01 Jun 1871
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1871
Page
1
An aged professor remains in his familiar seat after a March recitation as students drift away. Voices recall his long service while fresh students glow with hopeful radiance and the hymn-like farewell lingers in the night.
A young wife pleads for mending a worn coat as a symbol of marital strain. Burton, an earnest businessman, supports his wife yet underestimates her frugality while managing a tidy budget and social expenses. The worn broadcloth coat embodies the couple’s frugal struggle amid domestic duties and growing tensions.
A textile worker Lizzie confronts her husband Frank over fair wages and household duties. She reveals she earns five dollars a day in labor while saving for his twenty dollar a day gain, stressing justice and shared life as they balance work, care for their child Walter, and marital equality. Six years later, Frank honors his vow.
The Golden sige sketches a modern evening party as a better social option than shallow gatherings. A host and hostess replace idle talk with songs recitations and thoughtful entertainment. The piece argues every well family should cultivate a personal theatre or concert room at home.
A gator tale describes the female driving off a male who trespasses near her nest. The male sulks away after thrashings, while the female lays more eggs. Anecdotes cover alligators feasting on eggs, protecting offspring, and interactions with dogs and humans.
The head of the murderer Bullott was examined by a physician. The brain weighed about 59 ounces, larger than average. the heaviest known belonged to Cuvier at around 60 to 64 ounces. Rulloff’s brain showed a large lower portion and a small upper region linked to higher morals. the skull thickness reached near an inch in places. The grave was opened three times post execution by different parties seeking the head. the head was removed prior to burial, plaster impressions were made, and the brain is being hardened for final sectioning.
A passage from Sir Samuel Baker’s Nile volume notes Arab women’s perfumery practices. Women inhale scents from multiple oils, using a charcoal fire under a hut floor to create an air bath that absorbs volatile perfumes, leaving both dress and skin richly scented.
Wednesday night Theodore Lehman, 25, a prisoner in Stark County Jail, hanged himself with a sheet in his cell after attempting to frighten fellow inmate Ballis with a ghost prank. An inquest found death by suicide. Lehman, born in Massachusetts, had recent petty theft charges and had lived in Youngstown area before jail.
A historical column outlines homestead eligibility in Kansas with 160 acres, the value of land near rail lines, water depth prospects, and typical costs for livestock and development. It notes that soldiers have advantages under the Homestead Act and mentions speculative railroad land prices and settlement challenges for new arrivals.
Large numbers of caterpillars along the Memphis and Tennessee railroad line disrupt traffic. Trains are reduced to eight cars and one engine has been stopped twice near Voaconnil Creek Mississippi, as the insects cover tracks and foliage is stripped.
A wagon carrying four hundred pounds of nitro glycerine for Roberts Co exploded five miles from Titusville on the road to Tidioute. Diver Chas Clark and the horse were killed, a barn was demolished, a deep roadway crater formed, and a woman in a distant house was knocked down. Clark had worked for Roberts torpedo for years. his wife and child live in Tidote.
Mr Win M Evarts introduced Win Bryant at the banquet to Baron Gerolt of New York as a great scholar and author. He never forgets what he learned and teaches others what they never knew. He travels poems written 3,000 years ago and has written poems to be translated 3,000 years hence.
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