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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1887
Page
2
An 1,5 person group from Sioux Falls traveled to Spirit Lake on a Sunday excursion. The train halted near Reck Rapids after engine trouble. passengers enjoyed a youth grounds program with games, shell under the coin, and vendor stalls.
An American passenger on a New York Broadway horse car clashed with a Briton over a window shut by a fellow passenger. A bystander brandished 220 pounds and warned the Briton that Americans won’t tolerate insult, then the man reopens the window and proclaims his American identity as the car continues. The exchange ends with mockery and a retreat toward Europe.
Plymouth Hospital Committee reports on various disinfectants tested in sick rooms. Darbys Prophylactic ula Na is deemed shoddy in the recent Typhoid epidemic though some claim it helps stay the spread. Signatories include F. H. Awistroxa and J. A. Ove among others.
The article describes Spanish and Cuban workers resisting wage, pointing to Cuban and Spaniard employers who favor their own, with high priced cigars yielding large per thousand wages. Germans and Boltenvines are noted as other main groups, while unions limit price. It contrasts skilled foreign makers with American workers and claims legacy of cigar making among foreigners.
In a Doylestown law library three lawyers discussed correct phrasing as one admitted to the bar admitted to a habit of saying it wrong. A rhyme was proposed to help memory as they debated the proper form and a stray aside about one boy’s rhyme. The page also notes a testimonial praising Horehound Cream Balm for catarrh and a remark on weekly pay for circulators ranging from twenty to fifty dollars.
A fragmented report recounts Michael H. Phelan in a political portrait born in St. Louis, with long service in state and municipal government. It notes his staunch defense of American fishing and trading rights and cites an eastern paper on Canadian minister Foster and a ministerial countermand of instructions amid tensions over naval seizures.
A historical note on Ceylonese fisher boats and the Singhalese fishing caste. The inland coast is reefed and waves demand constant vigilance, endurance, and muscle from crews. Boats carry eight inches beam and rely on an outrigger for stability, with one man as breem and two man crews managing shifting ballast. The craft are built to ride shallow reefs and breakers, sometimes visible land disappears under green rollers, yet the boats move with a graceful yet hazardous grace from shore to sea.
Henry P Kitfield is noted as the newly appointed general appraiser of the Boston custom house by President Cleveland. The article traces his education at Phillips Academy Andover, Civil War service in a Massachusetts company, disability discharge, and subsequent work in Chicago grain and Boston weather businesses. It highlights his Odd Fellows involvement, Democratic party activity, and long civic engagement, ending with a brief excursion notice to Hicksville events.
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