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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1884
Page
3
The poem image portrays a dirty black and white dog trotting through streets. Its wary eyes meet passersby as if pleading for mercy. The speaker notes the dog's meek behavior and wistful gaze, suggesting resignation to street life.
Jennie Orson, a tired Wisconsin schoolmistress, dreams of a grand act. When Tod Brown nears the swollen creek, she dives into icy waters to save him, tears flowing as she battles the current. Plucked from drowning, she collapses ashore and is believed dead, but Jack Kelley clings to hope. she awakens in his arms who tells her love brought her back.
E R Powell from Augusta Kansas shares practical farm tips on corn planting from breaking to reploughing, drainage and soil handling, plus feeding hogs and cattle. He discusses manure use, seed storage, insecticides, and equipment choices, stressing proper drainage and ground preparation to avoid costly mistakes.
Frimiép fiso methods for frying and broiling fish with parsley, and a bake filled fish recipe with water, plus beef steak and onions prep. Includes custard, dream cake with layered frosting, New Cake, and Punch Cake methods, with stepwise boiling and baking notes.
A collage of humorous vignettes and exchanges. Quotations about a man with a silk umbrella, a fashionable hat, a courtship turning fraternal, and playful anecdotes from daily life. Rural and city scenes mingle with light satire and puzzle-like wordplay.
Henry C. Pedder praises Booth for enduring sorrows and trials that temper his temperament. The piece compares Booth to Hamlet, noting a pensive sadness that softens pain into artistic merit and moral purification.
A fragment recounts a tall tale where a frog and a toad duel in jumping. The frog fails after a high jump while the toad wins two rounds on a flat stone. A second aside notes a proud man must keep his distance while the dogmatic mindset grows.
A six year old asks about the meaning of man and woman. Parents respond with simple explanations while the mother holds a smarting iron and listens closely.
A fragment notes Augustus Schell, a glee banker and politician, dying soon after four blind girls from New York sang to him. The text reflects on consolation found in a child's earnest hymn and the pure heart behind the voice, contrasting deceit and pretension.
In Detroit a man accuses a boot-black of shortchanging him after paying a dollar for change and losing thirteen cents. The boot-black denies the claim, and the man taunts him about exploiting a poor kid in the hustle.
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