16 Dec 1875
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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1875
Page
1
The Wakarusa Suns published every Thursday from Wakarusa Indiana with Owen St. Clair as editor and proprietor. The snippet notes Elkhart 0 Minnesota? appears in the masthead.
The poem describes a winter night by the sea with a bright moon and a gray owlet hooting from the woods. A speaker rests beside the woods and hears moans and groans from a distant wheel and mill while a spirit shines brighter than moonlight beside the writer in a trance.
A cautious father Mr Morris advises a suitor against marrying his daughter by listing exaggerated, comical complaints about married life. The young man, overwhelmed by the warnings and fear of a controlling in law, escapes to the street, deciding not to pursue the match.
A Danbury district tale recounts a cunning traveling agent selling a dubious dress fastener for $1. He woos women with ridiculous demonstrations, enlisting neighbors and exhausting his pitch until a resentful husband revenges by forcing the crowd to hear the tale again. The coroner rules circumlocution as the cause of death.
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