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CHAPTER 2First Light

This is a most peculiar state. Almost invariably, on so-called clear days in July and August out here, an indescribable haze over everything leaves the horizons unaccounted for and the distance a sort of mystery. This, it has always seemed to me, is bound to produce in certain types of mind a kind of unrest. In such light, buzzards hanging high above you or crows flying over the woods are no longer merely the things that they are but become the symbols of a spiritual, if I may use the word, or aesthetic, suggestiveness that is inescapable.…1

FRANKLIN BOOTH, quoted inA Hoosier Holiday,by THEODORE DREISER

In the early morning hours of July 14, 1904, George Greenleaf settled and opened the Terre Haute Morning Star. Medical ...

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