17 May 1855
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1855
Page
1
The text presents reflective lines about time and meaning, urging action over regret and the steady burden of hours. It contrasts luminous, sacred crowns with careful, deliberate choices and warns against haste in forgetting what matters.
A man encounters a penniless mother and her girl selling matches on a cold Brooklyn night. He learns of their hardship from her tale of whole life struggles from childhood to widowhood, culminating in a call to charity and reflection on wealth, family duty, and moral responsibility. The piece ends with a meditation on wealth’s dangers and the ideal of a humane home.
Parkville Missouri April 23 1855 Gep S Park writes amid threats to his press after its destruction in Kansas Territory. He defends abolitionism accusations as false and rails against secret associations while praising temperance morality and union. He vows to fight for Missouri and the American press even at personal cost.
The piece surveys how ancient Greeks pursued beauty from childhood contests to statue prizes. It celebrates dress, language, and landscape imagery as romantic, oriental, and Olympian in scale, imagining gods and heroic figures atop imagined peaks.
The passage extols ancient Greece as a source of beauty and greatness. It likens its heroes to celestial figures and praises its art, rhetoric, drama, philosophy, and poetry. It compares Greek achievement to lightning and laments mortal turmoil while exalting Greek cultural perfection.
A Philadelphia Inquirer essay extols civility as essential to smooth interaction and moral character. It argues polished manners elevate society, aid ambition, and soften hardships, illustrated by a neighborly act of sharing wheat after prayer. Evangelist.
Obituary notes the death of Seabury Ford at his Burton residence on Tuesday. Ford, a longtime Ohio politician and former Chief Magistrate elected in 1848, earned broad respect for his administration and personal integrity. The piece lauds his public service and Christian character, predicting the loss will be widely mourned.
An elder reflects on a family Thanksgiving to mourn a missing chair at the annual feast. He recalls loved ones lost to death and distance and warns that every family eventually faces absence at the table as time advances. The piece laments aging, memory, and the inevitability of departure.
The Locoforos warn against re electing State officers as candidates. they urge decisive action by the people to oust what they call a reckless and incompetent group. The editorial says reform is long overdue and reserves no mercy for incumbents.
The passage asserts that modern demands call for life education, expressing cautious but committed support for honest and intelligent progress and urging collective effort to ensure success.
A chain of quips contrasts poets and pullets with la ya, Bloomers and brass, tulips and modesty. Mrs Partington fears Californians bleed from new veins in every paper while Dobbs defends the Union, sleeping with the constitution under his pillow.
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