26 Feb 1875
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Newspaper
Washington Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1875
Page
1
A local historical inquiry reports a man named Buck who alternated between male and female personas. He dressed as Mrs Buck for part of each day, then returned to masculine roles, with daily routines, interactions, and financial habits reflecting both identities.
In summer 1865 the writer visited Samuel Buck of Conneaut Ohio an elderly man whose extraordinary life story defies standard romance. Witnesses corroborate the remarkable facts now public after Buck’s passing revealing a union of two souls within one body.
An aged man, over seventy, calls Judge Cushing to his death bed to make a will. He cites the judge as the only acquaintance who never spoke ill of Mr Buck. He dies in 1872 on a long-occupied farm. Tradition hints at Pennsylvania origins and a life of quiet routine. The piece ponders if twin souls shared or competed for control in a single body.
A humor piece follows a shabby traveler named Jones who recounts grasshopper devastations in Vermont and Kansas, a couple's charity at a depot, and a spoof Granger initiation with comic pomp. The scene shifts to a sly husband Gammon and wife Mrs G deciphering reports of his Kansas City trip and the train’s late arrival.
Report notes that the magazine Quill gained clandestine entry into a Grange chapter, revealing secretive practices and internal workings. The breach highlights tensions between secrecy and spotlight on fraternal groups.
In South Atchison Mr. Gammon, a model husband, secretly obsesses over Pedro and schemes to enjoy a game without upsetting home life. An old friend, Tom B., invites him to join a small card party revealing his increasingly clever attempts to balance desire and domestic duty.
A Halifax lawyer tests an Indian Simon on receipts and promises payment. Simon explains that without a receipt he cannot enter heaven, insisting he must pay the debt to obtain a gate pass from St Peter, thus forcing the man to produce a proper receipt before passage.
A Rockland County girl recently finished at a fashionable seminary has started a diary. Her younger brother cut out the first entry and it reached print, revealing a night reflection on longing, art, Byron, and a sun crowned youth emerging from distant mountains and valleys.
A quip compares a man climbing Vesuvius to an Irishman seeking his sweetheart hinting at reaching the mouth of the “cratur” in a playful local joke.
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