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Newspaper
Columbus Enquirer Sun
Location
Columbus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1888
Page
3
A Samoa interview portrays Faapee the famed dancer and her exile tied to dancing on an American ship. It describes Samoan society, gender roles, rituals, music, and dances such as the Seava, plus poverty avoidance and reluctance to labor. The consul laments colonial wrongs and hopes for Samoan freedom.
A physician in Jacksonville meets an old man named Reuben White sitting on a log near town. The man sings about faith and defends his choice to sing despite yellow fever in the air and his wife’s burial yesterday. He refuses work while the country sends food, insisting he belongs to God and will work only if the Lord directs.
A report recalls an episode from the era of the Halcyon Days involving the revered Grand Old Man. The piece notes courtly events and public attention during that period, with emphasis on notable figures and the social atmosphere surrounding the incident.
The San Francisco Examiner recounts a striking story from Chief Engineer Mathews on Pacific steamers about wartime recruitment in Salvador and Costa Rica. It details how Costa Rican authorities allegedly drafted natives, paid rope-based bounties, and shipped soldiers to Zaldivar, plus the rise of John Magee in Guatemala with docks, taxes, and vast wealth, all set against a backdrop of colonial labor and native exploitation.
Rev Dr J Edmund Cox recalls a curious event from fifty to sixty years ago. In a Norfolk rookery near Hogland a jury of rooks attacked a single offender, tearing the bird apart while the rest of the colony erupted in alarm. The scene ends with the nest being scattered by deputized rooks.
An elderly medical advertisement promotes lemon drink claimed to cure biliousness constipation indigestion and numerous skin and blood conditions. It touts 50 cents and 71 bottle pricing with Dr H Mozley of Atlanta as the manufacturer and urges use for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis pneumonia laryngitis consumption and catarrh. The text emphasizes liver stomach and kidney disorders and lists several remedies as Lemon Hot Drops for various ailments.
The article discusses Crookes and Barwin experimenting with mediums, noting a gold medal for Crookes. It highlights a May 7 1874 letter from Alfred Tennyson in which he describes a walking trance and the mind’s persistence after death. It connects these views to In Memoriam and suggests Tennyson may be his own medium.
Morris R. Locke, formerly a railroad contractor,insists John W Young controls a promising 36 mile narrow gauge line from Sugar House through Parley's canyon to Park City and beyond. The project links Salt Lake with key mines and quarries, promises coal and silver ore traffic, and has 12 million in Youngs stock with early equipment in place.
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