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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1885
Page
1
The speaker reflects on a spring day as sparrows recall a forgotten event. Birds pass, chimes ring, and maple buds hint at renewal. Nostalgia deepens as the narrator, aging, is haunted by the sounds of sparrows and the season’s shifting shadows.
Ed Mund Alton recalls a lively trio of pages in the U S Senate era, led by a bold heavy villain performer who disrupted sessions with plays and sword plays. Capt. Bassett disciplined mischief with peppermint lozenges while pages parodied debates and roamed the halls amid presidents and grimy marble rooms. Garland and Brewster contrasted in dress and style as they navigated long service, friendships, and public life in Washington.
The Denver News notes a social gathering at Deer Trail, a cattle and sheep shipping hub fifty-five miles east of Denver. Rep Hodge hosted an event drawing over a hundred ranchers and guests. Attendees displayed refined manners, dress, and culture, challenging stereotypes about rural Colorado society. The reception was held in the village school building near Finley’s Deer Hotel.
The article surveys horse family factions with donkeys and zebras, noting tail feathering as the key distinction. It describes Prievalsky's horse as intermediate, the cave man’s horse, and a quaternary epoch horse, then shifts to reflections on nothingness, negation, and the value of literature and newspapers in modern times.
A Hillsburg Chronicle fragment recounts Tartars famed long curved cimetar blades. It tells of Robo the mogul’s execution, where a swift strike nearly beheaded him but kept his head by balance. The tale ends noting such scraps of history are often overlooked.
Dr Scudberry of the US Navy and his wife, an Oakland woman, quarrel over medical beliefs after his Asiatic squadron service. A scene at a drug store ends with the crowd arrested as a divorce suit is set for fall term. The item also mentions bird and animal instincts with unrelated details from Fortnightly Review.
In Commander Schley’s new volume Lieutenant Greely is reported as the first to hear a steam whistle from a distant Thetis. The party initially dismisses the sound as wind. A tense moment follows as Greely, weakening, whispers that men are dying and recalls doing what he could to beat the record.
An afternoon incident reports a colored man carrying a two foot square box up to the White House portico. The box bore the inscription Grover Cleveland President of the United States on one side and From the Fort Worth Camp Fort Worth Tex on the other, with uneven text around the edges.
The New Orleans Picayune quotes that a true work of genius cannot be bought or sold like boots or flour. It resembles love and hope, things lost and not restored by money, beyond price or order.
The record shows restitution tied to public service and emphasizes fear avoidance as a key motive. It notes the time of service and positions this as central to the case, with attention to the conduct surrounding the act and its implications for the involved parties.
An 1865 incident on Illinois Street near the Bates house features Chancellor Hugh O Neal confronting James B. Clay in a saloon crowd. Charles W. Hall introduces O Neal to Henry Clay’s son, sparking a sharp retort from O Neal that Prentice called intensely caustic. O Neal remained described as sincere and opposed to shams to his dying day.
A notorious thug chief Feringhea was arrested in Sangir in 1830. He claimed to have slain many travelers. at three sites ground was dug up and skeletons found as he described. The piece notes large Thug activity historically, with thousands murdered yearly and many hanged in Bombay, Madras, and Bengal, and reflects on lingering danger in remote Indian regions.
The Leech is more common abroad, especially in France and Spain, where suppliers stock hundreds. Since Count Cavour's death in 1870 the practice has waned in Europe, with poultices and fomentations replacing leeches. While less popular, leeches offer faster relief in injuries like black eyes or swollen knees, drawing swift results for time driven patients and those seeking quick fixes before matches.
Ammoniated baking powders using carbonate of ammonia are hailed by physicians as superior leavening. Prof Hassel of London endorses its volatility, noting heat converts it fully to leavening gas, raising bread and dissipating gas-producing ingredients. Other alkalies may remain unwholesome in the finished loaf. The carbonate cannot replace cream of tartar.
A Philadelphia cigar dealer reports no drop in sales after news of General Grant's illness. He notes few customers truly quit and cites Delmonico as a counterexample, insisting smoking did not cause Grant's death and that sales will not fall despite doctors linking smoking to cancer.
A fragment suggests debate over stage morality and a cook’s social status as an audience member questions whether a cook can possess decent character. The dialogue hints at concerns about propriety and whether workers’ roles affect moral judgments in theater.
A collage of statistics and anecdotes covers topics from a bull et travel time to mail volumes and insect refuges. It notes industry shifts, such as straw paper envelopes and pine tree insect habitats, with scattered society snippets, prices, and odd facts.
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