06 Apr 1889
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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1889
Page
1
A fragment lyric passage expresses a caregiver’s lament for a fragile infant. The speaker describes tending a waif anew, fearing dangers and future sorrows while hoping to shelter the child from harm. The tone blends tenderness with anxious foreboding.
A compilation of property transfers including Joalsh Mann and wife to John A. Moon for 208 acres and other parcels, plus Ada potential filings like Mary Bedford to William Hayden and George Secord to George Jung. The passage closes with legal notices on liquor licensing, penalties, and year updates. it also includes a reflective editorial on the press’s role in local commerce and community.
Dr. Richard G. Buckingham a leading Denver citizen dies in Los Angeles after health decline. He leaves two daughters and a widow and will be brought home for burial. A pioneer physician, educator, and civic leader, he helped found the Denver Medical Association and oversaw the Deaf Mute Institute. He previously served as Denver mayor in 1876 and contributed to Colorado school and public service endeavors.
Dispatches from Samoa report that the American ships Trenton Vandalia and Nipsic and the German vessels Olga Adler and Eber were driven onto a reef during a violent storm and wrecked. Of the American crews four officers and forty six sailors perished, while nine officers and eighty seven sailors died aboard the German ships. London confirms a terrific hurricane wrecking three American and four German men of war with many drowned.
A New York professor who once stammered himself directs a school for speech defects. Pupils from ages 6 to 60 undergo breathing exercises and controlled vowel sounds to gain diaphragm control and soft, deliberate speech. Classes are read aloud in concert, with steps starting from nontalking drill to gradual word formation, aiming for full cure through patient practice.
Robert Bonner may acquire the famed trotter Cel 1:12 from W. Cleveland as part of a stock sale that could include Guy 2:14 Mambrino Sparkle 2:17 and other speedsters. Gordon hoped to train Guy to challenge Mand 8’s record, but a 3.25 second gap remains a hurdle while Bunner stays confident. Jvy remains the world’s fastest trotter, once sold at auction for 460 dollars and now valued far higher.
A Chicago Tribune synopsis notes a tense White House moment as a visitor from Illinois questions whether the president can receive him. The man hesitates about his origins saying he was born in Indiana while his father was a New Yorker, revealing regional and biographical uncertainties.
The Rhode Island 1886 constitutional prohibition passed by 15 113 to 9 230, yet enforcement shifted to the governor’s agitated police. Drunkenness rose, liquor still circulated, and arrest records nearly doubled over four years. Voters acknowledge the policy harms morality but must wait for two legislatures to act before vote on repeal.
The passage argues that food costs cut half incomes for about ninety percent of households and questions how much waste occurs from bad cooking. It estimates significant gains from five cents per day saved on food and fuel, projecting a $109,500 yearly improvement for a six thousand person community and urging labor reformers to focus on practical improvements within current conditions.
An exhortation warns that cheap butter bread and meat are often damaged or adulterated and fail to meet claims. It argues such goods are unsafe, unsatisfactory, and may harbor disease, urging avoidance of low priced foods and stressing hygiene and physiology laws.
A garbled excerpt discusses continents, lakes, and islands, claiming Britain is a continent and mentioning ancient empires such as Assyrian, Persian, Carthaginian, Spanish, Roman and Greek influence. It presents fantastical population figures and weak comparative power statements with unclear sourcing.
The Florida Times Union notes that Mr Blake will fill the St James mission after Mr Depew did not secure it. It suggests Depew might have been minister to England and implies English opinion on American intellect.
A writer argues the term electrocute would destructively authorize execution by electric methods. The commentary frames the neologism as a semantic tool shaping debates over capital punishment.
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