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Newspaper
The Ohio Democrat
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1887
Page
8
A jumble of questions and jokes from a 1887 issue explores telegram speeds, time differences, and a mix of humorous quips. It also recounts a dramatic child injury from a California home, local anecdotes from Washington and Dakota, court notes, and odd societal observations. The piece blends satire with brief notices on politics, Prohibition, railroads, and local mischief.
Dwight Whiting invites ten guests to an ostrich farm day. An enormous ostrich egg is boiled for an hour until the shell breaks revealing a three pound yolkless egg white. The party compares flavor and notes the egg’s size dwarfs a chicken egg.
REMPEL S Opera House Bazaar advertises a vast assortment of toys novelties elegant wares and household goods including dolls porcelain pictures frames mirrors vases music goods and more plus second hand buggies at attractive prices suitable for presents and daily use.
Rempel's offers a full line of groceries drugs paints liquors tobacco cigars hay and farming supplies. Agents for Champion mower reaping machines wagons drills buggies and carriages. Serving Mocking county farmers with durable goods at reasonable prices.
The unreadable fragment suggests orders for low priced paint and a local supplier in a U S setting. It mentions names like Bronke Nickle Boor Blues and Hines and references a Kyla territory. The garbled text obscures clear facts or events.
A colonial-era report describes Hindoo marriage norms in the Indies where women are forced to wed and endure cross marriages. It recounts Ruk Mikhal an eleven year old girl married to a nineteen year old, the court conflict, and a higher court reversal amid native pressure. The piece notes harsh fates for widows and contrasts with Russian polygamy norms.
Advertises Chicago and Atlantic Railroad passenger services with palatial Pullman day coaches and sleeping cars, through trains to avoid car changes, rates and tickets via coupon offices, signed by F C Doxann and F Bhoverrox. Also notes sale of a 100 acre farm near Webb's Summit Marton township Hocking Co with seven rooms, bank barn, apple orchards, seven springs, and contact A S Benny a Logan for details.
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