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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1884
Page
1
A young Huntingdon woman sued to seize her lover's farm after being deserted. The incident prompts her to change her attachment and raises a question posed by Lillie Devereux Blake about whether it is a crime to be a woman, with a sharp quip about celebrating crime.
The text mocks women's political engagement, argues nature balances lacks with compensation, and comments on male intellect. It claims men with soft brains have hard cheeks and ridicules a season when average girls wear veils while downtown. It ends with a jab about misrecognition by male acquaintances.
Et Perkins told a Pittsburgh reporter he would enter a monastery to repent for his lies. He named the monastery and explained he chose it because monks there receive a quart of beer at each meal and the beer is the best in the world.
A Detroit Free Press quotation mocks overambitious edits and impossible tasks. It urges restraint in pleasing everyone while urging bold, improbable actions as a metaphor for editorial judgment.
The press across the nation lauds the verdict in Hot Springs Arkansas where a man was convicted of killing an editor and fined two hundred dollars. The article notes locals historically acquit killers of editors with public thanks and celebratory drinks.
The Grand Island branch of the B and M railway is advancing quickly with trains expected to reach the city within two months. Officials anticipate it will become a major feeder for the line and greatly expand trade with Lincoln’s wholesale market, previously hindered by detours and high tariffs.
Tre Gringo and Greaser extol New Mexico as the best country due to year round green grass mild climate scarce snow except in mountains ample timber protection and nutritious pasturage enabling mid winter cattle shipment for beef.
The Atwood Kansas Citizen urges Nebraska and Kansas stockmen to shelter and feed cattle and sheep through winter. It notes Texas cattle survive on ranges, but natives suffer. buy materials for sheds and hay to endure storms. Delayed feeding weakens stock. keep in good heart by March and through spring.
On a Chicago bound Fort Wayne train an Indian youth returning from Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania stands out in a suit and no necktie. A young man mocks him with stereotypes before the student calmly corrects him. The mocker backs down as the Indian asserts pride in his home and schooling.
Mr W Marritu Williams recalls a spectacle where about three hundred pigs drank a barrel of spoiled elder berry wine. He notes the pigs behaved as humans do when drunk rolling over and grunting in apparent fellowship and staggering with facial expressions indicating intoxication.
The letter notes plowing along the creek, fencing and building by multiple residents, and new wind mills. Sheep ranches near Watts report low losses and healthy flocks of Marine and Cotswold crosses, with 5 percent overall losses mainly from neglect. Farmers from Frenchman and Stinkingwater describe break of soil. crops and land improvements grow, and political optimism favors the Republican administration. April 19th, 1884.
Frank and Charles Moore visited the Magic City after brood mares. Henry Huff's father-in-law J Perkins and family arrive from Missouri to claim three miles from Haigler. The loss of cattle is heavy with over a hundred carcasses on Buffalo Creek. Landowners plow and improve, signaling bright settlement prospects. T Moore and his wife arrive, lumber shipped for a ranch, Miss Hattie plans May 1 return to Michigan and then summer claims. Cap April 22 1854.
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