15 Aug 1872
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Newspaper
Waynesboro Village Record
Location
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1872
Page
1
A poem reflecting on youth and aging, urging acceptance of duty and finding joy in life. The speaker questions whether beauty and nature move the soul while urging hope through love and right guided by a trope toward a brighter future with loved ones.
Poem warns couples to stay united against sly temptations and sharp words. It contrasts serene love with bitterness and urges mutual forbearance. The verse emphasizes enduring partnership as sun or cloud, praising two hearts fused in love.
The Green Mountain man Sam Varney sells his unlikely racehorse in Kingston Jamaica after entering him in a race with heavy odds. He wins big, taking five hundred doubloons and a ten thousand dollar planter’s check, then sells the horse for two thousand dollars plus the prize, earning respect from the crew and returning to marry in Vermont.
An Elmira area tale recounts a late night prank at a female college where a basket misrouted a student and the principal was saved from harm by a cunning student and an oath to keep the incident secret. The tale ends with the professor recounting the absurd episode and reflecting on virtue and courage.
The essay urges calm, orderly domestic life and mutual forbearance, arguing that social courtesies belong at home as in neighbors' houses. It warns against temper, extols hopeful affection, and notes how unkindness wounds loved ones, while citing cautionary tales and proverbs about marriage and character.
A physician urges rigorous hygiene to combat typhoid fever, blaming excrement contamination for infections. He promotes fresh earth and copper as disinfectants, warns against surface water, and advises daily airing and laundry changes to prevent deadly sewer emanations.
A long, rambling tale describes a calf dispute between a New York butcher and an Olean dealer settled by a German speaker. The piece blends a legal anecdote with moral sayings on flies, adversity, and truth, concluding with reflective maxims on life and poetry.
A collection of jokes and anecdotes with ethnic and regional quips, humorous misreadings, and tall tales. It includes moon jokes about milk, tailor lovers, a street door requiring answers, and a parade of eccentric dialects and misheard phrases. References span Memphis baptism yells, Kentucky breach trials, and Alabama laziness, with scattered lighthearted wordplay.
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