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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1889
Page
8
Fragmented verse evokes a war scarred shore with withered flowers and abandoned towers. Imagery binds sea, wind, and a ghostly presence, hinting at memory and lost lives in a ruined landscape. The speaker questions whether speaking a word can awaken the dead or conjure a past epoch.
Arthur suspects broken oars after a lake trip and Phil’s teasing proves costly as the ache of trust clashes with a joke. Uncle George learns the truth. Phil’s mischief risks the racing team’s chances and teaches a hard lesson about honesty.
A group of boys row to a pavilion by a lake and Phil toys with a gold coin to entertain Arthur. The coin vanishes as Arthur believes it will reappear, triggering a merciless practical joke that leaves the boys short for dinners. The tale ends with Phil’s humiliation as the party feasts on scant funds, recounting Sidney Dare in Golden Days.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a boy on city hall steps calling to excursionists. An old man reacts asking which sort muskrats or common house kind. The boy replies chestnuts and the onlookers deem it fanny as the crowd disperses.
Burlington Free Press reports a lighthearted town exchange about Melville's romantic disappointment. Richford characters speculate on his mood while noting his search for a misplaced pipe.
Arcadia is invoked as a distant idyllic land in Edgar Saltus's lines reprinted in the Pittsburg Bulletin. The piece also reviews Annie Slosson Trumbull's short story Fishin' Jimmy about a White Mountain fisherman whose faith and morals hinge on his love of fishing, ending with a tranquil if tragic flourish as he faces death.
August Melching drowned in Codorus Creek while swimming and his body remained missing until a shirt thrown into the water floated to the scene, sank, and reappeared with the body nearby. Two observers confirmed the incident. The tale bolsters the old notion that a drowned man's clothing will float toward the body. Bashful Originality. A shy 16 year old blushes as a girl compliments his hair, then blurts out I like your hair because it's full of the little jerks.
The Louis Globe-Democrat notes sparrows were less plentiful after a blizzard but surged in 1889. It cites the US agriculture commissioner’s recommendation to poison with wheat soaked in arsenic along highways, a method also common in England, while warning sparrows are a major pest to agriculture despite birds generally aiding farmers.
A clergy man in the St Louis Republic warns against harsh words that leave lasting marks. A lad scratching a pane with a diamond pin inspires the lesson that some actions cannot be erased. Loneliness and sorrow in a person demand sympathy, not coldness, for impressions endure beyond glass.
A Chicago News editor rails against copying Little Lord Fauntleroy's fashion while noting boys refuse long hair hats plumes and silk sashes. The Burlington Free Press recalls an office boy tale of obedience and hierarchy under a stern editor.
A western weekly editor printed a tribute titled A Good Man Gone for a deceased, prominent citizen. After printing and distribution revealed the man was an embezzler, the editor added the word Wrong to the headline in every issued copy.
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