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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1885
Page
3
A poem by Sarah D. Hobart from The Current extols rising from despair toward strength. It envisions dawn, birds, sunlit days, and inner resolve conquering hardship. The speaker urges a fearless heart to endure chains of pain and seek a triumphant pool of victory.
Mathilde, a poor clerk's wife, borrows jewels for a ball to please status she cannot attain. After losing a real diamond necklace, she and her husband borrow and toil for ten years to replace it with a costly replica. In the end the original was a fake, exposing the peril of vanity and fate.
Brakeman Schultz recalls a Miles City Montana division incident aboard No 3 where about a dozen cowboys in buckskin forced entry during a red signal. They bound passengers, threatened the conductor, tortured a Swede with prongs, and left after a rough roughhouse with heels shot off and feet tormented, all described with grim humor.
The Quiver warns newlyweds to drive gently over rocky years of marriage. The first year brings danger as couples adjust to shared life, temperaments, and sacrifices. Missteps in early days cast shadows on later years, with expectations of youth fading into ordinary realities.
Clarin of Guadalajara reports the June 6 destruction of Cuarenta and San Gabriel in a narrow valley near Lagos after a mountainous thunderstorm. Villagers flooded, homes ruined, hundreds dead or missing, with many survivors homeless and in need as hail and waters swept through the town.
A 14 year old girl in Central Market recounts how she defends herself against a cruel stepfather after her mother remarried. She describes standing up to him by breaking his finger with a club, burning deeds to a farm, and releasing hogs into a water field, then claiming she is "all right." The incident is reported in Detroit Free Press. the piece ends with a strange fragment about a San Diego Chinese man referenced with odd text.
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