondering love, courts Sara while jealous rivals doubt her virtue and speculate on her true intent in this social microcosm.
The article notes the United States dominates world cotton and corn, producing about 9 of 12 million cotton bales and 1.2 billion bushels of corn in 1894. It cites historical highs in cotton and corn, lists crop values by state, and mentions hay and tobacco as surprising value leaders, with Kentucky leading tobacco and Pennsylvania leading the northern states. It also includes a brief anecdote about Mark the elder.
A Florida coast tale describes H T Woodman’s visit to a whitewashed home near Tampa Bay. The owner kept land and underwater gardens with cabbages, clams, oysters, crawfish, crabs, and a palmetto crib shelter. A second story recalls a Polish depot incident and James Gordon Bennett’s office pranks.
A eclectic newspaper note discusses the rise of wood pulp in paper making, noting vast uses from pulp coated armor ideas to paper boats and coffins. It also surveys social sketches, including Richard Gilder with President Cleveland at Buzzard's Bay and a Cumberland railway quip about thoughts.
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