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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1884
Page
8
Poem excerpt describes Patines slipping on rooftops heard in midnight air. It compares music to drowsy wine and dew that soothes weary listeners. It evokes angels weeping, mothers rocking babes, and remembered words easing sorrow.
The verse contemplates sorrow as a star of sadness from Hope Faith and Love. It frames parting as a crown of sorrow each life bears below. The piece contrasts different sources of sorrow showing how faith and love define human endurance.
Dr L L Seaman, a leading New York physician, discusses how visions and ecstatic states reported by religious writers arise from trance like conditions. He links such experiences to dreams and mesmeric trance with common physiological explanations.
A discussion on stenography cites Beecher and reports of his sermons. It notes reporters cannot capture every word of rapid speech and recounts a 42 minute sermon yielding about 6000 words. The piece reflects on accuracy, misrepresentation, and the reporter’s role in shaping public perception.
A Philadelphia barber explains shingling hair as layering bangs into a fluffy ridge that appears to bubble from the head. He notes most clients are ladies, with parties sometimes visiting homes and others coming to the shop where men may be shaved nearby.
A Concord correspondent visits Jesse Pomeroy, confined in solitary in a Massachusetts prison. The youth is said to have grown into a man of unusual intellect and literacy, reading multiple languages in a well lit cell. Despite intellect, observers deem him morally depraved, unable to grasp the enormity of his child murders.
An old friend extols his son as a brilliant natural orator likened to Henry Clay and winning a medal in declamation. The speaker warns that natural orators fail to amount to much, noting his own medal failed to improve life and advising wealth as the remedy, in a humorous Atlanta Constitution tone.
A weary drummer, in town twenty four hours, asks about dinner. The waiter suggests roast duck and jokes about a bird on the run. The drummer declares he will take the entire duck and help it along on the road, admiring the bird’s pluck.
In a lazy session the California Railroad Commissioners faced a farmer’s interruption. After they ordered him ejected, the man declared he would make an impression and proceeded to throw eggs from his pocket, pelting the commissioners.
A correspondent notes a tall, perfectly proportioned young woman in a seamless elastic jersey bodice with a short striped skirt and black stockings as she plays tennis. Her hat is described as unusually large and eccentric, raising questions about exhibition and style.
A young English woman suffers a railroad accident and sues the company. She wins a verdict deemed excessive, with the judge ordering a new trial after noting the plaintiff and her sister appeared so beautiful that jurors were distracted.
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