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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1883
Page
5
Trains stop at Orrville station with routes going east to Cleveland Akron and Columbus and departures listed for northbound travel toward those destinations. Cited schedules cover Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago lines with stops en route.
A saloon keeper notes editor doubts about diaries authenticity while detailing social costs of alcohol. He recalls wife’s pleas to quit selling drink, women pressing for change, and a child’s injury from a preacher’s boy’s abuse. He cites Bob Ingersoll and the liquor trade’s influence on Sunday leisure.
A letter from Rancho Frown Kansas near Larned Pawnee County dated Feb 11 1883 details the landscape in a sunlit prairie after a blizzard. The writer describes Larned as the county seat with about 1200 people, the Arkansas river, the bridge near sand hills, grazing ranges of buffalo grass and blue stem, sheep operations with 2100 Merino ewes, sorghum and rye feeding, and water wells and fences shaping the ranch. The piece also notes local church and post office activity and closes with a church society obituary notice for Mrs W W Jobson of Wooster Ohio.
A fable recounts asses claiming a water pool as their own and provoking a guardian army of deer sheep goats and other animals to reclaim their birthright. After warnings the peaceful group marches, a dust cloud rises, and when cleared the pool is crowded with everyone but the usurping asses.
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