16 Sep 1875
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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1875
Page
1
The Wakarusa Sun lists its publication as every Thursday at Wakarusa Indiana with editor and proprietor Owen St. Clair MD. The text includes archaic pricing and term notes for coin and column subscriptions, indicating monthly and half year rates.
A lyrical lament describing a moonlit garden scene where a lily, tulip tree, and mournful figures endure a relentless rain. A beloved named Launcelot Vane is echoed in the tulip tree, while Mabel watches the moody sky hoping for her lost lover. The poem ends with rain quenching desire and laying a mournful hush over the landscape.
A willow grown from a twig of the Napoleon Bonaparte grave tree in St Helena is to be planted on the grave at Andrew Johnson's Hill garden. The same twig era will mark Johnson's burial site with a living memorial from the noted tree.
A rich man recalls his rise by the blackberry tale of sticking to one bush. He says patience with one place built trust, character, and fortune, while chasing better shortcuts failed. The story credits his father’s advice and a lifelong motto: stick to your bush.
A Detroit shoe store scene shows a weigh ty woman choosing No 4s but the shoemaker misleads her into leaving with a 7s fitting. She charms him with a wry remark about aristocratic fashion and exits claiming the fit was the easiest ever.
The Welland Canal stretch, twenty eight miles long, will gain an enlarged channel of one hundred ninety feet in width and fourteen feet deep. The improved waterway will allow the largest propellers to load at Chicago Milwaukee Detroit and sail to Liverpool. It may rival the Erie canal for western produce and challenge New York and Boston with Montreal and Quebec as competitors.
The article details the Girard estate's Philadelphia assets, coal lands, and Kentucky holdings totaling thousands of acres. It notes 550 orphans supported, large building investments, and plans to expand facilities while preserving the estate's land from further encroachment. It cites a Philadelphia gross rent of 390 000 dollars and taxes of 78 000 dollars, plus a 535 000 dollar fund for eastern city improvements.
A Gonzales girl answers a young man by declining his company citing avoidance of evil. She says men who frequent saloons or billiard halls are unfit for a young lady and hopes he will not ask her to humble herself to such companionship.
A Cleveland to Norwalk train tale follows a man who befriends a lone woman, only to be confronted at Norwalk by his wife in a dramatic revelation. The incident unfolds with tense dialogue as the couple confronts infidelity on the dark ride home.
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