03 Aug 1865
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1865
Page
1
A Christmas party ends in tragedy as Willie, beloved by a mother and father, vanishes from a study and is found drowned in the Black Pool after a youth’s dreamlike ascent. The family endures grief as Willie recites Latin and dies with his mother holding him.
Having recently received a new supply of job materials, The Republican Office offers printing in a style equal to those found in Ohio cities, promising improved quality and efficiency for local orders.
An aged narrator recalls a Christmas Eve from 1791 at the Vicarage, where Emily’s beauty and a family tragedy unfold. He recalls his father stern in the study, Willie’s outbursts, and a village gathering of Squire Harcourt’s children and Vernon sisters as snow falls and memories bloom.
A weeklies writer argues that ancient Germans banned early marriages and cites Lycurgus and Dr Johnson. He claims women should marry after age twenty one and men after twenty eight, with a seven year sex difference. Early unions allegedly cause premature bodily decay and health decline.
Dr. Holland laments silent kindness and hidden love within the Juastaoin family. He contrasts warmth from stove fuel with cold homes and unseen fuel piles on a hill. Without spoken care, love and comfort fade, making homes feel cold even in summer, as envy for a dog’s simple ownership arises.
A long note details Civil War bounty laws including $100 for most soldiers, $25 advances, and conditions for reenlistment and death benefits. It also discusses Mormon polygamy's social effects, female hardship, lack of free schools, and the push for reform, with examples from Camp Douglas and personal anecdotes.
Dr Dio Lewis cites sunshine as vital for vigor and health, recounting a London clinic where patients stripped to expose every body part to sun rays. He contrasts light with seclusion, noting reforms like a glass roof and sixteen sunlit rooms that revived many who seemed near death.
A list of practical warnings and tips from Dr Hall's Journal of Health covers daily routines safety and self control. It warns against riding with limbs outside vehicles steps for getting up in the morning avoiding rushed street crossings and methods to curb nightly wakefulness while stressing regular meals sleep and frugal living.
A physician suspects hay theft and traps a thief by extinguishing a lantern and setting the hay alight. The thief confesses fearing divine wrath, and the doctor forgives him after the incident, keeping the matter secret within the household.
Pane journals condemn the Mazeppa fashion now in Paris. The Siecle says women’s dress is so scant it’s hardly worth discussing as balls become hot and thin gowns appear like South American attire. Venut of Monde suggests queens would face police and court censure for such ball costumes.
A collage of brief items notes a bank dispute, vast abandoned Virginia lands, future rail links in the South, a Canadian axe murder, a Middletown elopement returning married, Empress Eugenie’s bonnet, noble parks, a kerosene lamp fatality in Westfield, moonlit weather quip, and a Missouri incident where women whipped a man for improper conduct.
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