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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1882
Page
7
A poem by Celesti A. Winbrow reflects on a baby’s lost portrait stored away in a dusty garret. The speaker imagines future generations discovering the image and mothers recalling unspoken ties between mother love and memory. Time passes yet hope endures, with sentimental longing for recognition.
A dream tale set in Central Africa contrasts a harsh Christmas among cannibals with a rescued traveler’s return to England. A noble explorer endures fever and danger, faces twelve kings, and awakes on the lake with helper arrives bearing plum pudding and turkey, making it his merriest Christmas.
A collage of light anecdotes and quips from Boston Post New York Commercial Philadelphia News Cincinnati Saturday Night and San Francisco Chronicle. Jests range from animal baiting birds to misers preachers and schoolyard pranks with sly punchlines and quaint epitaphs.
Eye witness account describes a dog tied to a dynamite can at a rural railroad station. A boy unleashes the dog while bystanders flee in panic as the can’s lid proves harmless but the crowd disperses in fear. TheLondon Times essay discusses American novelists and Howells impact.
The article explains irrigation and artesian wells turning western grazing plains into arable land. Populations expanding westward, railroads, and planted trees boost rainfall. Denver may gain improvements, and Horace Greeley foresaw windmills dotting the plains. Meteor passage creates luminous gas trails indicating upper air currents.
A new straw lumber process, praised in the American Architect, produces boards from straw fibers using a cement and pressure method. The 32 inch by 12 foot standard boards rival walnut and oak in strength, resist fire and water, and can be finished with varnish or paint. A ton of straw yields about 1 006 feet of boards, with high tensile strength and much quicker production than growth of trees, promising large annual yields per acre.
A Connecticut merchant visiting a New York house for goods on credit is told he paid only 10 cents on the dollar. He retorts he is the town’s sole merchant to pay over six, cites prior protests, and quips about doctors’ warnings and his wife’s business acumen as defenses.
A father urges his son to value honest labor and paid preaching. He contrasts Moody and Ingersoll earning weekly and nightly sums with temperance work, arguing the laborer deserves pay and questions who deserves less for saving souls. He notes the higher cost of vice versus virtue and the responsibility of choosing the good.
The piece notes hoop makers in the country and an alleged machine by Estonians claimed to produce up to 20,090 eight foot hoops in ten hours. It mentions a quarrel between Caprion and Blaser over a bill and a chase over unpaid debts, ending with the editor promising payment at year end.
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