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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1887
Page
2
A fragmented poem and quip mix from Arkansaw Traveler and Drake's Magazine depart into a whimsically confused scene. The speaker frets about Serfrony Jones visiting the farm with her children and a French maid, while a contrasting verse pairs a romance about a leather trader’s son with a coy line about wholesale love.
A nostalgic voice recalls being stolen young and years of sorrow followed by acts of kindness. The speaker promises to continue aiding others while a pen remains in use, reviving a once shared tradition.
A playful verse recounts a winding tale of a cuff misplaced during a couple’s stroll and later recovered. It shifts to a Chicago Tribune poem titled A Declaration Spoilt where a man professes love and marriage, only to be met with a sharp, witty reply from Dalesa.
A Detroit Free Press item presents a lyrical lament of longing as night falls. The speaker misses a departed beloved, expressing sorrow, repeated attempts to woo back, and waking to absence at dawn. The piece blends personal grief with poetic phrasing in a newspaper vignette style.
A fragmented poem about love in a woodland bower and hornets nesting mixed with a sensational blurb on Prof Baldwin the balloon jumper at Quincy TL. The excerpt mentions a brave aeronaut who leaped from a balloon and landed safely after a parachute deployed, with a vow not to repeat the stunt.
Rome Cor. Paris Register details how Pope Pius IX transformed the Turkish sultans diamond studded saddle into a matching blue enamel chalice. The tiara cost about 500000 francs and the saddle hung unused until the dogma proclamation. The chalice featured a cross of diamonds on azure enamel and impressed church journals with its beauty.
A column contrasts physical malaria with a so called moral malaria found in unhealthy households. It links demonic beliefs in China and Cherokee traditions to explain disease and suggests modern sanitation cures only physical illness. It urges families to inspect and cleanse spiritual climate at home to foster healthful character in children.
A scattered digest recounts curious natural observations from a South observer on alligators and trout, a Dutch belted cattle breed from Holland, violin makers, a German pastry maker to the sultan, a trained dog at market, and Continental Congress movements. It also notes feather myths, Native beliefs about plumes, Ottoman silk roads, and California vineyards.
A Chicago Citizen report praises Volapuk, a new written language by Rev Father Schleyer, claiming it can be learned in one tenth the time of national languages. It notes its regularity, lack of idioms, and roots largely from English and Irish, with early adoption across Europe and interest from linguists like Charles J. Sprague in New York.
A social custom in Singapore features a canoe chase where a suitor pursues a damsel across a stream. If he overtakes her she becomes his wife. if not, the match ends. The ritual notes the maiden's strength and warmth, and a circle ceremony may follow near a stream with a waistband and a test around the circle.
A Fort Keogh correspondent notes the American mountain lion rivals the grizzly in power. An incident in Dry Gulch features a lion leaping twelve feet to seize a dog, then escaping in pursuit of prey. Hunters recount lions dragging off cattle carcasses, leaping eighteen feet, and displaying formidable stamina and stealth in Montana terrain.
A Boston city official, new to yachting, buys a catboat and on a Sunday trials coastal exploration alone. While tying to a buoy he drifts away, loses the painter, and clings to the buoy as wind and waves batter him. A police launch spots the catboat in tow and rescues the man, who is saved but exhausted.
A Philadelphia Record note recalls Major Perley Poore owning a Massachusetts Indian Hill farm that yielded two hundred tons of hay decades past. He never sold any, feeding it to white cattle that died on his hands, while his latch-string remained out. In Sumter County Georgia, 108 year old Harry Reese died after a long war tale. He predicted his own death after a hearty supper saying he would answer the final call in heaven.
Kingston man with a speech impediment becomes the target of a prank when a stranger arrives claiming to cure stuttering. The visit unfolds with the faux authority and a guarded reaction revealing the townsfolk’s sensitivity to the condition.
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