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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1881
Page
1
A fragmentary verse scene places a young woman beneath an elm in a glade. The speaker imagines a simple woodland resting place without choral or marble tributes, envisioning a quiet, natural burial removed from funeral pageantry. The piece evokes peacefulness and a rejection of ostentation.
In the Wanderer a Nantucket captain's niece Bessie agrees to marry Henry Belton aboard ship. Darkle, rival officer, fatally attacks Belton, but Belton survives after a desperate ice-berg drift. A gale, a rescue, and a frostbound twist lead to a wedding a week later amid wrecked crew.
A humorous essay recounts disputes over early morning crowing and late night music between neighbors Penn and Wapshott in a London suburb. It weaves anecdotes of disrupted studies, Castlereagh lore, and public tolerance, ending with a scene of girls fishing and picnic banter as a sunny day fades.
A humorous description of a group of six women fishing along a river bank. One slips into the water while the others slide down on their hands and toes, then all chase fish with chaotic cheers, dropped poles, and a sunfish’s splash provoking comic chaos among the group.
The drifting in city life described as a class of itinerant people who lack fixed homes. Mostly women in the Bohemian scene move between environments, craving change and varied surroundings rather than stability. The piece notes their restlessness and the social portrait of urban nomads.
A sequence of aphorisms on virtue self discipline gratitude and judgment. Observations include the value of prayer earned before asking blessings, cultivating mind and heart, avoiding false accusations, and measuring character by actions rather than self perception. The collection also notes self preservation as a natural law and warns against disdain for others.
Able, a local Council Bluffs butcher, reported losing 800 in cash to pickpockets amid the crowd at the races held there a few days ago.
Disease comes from a cause and good physicians explain the fault lies with key organs. Kidney-Wort promises to aid the kidneys and digestive system for better health. Try a box or bottle at once for relief.
A Michigan drummer’s sticks trace a lineage from the 1777 Saratoga battlefield through the Revolutionary War era to the Iron Brigade in Washington and the 1864 Civil War, later carried by Col. Morrow’s family and slated for a Southwestern Michigan reunion. The tales branch into beards and church debates, ending with a beard fashion anecdote.
An English traveler reports Williams Patent Fishing Wheel on the Oregon bank a mile below the cascades. Salmon are lured into a sluiceway where a revolving wheel scoops them into tanks then into a pen for canning. Daily canning yields 1,500 to 4,000 adults, with waste of immature fish likely depleting future stocks. Estimates of annual Columbia River salmon cannery value range from 2.5 to 8 million dollars.
An editor ial from the Journal of Commerce tracks evolving shaving trends from 30 years ago to 1851. It notes early public curiosity about facial hair, the rise of mustaches among young men, and employer resistance such as a Pine Street merchant who fired a clerk for a full beard.
The Muscatine Zeitung recounts Kathinka de P. born September 7 1859 as daughter of Count de P. near Warsaw. After bereavement and exile family, she married Victor de F and moved to the United States. In ill fortune they separated and Kathinka and her child journeyed west ending in Davenport and Muscatine. A letter describes her request to send belongings to Russia after her death by suicide in the Mississippi. The report notes a body found near Kroxux and the death of her child remains undiscovered.
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