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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1853
Page
1
A solemn poem of a dying mother bidding her husband and child farewell. She asks to lay the babe on her bosom and instructs her husband to love and guide their daughter, imagining angelic evidence of forgiveness and a lasting maternal heritage beyond death. The verse contemplates angels, judgment, and rejoining in heaven.
A wartime era poem from the Warren Mail extols hope through trials at sea and in life. It describes hope as a guiding beam on stormy oceans and a soothing balm for grief, ending with the image of an angel guiding souls beyond death. The piece attributes the composition to Bansont.
The article reports repeated serious incidents at a popular Hippodrome with riders thrown from horses and injuries including a fractured arm and head contusion. It claims officials hush injuries to keep crowds calm and urges the exhibitions end if fatal risks persist. It also notes gossip about a rider, a bachelor named Dabster, and a mil liner sighting.
The piece weighs Webster against Burke, praising Websters mind and restraint while noting Burkes imagination and eloquence. It contrasts their styles, predicts their different realms, and uses vivid similes to mark the legislative scholar against the poetic orator. It ends with a humorous aside about Mugging and a letter.
Miss Emily Teal, from Bergen New Jersey, returns home claiming she was abducted by two men in a carriage toward Newark. She was gagged and blinded, kept in a dark room, and walked home exhausted after Friday’s ordeal. The episode, debated as abduction or mental instability, has stirred strong public concern and calls for punishment of the perpetrators.
The Cleveland Herald laments Mrs Sherman of West Troy who hanged herself on the eleventh, driven insane by spirits and spirit rappings. It condemns spiritualist fervor, warns of lunacy rising, and condemns mourners who weaponize the dead to terrify the living.
A Newport era account details the foundering of the William and Mary off Stirrup Key in the Bahama Islands on May 8. Captain Stenson reports 150 or more perished and over two hundred likely lost, with five boats launched and only a few survivors seen. The event follows earlier rail and hailstorm calamities.
The London correspondent cites Prince Albert correcting the Prince of Wales with scripture and a rod, placing him in a corner after admonitions from Miss Hillyard, then reading Galatians and Proverbs to stress tutelage under governors. The episode is presented as an exemplar Christian method.
A gentleman is approached by a poor loafer asking for charity. The man replies I will remember you next time. The loafer insists I dont credit I deal on the cash principle.
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