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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1887
Page
1
A nostalgic Keeler poem from Good Housekeeping describes a warm old-fashioned kitchen scene. The speaker fondly recalls kettles, pies, and a sweet maid, imagining dinner as a divine feast and admiring the kitchen’s homely charm and aromas.
Letty Whittaker befriends Raymond Gibson as her piano pupil then, amid rain and social nerves, discovers his attraction. He confesses love after a piano mishap and asks about their future, dreaming of duets and a shared life with Letty while their families watch. The story blends courtship with music teaching.
A Washington Capital reader recounts a tale of a servant who treated Sundays like any day leading to the narrator's exodus from church. The anecdote recalls a neighbor who was a fervent member who burned a dog, sparking the narrator's lasting aversion to church over twenty years.
F C Coburn argues that bran fed to horses keeps them from becoming constipated on dry feed and grain. He cites cost effectiveness and value, noting it is especially beneficial during spring coat changes and suggests bran is a favorable option for feeding horses at any time.
Snifkins thanks Swigane for a rendition he praised as splendid and loud. Swiggins notes compliment for the piece while Snifkins complains Coldcash cannot hear due to the volume in the corner.
Jane Meade Welch surveys Niagara's evolving bond with the river and lands, envisioning an International Park from Buffalo to Youngstown and extending to Queenston. The piece highlights Lewiston Ridge views, Brock’s Farm, Fort Niagara, and Newark, praising the river’s threefold charm for artist historian and scientist.
A Boston capitalist noted for real estate and merchant activity backs a forgiving approach to clerical errors. A frightened bank cashier reports a clerk’s mistake placed in the protested box, and Mr. Millions advises against discharging him. The mentor’s memory of his own errors leads to a firm stance: mercy fosters diligence, and business ties endure.
The Argonaut details a strange plant called a cryptgramic truffle found from two inches to two feet underground. It has no roots stems or leaves, varies in color from light brown to black, and ranges from the size of a filbert to a large duck’s egg weighing two ounces to four pounds. Its surface is knotty with a serpentine vein network and it appears unattached in its native state.
In Flo region, researchers cultivate figs reaching about nine inches in circumference. The advance signals potential for larger varieties and local agricultural experimentation. Officials note careful observation of growth factors and climate suitability.
The introduction to Edward Atkinson’s Century essay argues that falling prices since 1873 accompanied rising wages, suggesting that lower profits and prices signal overall progress from poverty to welfare. It questions who gains and who loses, and redefines the value of a day’s labor in essential goods.
William Coppinger, Liberia consul general, discusses immigrant success and failures, the ongoing exodus from Kansas, and the colonization society’s work. He notes multiple autumn shipments, funding challenges, and homes for about twenty thousand and rising, with Africans adopting schooling and English on the West Coast.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt outlines a step by step method to learn swimming starting with ducking under water for breath control. It guides practicing flotation on the bottom, then pulling toward shore rope in hand, testing balance, and finally breathing through the nose while hauling ashore. It notes persistence may lead to mastery of the most approved stroke.
Charles Frederick Holder notes that large extinct birds such as the great auk and Labrador duck vanished due to hunting and habitat loss. He cites the 1844 extinction of the great auk on Funglasker Island off Iceland, threats to Faroe Islands rookeries, and a Maine Maine coast fossil record. He also mentions the dodo in Mauritius and the notornis in New Zealand, with buffalo nearly disappearing from the American West.
A Conway Michigan rooster showed physical and moral courage by finishing a sick hen’s nest and hatching fifteen chicks. He later defended the brood from a hawk, swooping in, grabbing the hawk, and driving it off with his bill spurs and wings until help arrived.
A Sioux Falls resident refuses a tramp a simple breakfast, insisting on twenty sticks of wood instead of ten. The exchange escalates with threats of force and alarms of police, reflecting a sharp demand for meals amid harsh conditions reported by Dakota Bell.
Scattered items note electricity from potato bugs for buses in Britain, opium users in Sacramento, corset history, swallow-tail statues in Richmond, and a wide range of curiosities. It reports on imports, wealth, weathered trades, and notable figures from New York to Norway with brief, non-graphic descriptions of each item.
Gordon Cumming used a vivid simile describing Africa as a forest of fish hooks with occasional patches of penknives, reflecting his cautious, perilous view of exploration and encounter.
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