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Newspaper
Cuba Pilot
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1888
Page
2
The Boston Advertiser recalls the war's toll citing widowed orphans and the homeless while urging gratitude for those who suffered. It emphasizes not forgetting broken lives and supports the idea of honoring veterans and aiding those in need.
In a social round at Aunt Marys, Miss Iona Ross charms Edward Percy while Miss Clara Dunton plots romantic gain. After a night of music and shifting affections, Percy asks Iona to marry him. she confesses mixed feelings and reveals Duntons scheming, leaving Iona torn between love and duty.
Statistics from Missouri’s local option law show 78 elections since June last year with 153,180 votes cast in counties and cities over 2,500 population. Of these, 72,807 backed sale and 78,317 opposed it, with 22 wet and 89 dry counties, and several towns split.
The Pittsburgh area obituary recalls Jane Grey Swisshelm, famed abolitionist writer and editor, who separated from James Swisshelm in 1857 and died recently. It details her life from romance with Swisshelm to wartime journalism, political influence, and eventual divorce amid domestic strife.
A fragmentary obituary note recalls Jane Grey Swisshelm and her estranged husband. It mentions May 27 1857 journey to St Paul Minnesota with the baby, a farewell on the wharf, and his later death at Swiss Vale near the old farm where she lived as a recluse. The piece centers on personal strife and a long widowhood.
A New Haven correspondent reports beasts from Barnum’s Bridgeport quarters rejoining the exhibition line on ships and steamers. Trainers describe a methodical, risky training regime to subdue lions tigers and other carnivores by drugging and clipping teeth claws, restraining with chains and supports, then parading them with keepers. The piece notes the aim to educate public taste for natural history while cautioning about perceived dangers.
The Spanish Vice-Consul in Algiers claims to have located the cave near the city where Cervantes, once a pirate prisoner, found refuge after an escape attempt. He describes a very small, secure hideaway on a steep mountainside with an inscription planned above the entrance.
A Russian correspondent reports that miles of forest near Vitebek conceal thirty families of men living in shrouded isolation. Inspectors at the new property site discovered dwellings and signs of cultivation with no knowledge of their existence by authorities. They appear to have inhabited the land without paying any tax or deriving benefits from the imperial commonwealth.
A historical piece recounts the failed drive for Canadian annexation by force led by General Montgomery and Colonels Ethan and Seth Warner. It notes harsh winters, retreats, and Warner safeguarding troops, then links to Warner's Log Cabin Remedies with vegetable treatments like Satsaparilla and Hopa and Buch for digestion.
The page includes a variety of notices and adverts such as a last will oath for a senior partner in a Toledo firm, a reward for curing ca tarrh, fires at The Evening Star office in Kansas, cold remedies and tonics, medical testimonials, and several local promotions including carbolic salve, Moxie Nerve Food testing, and a monu ment fund update.
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