27 Nov 1884
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1884
Page
1
A poetic reflection praising natural beauty. The speaker thanks nature’s bounty from green grass and flowers to birds, bees, warm breeze, cuisine, streams, woodlands, and the great organ’s flood of sound. The tone is thankful and reverent.
Milly Barry and Josie King, coworkers at a New England dry goods emporium, share a close bond until their ten dollar savings vanishes. A jealous doubt arises, but a stranger, Albert Merton, later returns the money he found, revealing the girls’ trust and renewing their friendship. The recovered bill bears the owners’ initials, confirming the rightful claim.
Six months into the studio, sketches of Jesis King's head filled the space as the artist courted her. They agreed to life-long partnership. On the wedding day Milly, the bridesmaid, slipped a ten dollar bill to Josie and whispered to frame it as a reminder that loss became gain.
The Civil Service Commission reports about 110000 federal workers with 96000 subject to removal. Most postmasters and many in Customs and the Treasury face shifts, while competitive positions total about 14000 open to examination. Washington changes may affect higher officials, clerks, and laborers though not all will be removed.
Philadelphia Times reports an elderly customer in a Seventh Street barber shop announcing he will have his beard shaved after twenty four years of growth. The man recalls his 1860 Breckinridge and Douglas loyalty and vows to mail the beard to President Cleveland.
A reader to the Commercial Gazette criticizes Gov Hoadly for urging thanks without naming a recipient. The letter mocks public thanks in stormy terms, questions political motives, and jests about whom to thank for disasters and finances amid Pennsylvania politics.
A Socorro man’s setter named Jack displays remarkable reasoning. At the butcher shop he negotiates a large meat package by aligning it with a fence hole and pulling it through. On another trip he retrieves a dropped peach to replace it in a torn paper sack.
A miscellaneous 19th century page notes a clerk who inflates his chances with Parker's Hair Balsam while describing local crop yields in Massachusetts and New York. It mentions aging concerns, a salary figure, and a sales pitch style for tonics.
A 19th century style text links facial features to love behavior and compatibility. It claims lips, chins, eyes, brows reveal honesty, ardor, or scheming, and prescribes Hand’s Sarsaparilla for catarrh as a constitutional remedy. It cites Hood & Co of Lowell, Mass. as makers.
A veteran note on concise speech criticizes verbose habits and vague talk while a scene in Massillon shows a drunken confrontation as Fred Hose and Fred Paul are shoved by a hand cart, following S. G. Cleveland’s election.
A vintage promotional snippet claims Kidney Wort is superior to diamonds and gold, a powerful tonic that purges poisonous humors from blood, tones the body, and stimulates key organs to healthy action. It asserts many marvelous cures and calls it invaluable for kidney issues and related ailments.
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