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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1886
Page
8
The poem celebrates delight in love as nature glows with roses and birds sing. A tender speaker greets a beloved, describing bright skies, dew, and fragrant blossoms as the beloved draws near. Dempster Sherman signs the piece, marking authorship.
E J Bidwell recalls a West Point officer’s terrifying night at Bedloe’s Island New York where a ghostly presence and a cold empty fort stirred Newtonian doubt and fear. The mystery ends when a dumb waiter collapses a hidden trap revealing the trunk as the so called specter.
A San Francisco dispatch to The Sun details Mike Hill's grieving on Senator Sharon's fatal illness and Miss Hill Sarah Athea Hills role in his life. The piece covers Belmont mansion, Sharon's estate reportedly worth at least 15 million, and the Hesket h wedding scene where Hills influence is noted.
President Cleveland writes in acknowledgment of being named an honorary member of the 21st Regiment Veteran Association of Buffalo. He recalls leaving Buffalo for the front and the sorrowful return of survivors, urging the city to honor the fallen with a monument and offering to assist the effort.
Colonel Mulligan, widow named pension agent at Chi o bie an American Regulus, was released as a Confederate prisoner to seek a prisoner exchange in Washington. He failed and advised not to return, yet he returned to his Confederate prison duties. Edward Lawson, millionaire owner and editor of the London Daily Telegraph, owns a splendid Bucks County estate and has entered social life.
The passage describes a man who, after initial cooperation, again demands his relatives promise not to settle the lawsuit filed by the woman. The text implies ongoing conflict and repeated pressure to avoid settlement.
J. W. Donovan of Chicago Current argues that rapid industrial progress outpaces demand for goods. He predicts a coming need for mutual exchange within the United States, urging unity of plans to restore confidence and expand trade with Mexico, Peru, and Southern regions to provide outlets for surplus products.
A Plymouth pastor Henry Ward Beecher maintains powerful delivery. An artist and congregant recalls Beecher entertaining friends with anecdotes including a minstrel tale of a poor man with one lung. Beecher’s booming recitation of the right lung prompt a startled reaction, nearly causing a fall from his seat.
A dialogue from the National Weekly shows two young women discussing a man who ignored a salutation. One declares she will not speak to him again, calling him insultful. They ponder if she, or another, is viewed as a weapon, with one labeling her as a catlass under the circumstances.
The Cannibal Islands ruler derides a New York paper reviewing a missionary who led a royal feast. The Prime Minister questions him as the king notes the paper carries advertisements seeking a girl to cook. The incident exposes hypocrisy through a biting denunciation in Life.
Chicago Herald reports on old school books traded for new ones and sent to paver mills for pulp. First Readers are nearly pulp, Second and Third readers show extensive pencil marks, torn pages, and love-notes. Fourth and Fifth readers reveal scribbles, inscriptions, and budding romances, illustrating how youth shaped reading and future marriages.
A prominent wholesale druggist critiques the term patent medicines noting that patents were abandoned early as protectable ideas would be disclosed. He explains the shift to trade marks and copyrights under federal and state authority, and describes how proprietary remedies evolved as the public relied on traditional remedies and individual expertise.
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