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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1889
Page
4
Poem fragment by Harriet Prescott Spofford questions a bird’s spring origin and the rustle of faint bells signaling a romance gone awry. The lines evoke seasonal change and mournful longing through literary imagery.
In the library Daisy Clyburne questions her father Silas as a stranger named Osborne Palmer stays close to Mr. Winchell. Daisy reveals Palmer loves Bertha Jenness, while Silas schemes to trap Ol bed with a plan that backfires as Daisy reveals she truly loves Palmer and plans to wed. Lights fade on a family tangled in power money and romance.
A Brooklyn man who advertised for a wife received 230 answers in a curious ancient form discussion. The note references Anc.7 as the old Roman form of a title or practice, with Harper's being cited as the source.
An Omaha lumber merchant Homer N Coit uses a forged check scheme to imitate Safron's client. after a week of margin tactics and large cash withdrawals he tries to pass a bogus forty thousand dollar check via Safron's bank. The ruse is foiled when a bank teller notices discrepancies and Coit is revealed as the forger Coyote Jim, a recent Western convict.
During travels in the Danubian region Skobeleff met an English Quaker lady who lectured him on war's sinfulness. He admired Quaker fidelity yet held harsh views on peace based on Asia's wartime lessons. He recounted killing tens of thousands to deter further conflict, illustrating war's brutalizing power despite occasional humane sentiments.
A verse excerpt from Rawborn Gove Tenney in Outing describes a coastal scene with cliffs, headlands, pines, and sea birds. It frames a mystic mood as the sunset fades, night winds moan, and a reverie centers on a mistress and dream.
In northern India near Bsanares a man wolf menaces a village after abducting children. A reframed hunt uses a trap and rope to capture the creature, revealed as a cousin of a local villager who killed a brother years earlier. After days of confinement, the captive is observed to be a humanlike beast with a squinting gaze, and the hunt continues as villagers fear further attacks.
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