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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1875
Page
2
A fragment from the Troy Herald recalls a moonlit walk with a young woman. The speaker describes a night of youth and emotion, fear and triumph, ending with a kiss that seals a brave, hopeless longing. The prose weaves memory with longing as the destination nears.
A May move into a neat row of similar houses introduces Nob Roy Helen and a brave baby. The child wins the street’s affection until illness strikes, the parents’ love deepens, and a daughter’s charity helps heal a grieving mother as pansies bloom over the child’s grave.
A compact note explores common misuse of lay and lie in phrases like hens set and birds sit. It clarifies distinctions between lay meaning place or produce and lie meaning recline, showing how incorrect forms spread in family speech and instruction.
A Vermont farmer and devout church member lends at nine percent, prompting a neighbor to plead for six percent. The farmer replies that when the Lord looks down the digits will appear differently, turning nine into six in his moral math.
The Denver Mirror quotes a Fremont county preacher who compares life to a game of seven-up, urging not to beg when holding a good hand and to play honestly. He warns that the devil has stocked the cards, but a fair play leads to a winning hand while cautioning that turning jack remains uncertain and betting should be avoided.
A Milwaukee girl started up a ladder left at her father’s house before a quarter of the ascent, a crowd gathered and she protested with humor saying the scene was no free circus this afternoon.
A young colored man in the city offered a peppermint lozenge to a girl at a gate and asked her to bite the other half. She declined with a bold retort, telling him to act “like a white man” if he wanted to marry her.
A father fearing a regional quake sent his two boys to a distant friend's wall. Weeks later the father received a letter urging him to bring the boys home and send down the earthquake.
A fragmentary reflection on studying the world to improve it. The author urges use over condemnation and frames love as the path to a happier world, presenting a poetic meditation on benevolence and human responsibility.
A fragmentary line suggests a devilish editor quarrel over renting to a woman. The exchange hints at a moral disturbance linked to a woman and a marketplace, reflecting a dated, provocative tone.
A Kansas report details a young woman in Marion Center who allegedly devoured twenty two car of corn in a single meal, claiming as much as a bushel of meal per bite. If this pace continues, observers warn it could unhinge her digestion and attract attention from local eateries.
A Washington county farmer told his son, a young graduate, that Latin and Greek are fine but he wants a man who can walk around an apple tree and touch the roots with his hoe. The rustic remark highlights practical farming wisdom over book learning.
A contemporary quips that Brigham Young wore a weed on his hat when courting a wife to please a mother in law. He jokes the hat would have to be twenty seven feet high.
A fragmentary OCR line presents jumbled words about a Wieconain wisower and ether iwordfing amid eleven men before noon. The text abruptly shifts and ends with nonsensical phrases about saying and meaning. No clear event or identifiable entities emerge.
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