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Newspaper
The Ohio Democrat
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1887
Page
1
The ad highlights Rempel's Pera House Bazaar with a vast display of toys novelties and housewares including dolls vases china wax figures and many gift items plus secondhand buggies. It notes Rempel's Drug and Grocery Store remains open and selling various goods.
A fine six year old Shakespeare Btalilon of good size and color offered for sale. Terms clearly stated as very reasonable by dealer Wm WeaTLaxn.
A cryptic lyrical fragment portrays marching soldiers and a somber road scene. The speaker declares a readiness to ride through dread and land of no name, urging steadfastness and endurance amid ominous pulses and unseen threats.
A narrative discusses the possession of inheritance by a former enslaved man, detailing how his black labor force, from elders to children, is accounted for after his death. It argues the system creates a hierarchy of skilled workers and claims the internal slave trade arises from necessity and debt, not mere cruelty.
In London this week an international shorthand conference celebrated Isaac Pitman’s phonetic system. The essay argues literature requires effort and intellect, not wealth, with promising writers shaping new forms rather than clinging to old methods.
A travelogue describes a Mandalay spectacle where trained elephants judge a misbehaving beast in a courtyard court martial. The scene features a mahout, a panel of elephants, and a verdict of twenty strokes delivered with a large switch amid dramatic cries and the keeper’s stern tone. Also includes glimpses of obelisks in London and New York, canned fish processes, stenography speeds, disease prevention, Chinese dining, mastodon bones, and archery from Yorkshire traditions.
A Globe Democrat manager letter complains that boxes obscure defects on stage and that critics in boxes cannot avoid marking flaws unless spectators admire the audience. The writer argues no box offers a perfect view and calls out managers for rushing critics to boxes.
Fragmentary notes describe a curious antiquity linking a Parag style to Hittite ideas and a possible eagle headed deity. The text hints at shared motifs with Mesopotamian and Egyptian monuments such as Carchemish, Babylon, and the Simbel temple, suggesting cross cultural influences across ancient sites.
A compilation notes alum improving turbid water and reducing bacteria in Mount Holly New Jersey, citing Loeda’s experiments and minimal tin reduction. It also includes a discussion on taste organization of tongue regions and a Boston Journal piece on mustard and pepper perception, plus a London Standard item about a coroner’s inquiry on a Thames boatman tale and Lincoln era car preservation in Auburn NY.
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