27 Oct 1853
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1853
Page
1
Lucy Grey tells her husband after nearly a year apart that she must visit her parents. They married four to five years ago and have never been separated for a day before, prompting his teasing remark about home.
The passage recounts Lucy's emotional visit to her parents and reunion with husband Henry Grey and child, plus a long anecdote of an Englishman and a Yankee comparing rail travel speeds and signaling methods. It contrasts family warmth with humorous travel lore and railway feats.
A prophetic preacher urges contemplation of mortality and eternal judgment. He warns that manhood age and the dying bed await all, promising a solemn sentence that fixes souls for eternity and urges immediate, serious reflection before the hereafter.
A Washington telegraph unveils the Carculatina machine by Mr. Fuller now in the city. Famed for rapid, precise business calculations, it handles interest rates, time periods, and day counts with a built in time telegraph. It’s praised by London bankers and widely bought by departments and merchants for quick answers.
An 18th century guidance explains proper spectacle wear to maximize clarity. It advises mounting the frame midway between the scalp and ear so lenses sit close to the eyes and parallel to the paper. It warns that misaligned positions distort the image and editors recommend balanced temple placement for steady vision.
A reflective essay urges families to practice everyday politeness at home. It contrasts spouses and children with guests, arguing sincere thanks and gentle words foster affection and order. The piece promotes courtesy as the seed of well raised, considerate people.
A dense meditation on poetry as universal spirit present in love, memory, glory, nature, and the heavens. It asserts poetry animates man and the world from dawn to dusk, in wind, rain, thunder, rivers, forests, skies, mountains, oceans, and seasons, guiding spirit and cadence.
A Maine Law meeting produced a headline of accidents after a cannon misfire maimed two men. William Hoxworth suffered a severe facial injury and possible eye loss, while Lehman Seedle saw his arm amputated after a third discharge. Other injuries included a horse kick and a tree fall.
During the nineteen weeks ending October 2, New Orleans recorded ten thousand sixty interments with eight thousand one hundred forty three deaths from yellow fever. Our latest reports describe brighter signs as trade resumes, vessels arrive, and fears of further ravages ease.
The readable parts show a fragmentary statement about language and meaning comparing squinting or squeezing to Moses and ardent temperament. No clear event person or organization is identifiable.
Texas shows growing trade from Guadaloupe river to Pensacola with corn. Wheat farming expands in Tarrant county while lumber mills rise in the south east. Iron ore abundant in north east counties. A railroad journal to be published in Marshall. Governor Pease and Lieutenant Governor Dixon. Temperance convention planned in Austin. Book trade expected to rise with Galveston Houston and Indiapolo listed as good book markets. Oranges and pineapples prosper in southern Texas. Population around 400000 whites and blacks.
A New York Tribune editorial likens a social blaze to a domestic fire started by alcohol and neglect. It urges readers to seek the source in the bar and grocery circuits, then vote to extinguish the flame at the ballot box, one drop one vote.
A New York correspondent describes astonishing urban rents. A basement room on Wall Street earns $6000 yearly, a 25 by 75 foot lot on Broadway near Fulton at $14 500 yearly for 21 years, and a Broadway building near Trinity Church Yard yields $60 000 per year. One resident notes hotels and stores encroaching, with offers of $10 000 annually for his own house.
The Cuban Government grants Samuel A Kennedy Don Francesco Noy and Don Philipe Neiney a thirteen year privilege for a submarine telegraph from Cuba to the United States. Route length is 122 miles with 56 miles of cable required. On Wednesday the Whigs met in Trenton and chose Joel Haywood of Ocean County as governor candidate, a Temperance reform advocate and former state legislator.
The Tecumseh scene shows the chief scornfully refusing a white father and declaring the sun as his father and the earth as his mother. He lies on the ground insisting he will rest only on the earth.
Quote attributed to Johnson on human craving, noting that once needs are met people seek new desires and artificial wants. The line reflects a critique of consumerism and philosophical view of human motivation. It situates desire as a perpetual driver beyond basic necessity.
The colored men of Illinois hold a state convention in Chicago to decide their proper action under a recently enacted law that forces them to either depart the state or face sale.
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