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Newspaper
The Ohio Democrat
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
2
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Fragmentary verse laments a dying year and fading seasons. Mentions Hon William Iensinus Whyax and a New Year renewal. Reads as a reflective, poetic obituary to 1900 with themes of loss and hope.
A narrator visits a town library with his sister Susan after a hurried trip from Oldchester. Susan reacts sharply to a gift from Herbert Cameron, while the narrator uncovers a mystery about a Will and a strained family moment. The scene centers on siblings, a cherished book, and hints of unresolved obligations.
In a genteel parlor scene, a mistaken New Year note opens amid letters and suspicions. Sue and Tom debate handling a misaddressed Miss Morrison communication, while Cameron seeks reconciliation and the narrator reflects on marriage folly and social proprieties. The mood shifts to a dinner invite and a light domestic drama.
Edward W. Townsend recounts a roguish scheme centered on a doctor known as Doe. The plan intertwined fake diagnoses, a feast of malingering patients, and a staged medical quest leading to a New Year departure for life practice in San Francisco, ending with a banquet and an envelope of over five thousand dollars. The narrative conveys a brash, irreverent tone of clever con artists and a comic, moral undertone.
The passage surveys January rites from England Ireland and France to Norway and Wales, noting processions prayers, New Year gifts, sweets, superstitions, and calendar shifts. It references Bayot era beginnings, Emancipation Proclamation timing, and Roman Janus traditions as guardians of year starts and new enterprises.
A list of varied holiday dishes and beverages including oyster soup roasted turkey cranberry sauce salad pumpkin pie tea cream and assorted beverages. The fragment mentions items like coolash wax sauce rop at turkey and esciloped salad with no complete preparation details or sourcing.
An account describes Moghul Indians New Year rites called Boyalatia, featuring origin myths, sun dance, and a serpent ceremony in a kiva. Villagers watch the sun’s return and propitiate the great serpent with offerings, chants, and a dramatic sunbearer clash.
In Japan for a thousand years the Alos keep centuries old rites with New Year feasting centered on sakl. The Omela bear feast culminates in the brutal slaughter of a cub raised for sacrifice to Kamut, with the foster mother grieving as kin drag the bear to the ritual tree and proceed to kill it in a violent display.
In Marquette Michigan Eliza Runnells reportedly faced a county jail charge for disorderly conduct after authorities found she carried about $4 190 in cash bonds and government notes plus $1 000 in cash. Jail officials were astonished by the amount and noted years of nuisance behavior near New Kenner Ishpeming.
John M. Whitehead of Lee county will soon introduce a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates aimed at stopping plates carrying amid a rise in shooting affrays. The measure would authorize magistrates to search suspects without warrants if suspicion is correct, with penalties including up to thirty years in jail for the guilty.
The tale recalls Johnnie Potts known as the Terror and Ben Franklin of the 1880s border towns. After a night of drinking in Caldwell, Potts attacked. Franklin disarmed him. Potts died from gunfire, Franklin's future haunted by the sight. Potts was buried near the camp, and Franklin returned to Texas a changed man.
This fragment reports post convention movements with National Committeeman Frank Conebell and Norman C Mackary visiting Hevatur Jones of Arkansas to discuss holding a Democratic Craven. It hints New York party organization changes and a new chairmanship amid a disrupted Empire State political situation.
Dispatches report American forces under General Grant and General Lawton in the Philippines facing Philippine resistance near Marsha and Olongapo. Messages mention troop movements, ammunition shortages, and exhausted horses as generals push toward key positions while coordinating with Admiral Watson and naval transport arrivals.
A recently returned observer details a tropical rite where devotees pierce their backs with iron and are swung aloft on long poles balanced like a well sweep, presenting a striking self inflicted ritual.
Mrs Edwards of 618 Washington Street Hoboken received a letter from a young man asking to meet and ride a trolley to Rutherford. Bowery Detectives arrested him, claiming Albert Hamilton of Rutherford worked for Hoboken Ferry Co. Hamilton held on $200. Joby Potter of Oakland Cal, discharged private, was shot and killed during a robbery attempt in Benson while leaving a Watchman store. Coroner’s jury cleared the night watchman. Holiday rates to begin in December with disputed dates. The Pope reportedly worsened at home with fits of silvering. details unclear.
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