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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1877
Page
4
Mrs Westle recalls a poignant scene at Mrs Gay ford's death bed. An engineer husband racing a locomotive from Cincinnati to Dayton to reach Richmond heard his wife’s familiar whistle as she spoke her goodbye. He arrived just as she faded, a final, moving moment.
A fragment from a period piece blends a spirit medium dialogue with a humorous court case. A departed husband teases about nineteen children and polygamy while a living man faces flies, hunger, and a landlord dispute. The tale folds in mock sermons on flies and a comic exchange about Noah’s ark bees.
The excerpt surveys a Chinese divinity and his six precepts, then shifts to a San Francisco Microscopical Society report on a cupro-scheelite mineral found on the Pacific coast that may have industrial value for producing a tungetic of soda. It ends with a humorous “Jonundrums” quiz featuring many riddles about daily life.
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