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20 Jun 1888
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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1888
Page
1
Advertisers are listed for a one column rate chart covering twelve months. The notice outlines rates and terms for display space and formatting.
A Boston Daily Advertiser piece reflects on turning forty with thoughts on aging. It contrasts youth and maturity through lines about beard grayness, family, and changing ambitions.
The account describes the strict Russian press censorship in St Petersburg, where articles are blurred or torn out, and editors control whether content is published. It contrasts the confined readership with a mass of illiterate drivers and a largely uneducated populace, noting vast social and educational gaps.
Two captains at the Continental hotel traded fanciful tales of a supposed iron steamboat bound from the lower lakes to Duluth that struck a rock and sprang a leak. Pumps fought the flood as the vessel pressed on, with the story fading into embellishment.
The passage recounts Wash Connor, partner of Jay Gould, using a London trip to present a Bank of England note as a promissory note. Bank clerks challenge him with rules, he feigns ignorance, and the story ends with him indorsing the note and obtaining gold amid a dramatic scene. The piece ties in anecdotes of vessels and fools’ gold.
The Savannah News notes Laurel View in Liberty County once grand among Southern plantations is now abandoned and divided into small farms. Once home to John Elou and linked to John Elliott, its 2,800 acres were sold to a colored buyer for 2,509 amid decline in the era after emancipation.
A collection of humor and puns from multiple papers. Jokes touch on money talk versus silence, phonetic trains, English speaking races, fashion weddings, misused phrases, and light city life. Includes quips about Jay Gould, balloon passengers, and a Tennessee arrest note.
A brief dialogue note from the Omaha World records a New York girl describing Ellen Terry’s daughter as sharp and reserved, with a quip about never speaking unless purchasing something. The exchange highlights perceptions of theater figures during a visiting period.
A man grips a thin worn hand and speaks with husky emotion about a bitter life. The scene centers on past desolation and uncertain future as a misty reaction overtakes him while Sylvester and others watch a bobtail ush and 17 centa swept away.
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