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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1872
Page
3
A fragmented private poetry fragment describes a boy’s remembered kiss, referencing a mother and sister, then a girl described as sweet and rosy. The speaker muses on boyish love and the impossible wish to relive life’s early, wild thrill.
The Seventh Annual Reunion of the 96th Ohio Regiment will meet in Mt. Vernon Ohio on Thursday the 11th inst. Major General Burbridge of Kentucky is expected to attend and deliver the annual address at Wolf's Hall. A supper at the Commercial House will follow.
A New York Independent report describes Brother P-, a Mormon with four wives, facing wife loss as two new suitors pursue a young woman of about eighteen. The piece notes efforts to recruit her into another household while Brother P- seeks to remarry, leaving him with three wives and hardship.
A Virginia tale recalls a parson who would marry only for full payment. A couple offered twenty-seven cents, but the parson refused until the bride pleaded for “twenty-seven cents worth.” He relented and married them. A wagon driver’s joke about truth ends with a pedlar’s brick confusion. The piece notes 1871 crime and court figures from Vigo County Indiana.
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