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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1878
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR from the Troy Herald page shows garbled text and partial entries. Readable items are unavailable. no coherent event, person, or organization details can be confirmed for a factual summary.
Walter Byrne recounts a summers at Long Branch with Nettie Haymond, his cousin Tom, and Tom's wife Amy. After years apart Byrne heals from illness and fatefully reunites with Nettie, who finally accepts his plea for love and marriage after a tense, hopeful reunion.
The text laments worry as a wasteful, unproductive mental state. It argues perpetual concern drains the nervous system without yielding any relief, duty, or pleasure, yet people invite it as if needed for some payoff.
The excerpt notes various figures who began studies in later life. It cites Cato at eighty studying Greek, Socrates learning instruments in old age, Pultareh studying Latin around seventy to eighty, Dr Johnson studying late, and others like Homer translator Ovilby not knowing Latin or Greek until after fifty. It mentions Franklin and Dante in similar terms and concludes with Sir Henry Spelman delaying science until fifty to sixty, later becoming a learned antiquarian and lawyer.
A garbled adage urges young farmers to study thoroughly before investing in new tools or schemes. The fragmented text hints at warnings about traveling salesmen peddling unproven measures and emphasizes avoiding loss from flashy promises and worthless products.
Readable text shows partial phrases about rent matters and a date. The fragmentary lines mention a mast and a downed item but lack clear actions, places, or names. Unable to determine a definite event. summarizes to a vague rental note with missing details.
A reflective piece from the Church Union on how affection endures beyond place. It argues that true hearts bind people more enduringly than houses, and that memories and love persist through earthly changes, promising a celestial, unchanging home for the purified heart.
A reflective meditation on living in hearts rather than houses. The piece laments worldly changes yet asserts that true home endures where hearts remember. Returning to childhood homes evokes joyful recall, the bond of love persists beyond death, and a celestial home awaits.
A Vermonter at a large October meeting in a local institute discusses supporting President Hayes administration. He notes Evarts will attend and claims Evarts has a Windsor farm, adding anticipation as Evarts is introduced on stage amid talk and telephones spreading the news.
A jumble of short items covers health cautions and curiosities, inclining toward a diphtheria anecdote, a choked death from a rope incident, a London carriage trade note, a Kentucky horse export, and a Baltimore physician’s fatal diphtheria case. Also mentions a bridge story, a nurse’s club, and Texas wealth remark.
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