11 Jul 1857
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1857
Page
1
Poetic lines praise idleness and wealth resting, then celebrate the bold air and wild rising hills. The speaker exults in the freedom of mountainous scenery and the cheer of highland landscapes with repeated exclamations.
In this Home Magazine tale Ruth Maltby faces pressure from her father over a forbidden betrothal to Morgan Steele. Ruth resolves to stay with her father, Morgan departs and later returns to marry another Englishwoman. Years pass as Ruth endures sorrow before news reveals Morgan’s marriage and Ruth’s quiet endurance turns to peace through enduring faith.
The Bardstown Gazette urges readers to cherish a sister with holy friendship. If no sister exists, the paper suggests loving someone else’s sister as a moral guideline.
A minister misreads a christening certificate prompting a verbal clash as a mother protests that the count is only eleven, not thirty, revealing a humorous mix up during the ceremony.
Fricurenny Powr N P Willis reports a spectral encounter at Idlewild. He awoke to a moving human shaped figure that swelled and raised its arms, until he realized it was his own silk shirt inflated by warm air from a furnace vent. The shirt’s gas inflation explains the fright and apparition.
A newly married couple in a distant eastern town lie in bed during a fierce thunder storm. A vivid lightning flash and a deafening crash alarm them, and the husband Jonathan urges his wife Liz to "hug up to me, let's die like men."
A peasant admits stealing hay from a large neighbor’s stack. When asked how many loads, he replies they will haul it all away with his wife before they stop.
The Salem Leinster notes a 27 year umbrella item and highlights a longer relic. It mentions a Salem gentleman with an umbrella from Liverpool dated 1810, used on all paper occasions for forty seven years and still in good order today.
Mr Dallas the US minister to England ignored Baron Damier the black Haytien ambassador at a reception causing curt remarks among diplomats. In Manchester England LF Rev Dr Kirk notes a cotton spinning exhibit showing cotton's value from crude fiber to a thread capable of circling the globe with a long knot.
A reflective line notes that safe travel comes from guardianship by poverty and direction of love, implying resilience and moral support guiding a journey.
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