24 Aug 1854
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Newspaper
The Investigator
Location
Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1854
Page
1
A poetic fragment speaks of a lone starry hour and love. The speaker longs for reunion under a moonlit sky and distant seas, awaiting a welcome as guitar strings glow with romance and dreams. The verse centers on love, night, and distant journeys.
A composite item from Waverly Magazine and St Louis Herald. It covers reflections on death emphasizing acceptance and love, and a Missouri case where a girl supposedly bewitched by a black snake led to illness and a fatal shooting of the reptile by her father. The account portrays snake fascination as a warning to parents.
E G Horne surgeon dentist at Front Street near Bowmng 83 Store M B Jackson attorney at law Front Street below Market Eagle Hotel proprietor Col H B Hillman Wilkes Barre corner of Market Franklin Streets McNair and Ross blacksmiths shop Jackson and Woodin's Foundry.
A global statistic claims sixty births and deaths occur each second. The statement emphasizes continuous human life events worldwide without regional details.
A London Democrat piece urges readers to resist the first drink and warns of ruin from intoxication. It pleads with those who have strayed to reform, appeals to Christian duty, and stresses the effect on family, urging abstinence and devotion to heaven.
A moral exhortation to husbands urges fidelity and constant care. It cautions that neglect grants future regret and penalties for breaking vows. The piece appeals to a man’s duty to cherish his wife and assails forgetfulness, absence, and indifference.
The passage likens slander to a pestilence in darkness and a heart searching dagger. It describes slander as a poisoned arrow with an incurable wound, employments of murder, innocence as its prey, and gain as its sport.
A decade past at San Diego a humorous incident recounts Col Magruder forcing a musical party into a wagon ride to New Town. A doctor named Jake Keyser sang a rowdy medical chant and performed an impromptu dance before being escorted back to the wagon. The piece ends with quips on spirits, drinking, and a Buffalo mansion bread recipe.
A traveler tells of a man who lost his hat between Bristol and London and, to recover it, threw his hat-box from the carriage window. He reasoned the hat would be found and sent on to London with his name on the box, a plan confirmed when Swindon officials reported the hat and box reached the owner.
A fragment lists prescriptive parenting rules for early education. Emphasizes obedience, calm discipline, clear promises, demonstration of tasks, non anger, self control, temper management, measured punishment, avoiding rewards for crying, consistent rules, truthfulness, and discouraging tale bearing.
A fashionable lady describes to a friend her intended house as sublimated and splendiferous with a Porto Rico front and a Pizarro rear. She mentions lemonade around it water at the side in an anecdote, a degraded lawn, and large trees to be supplanted in the oritiq in the rear.
A double entendre on home furnishing suggests couples start with luxury wood choices like rosewood and gradually settle into simpler pine in decorating parlors. The line encourages thoughtful purchases for lasting domestic life.
A reflective line notes that temperance and well being align naturally with joy and balance, using a common saying about harmony and wholesome living.
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