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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1853
Page
1
Poem reflects longing for virtue and harmony as the speaker cites desires for honest motives, faithful marriages, modest living, and universal happiness. The verses imagine a world where pious teaching guides actions and truth, candor, and kindness prevail.
Poem urging guardians to allow children to play freely and eagerly, warning that frightening or curbing their activity harms not just individuals but moral character, and praising active, imaginative life without fear.
A store keeper in a small community faces a conscience crisis after inadvertently taking five cents too much per yard, then a dollar from a customer. He wrestles with restitution, experiences humiliation, and ultimately mails back the improper gain to restore his integrity.
A Swedish visitor recalls Washington Irving as a kind, optimistic host with a lively smile and rare beauty, noting his peaceful Hudson home, warm spirits, and delicate shyness. The account includes a portrait of Irving and reflections on his past love and literary friendships.
The piece praises frugality self denial and prudent income based spending and warns against money worship. It traces fortunes from enterprising individuals who save and innovate to vast wealth and social status while noting the hollow promise of future generations lacking proper enjoyment of wealth.
During a night raid on a Damascus caravan, Abou el Marek of Acre was bound and left at his clan’s tent. His horse Tugk, restrained nearby, slipped its fetters after Abou freed it with his teeth. Tugk reached the Arab camp and delivered the exhausted master to his family before dying of fatigue. The horse’s loyalty became a celebrated tale among Jericho Arabs.
A Chicago Press column denounces land speculation as the West’s worst evil. It laments speculators hoarding uncultivated acres from Illinois to McLean County, noting a man owning 10 000 to 15 000 acres yet living in poverty, as he pursues vast profits while laborers pay the price. The piece condemns speculation’s disruption of progress after the Central Railroad opened land offices.
A hortatory piece exhorts readers to avoid debt as a universal evil. It warns debt shrewdly binds the borrower like a millstone and incubus, eroding health, happiness, and dignity, and urges a life of honest labor and financial independence.
A compact sermon from an eccentric English divine extolls temperance. It warns that intemperance brings domestic misery premature death and infidelity and urges sustaining three companions: wife stomach and conscience. The piece cites Newgate Calendar hospitals lunatic asylums workhouses and personal past sufferings to illustrate its points.
A brief, unclear text fragment mentions a butterfly and pursuit themes with odd phrasing about wetting down quietly. The readable content appears stylistic rather than a complete event or report, leaving interpretation open.
The Maryland election results show Democrats ahead with a 1-4-5-3-6-1 delegate split among John Franklin Henry May Jacob Shower W.T. Hamilton Joshua Vansant and A. R. Sellers. State officers include Governor T Watkins Ligon and Comptroller Ly Pinkney Whyte. Whigs expected to control both legislative branches and secure a U S Senator and State Treasurer. In Baltimore City the Maine Law ticket wins.
A didactic piece urges youths to rely on themselves rather than others, comparing life to paddling a canoe. It warns that dependence leads to wrecks in rapids, while self reliance built on worthy aims and virtuous conduct sustains you. It stresses persistence, resilience, and personal responsibility.
A tale of Bob and his two canine pointers, Nick and the larger fool, as they chase a fox. The dogs quarrel, one runs fox, the other lingers. Bob presses on and asks a wood-chopper if a fox or dog passed by, learning they were sprinting ahead in a tight pursuit.
The Louisville Journal asserts the administration of a short tenure repeatedly dispels accusations by taking decisive actions. It notes moves like removing stations and ads, selling carts, backing out a Pacific railroad project, breaking Dix’s promised France mission, and rewarding New York Barnburners with patronage. The piece mocks the pattern as a habit of “living down” charges.
The house where Benedict Arnold was born has been torn down in the past few days.
A dated fragment attributes a wry Greek line to Themistocles about his family, noting how a boy governs his mother who governs him, reflecting political satire in ancient Athens.
A reflection warns that wealth unused for the benefit of others condemns the owner to miss true happiness in this life and the life to come, arguing egoism cuts off pleasures both here and after.
In Lincoln County Tennessee on the 3d of the month Mrs. Susan wife of Wm C Solomon aged 33 years died. This is the third wife Mr Solomon has lost within the last year.
A cryptic line notes that the snake of gas exists in a finely divided state and is not injurious to the lungs, suggesting a technical description or metaphor without direct health harm.
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