Wayne Go Herald Item From Wooster Ohio
In Wooster Ohio the Herald Printing Co publishes notices and brief items under the Herald name.
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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1885
Page
7
In Wooster Ohio the Herald Printing Co publishes notices and brief items under the Herald name.
The speaker sits in a timeless place with conscience as judge. Ghosts of past actions arise, foretelling a grave future and judgment day. The poem ends with a resolve to remember the warning and fear of solitary reckoning. London Spectator.
In Drake's Travelers' Magazine a comic scene unfolds as Mr Spoopendyke rejects his wife’s pie attempt. He imposes his mother’s pie methods with explosive kitchen antics, sabotaging the crust. The couple’s quarrel crescendos with the pie hurled from the window and an eventual retreat from the fiasco.
Living above the foothills in pine forests the shakemakers are a reclusive though jolly group of couples who carve shakes from pine timbers and sell them for 4 to 4 1/2 dollars per thousand. These frontiersmen hunt, work, and spend leisure in the mountains near a country store. The piece also notes General Knox and wife as a notably fat political couple, then gives a flour alum test and ends with the golden rule.
The piece outlines dressfronts and trimming styles using cashmere and plaid fabrics, with two broad pieces forming the skirt and bodice. It notes shirring at the collar and waist, decorative clasps, short paisiers, and a back knot, plus color pairings and material options for children and misses.
The article surveys 19th century clothing trends for children and men, detailing collars, lace, and round necklines. It describes round lace work for girls, turned-down collars for boys under 12, linen bands, and hats such as the cloth cap and Russian cap, plus styles like kilts with short over trousers and sky overcoats. It notes a preference for plain, severe clothing and long coats.
A Washington dispatch reports friends of silver in the House hesitating to commit the administration to a gold biased stance before cabinet formation. The piece argues silver and gold coexistence, cites Treasury and bond history, and warns that stopping silver coinage could trigger price drops, debt burdens, and broader economic contraction.
Col Frederick Grant confirmed General Grant is very ill from a malignant epithelial cancer at the tongue root. Doctors Barker Douglas Sands Merker describe rapid decline, continual pain, and loss of teeth, with nourishment by soft foods and no hopeful recovery.
In Washington Georgia residents claim the town was among the first in the nation to bear the name honoring the United States’ founding leader. The item notes local pride in the association with the title Father of his Country.
General Robert Toomisi is reported ill at his residence in Washington Georgia with family and local medical staff attending him. The notice notes his illness but provides no further medical details or prognosis.
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