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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1885
Page
3
Fragmented verse by Dre Indian Waider depicts a blood red ring around the moon, a loon’s piping, and an eagle feather woven with tremble. It laments a vanished bond, a dawn departure, and a brutal wind that rips a plains cornfield while mourning a hunted race amid a cold, deadly vigil.
James Carroll, a Civil War veteran, aids a grieving widow at a remote pine graveyard. He helps move stones and learns of her family’s losses from Shiloh to the present. Later he funds her journey to California, and a postscript reveals her grateful son and daughter—united by a stranger’s compassion.
A wealthy New York Life director Edward Martin seeks to end his marriage amid a tale of his wife allegedly marrying for money. She reportedly pursued divorces to claim alimony, having had three prior husbands, and another case recalls similar schemes. The piece suggests Martin could have avoided trouble by researching his spouse’s history.
Readable excerpts discuss slave raids across a Congo basin, 118 villages and 43 districts devastated, 2 300 captives, 2 000 ivory tusks, and profits near 2 percent. Includes travel notes from Manyang and Bolobo, with vivid scenes of markets, chiefs, punishments, and Krupp artillery used against uprisings.
A New York Tribune excerpt records Lieut Davis’s reflections on Army life at West Point and in the cavalry. He argues sons of officers often fail to excel without backing, while sons of engineer officers fare better. He recounts Arizona service describing harsh conditions, water shortages, and rough settlers, noting high officer losses and endurance tests for troops.
In a Peekskill state camp tent Capt. Kennedy recalls Col Wilcox’s 1869 resignation to a new post, the Ninth Regiment’s revival as a skeleton company, and Fisk’s reluctant colonelcy after multiple ballots. Fisk later funded uniforms, paid officers, and donated $10,000 to the regiment before his fatal shooting.
Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune offers 50 000 dollars to found a college at Cedarville Ohio his native town. The article lists the extreme length width area mean depth and elevation for Lake Superior Michigan Huron Erie and Ontario with total areas for the five lakes totaling 90000 square miles.
A New York Sun piece surveys towering gum trees in Australia as the globe’s largest by height, with examples in Western Australia and near Healesville reaching 420 to 480 feet. It contrasts them with Canary Island Dragon’s Blood trees, noting ancient rings, possible ages from two to ten thousand years, and legends of worship and long unchanged form since Columbus’s era.
An 19th century Bloomington through mail item describes suspicious talk about a senator and a local woman. A mule of a report mentions a maid, feared actions, and a dawn newspaper note about outriding Sam Likely Ing’ night, provoking speculation.
The Connecticut River, once navigable for a long stretch, is said to be drying due to forest destruction in its watershed, reducing flow and navigation potential.
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