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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1874
Page
2
In a small Norwich village Ed Wilbur schemes to pair bachelor Bill Smiley with Widow Watson. Bill attempts to woo, inflamed by schemes and a show, but a bridge mishap and a chaotic dash rescue him. The tale ends with the two couples attending the show amid comic relief and gossip.
A lengthy critique argues that rising taxes come not only from honest programs but from expansive demands by charities education science commerce and culture. It warns that unchecked public schemes burden taxpayers and jeopardize constitutional stability, urging subordination of nonessential government functions to private enterprise and a return to core duties. The piece stresses that party politics distract from principle and calls for a public sentiment to curb government overreach and preserve republican government.
Aboard the steamer Alexander Mitchell at Alu Wis a keg of wine fell overboard and a deckhand, a Black man, jumped in to retrieve it after the mate insisted. He objected and the mate tried to throw him in but they both ended up in the river, both emerging soaked. A joke about a man who grumbled over coins follows a political crowd and a burly whistle taller than a miller is asked if he is honest because he has ground coins for half an hour without minting toll.
A Pennsylvania lunatic asylum story notes a man imagining himself a woman and parting his hair in the middle. It recalls several young men outside the asylum who part their hair similarly, supposedly because they love the reason behind the fashion in a humorous anecdote.
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