11 Mar 1875
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1875
Page
1
A dramatic confrontation reveals a forged will tied to Eldridge Parsons and a concealed marriage proposal. The narrator exposes the forged signature, threatening to reveal the truth unless Parsons renounces Julia Parsons and secures a marriage arrangement. Eldridge Parsons flees to Australia after the confrontation and the lovers, George Dickson and Julia, wed soon after.
A solicitor visits London and reunites with George Dickson who confides a case of love thwarted by a father's will. Mr Parsons dies in Hampshire after drafting a will that forces his daughter to marry the nephew, with a forfeiture clause if she refuses.
A fire Monday morning destroyed the roundhouse of the Cincinnati Sandusky and Cleveland and Columbus Spoogfeld railroads east of the city. The blaze, starting about seven, consumed five locomotives and caused an estimated loss of fifty thousand dollars, with fifteen thousand insured. An engineer narrowly escaped by leaping from a window.
Rev WW Englesons delivered a Presbyterian Apple Creek funeral sermon for Mrs. R A Dobbins on Feb 9 1875. He lectured on the resurrected body and glory, citing 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4, praising Mrs. Dobbins for piety and service in the Sabbath School.
Readers note that simple words often defeat top spellers, as comments from the Cleveland Hernin discuss. The piece contrasts easy terms with long complex words and cites a Medina event where a champion faltered on a short word.
The New York World discusses a French professor of comparative physiology proposing corn meal mush as the main diet for consumption. He claims it dissolves tubercules and heals lung sores, but officials doubt the conclusions and warn that prevention and recovery rely on hygiene, not medicine.
A Columbus measure, passed 54 to 82, would require children ages eight to fourteen to attend a common school for twelve weeks annually unless excused by a school board for disability, indigence, or lack of local schooling. It also limits child labor during school time and outlines enforcement and book provision duties.
An old man visits the Detroit and Lansing Railroad ticket window at the Central depot to protest fares. He argues over two dollars and sixty cents, claiming a lifelong Detroit residence and police taxes, and threatens to ride the train away on the platform. The agent insists on the posted fare and schedule. He eventually boards the train after failing to push a discount.
Caliban of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports a Mt Vernon murder tied to the estate of late Deacon John McCormick. The widow, age 67 in Maryland, asserts a dower third after a long separations and two marriages, while a lawyer administrator weighs possible court action amid conflicting narratives.
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