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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1884
Page
6
An aged narrator recalls a turbulent voyage from youthful zest to mature resignation. Storms of passion yield to quiet harbor life as the speaker notes sails worn, anchors dropped and friends reunite, with Blackwood as the likely literary imprint.
In this issue the Breeders' Gazette discusses hay feeding as a disciplined method to avoid waste and daintiness in animals. It notes weighing and calculating starting rations, then adjusting by experience and fixed plans to improve thrift. It also analyzes hog cholera claims and compares corn, wheat, bran, and middlings for growing pigs, endorsing corn while noting wheat as healthier and potentially cheaper for young animals.
The article advises breeding best results from repeated use of a single thoroughbred sire on cows, warns against mixing breeds, and stresses consistency. It also describes gait and bearing traits linked to character, noting how walking style may hint at honesty, temperament, or reliability.
A Berkshire County Massachusetts farmer writes to the Scientific American describing his goals and scientific interests. He explains that his object has always been to pursue practical agricultural improvements and share findings with the wider scientific community.
A farmer describes optimizing butter quality by reducing oil content and altering feeding and manure handling, noting high prices and steady demand. The passage also reflects on the gait of statesmen and philanthropists, distinguishing honest behavior from theft and urging early cultivation of integrity.
The Rural New Yorker condemns fairs as mostly corrupt and degrading. It laments managers who allow fraudulent attractions for money and urges farmers and decent citizens to demand reform or replacement of leaders who protect immorality and harm to youths.
Attorney General Brewster, newly arrived from Newport, plans a Washington move next week and hosts with antique elegance. His peculiar, book-filled home in a lawyer district features a grand library, old carvings, and a signal of a silk onion-jack for his valet, while Mrs. Brewster prefers a more fashionable residence near Childs’ marble town house.
A New York Herald essay argues that American society lacks native social traditions and must craft a distinct mode of manners. It condemns hereditary snobbery, urges rejection of old world ease, and calls the rising American generation to challenge entrenched power and pretension.
Rev E P Roe marks the conclusion of Nature's Serial Story in Harper's Christmas issue with Gibson and Dielman collaborating on richly illustrated fiction. The pair produce portraitures of the American year and a deluxe holiday volume with additional Gibson illustrations. A Baltimore paper praises a Catholic clergyman at a plenary council as unusually intelligent. Boston Globe notes the lineage of minstrel joke origins as an enduring ambition.
A lyrical meditation on music’s power to move the soul from cottage to hall and battlefield to sea. The piece, attributed to the Chicago Sun, calls music mystic and ethereal, capable of banishing sorrow and bringing peace through heavenly tones.
An eastern judge jokes with a traveling Arkansas lawyer about regional quirks as they meet a squatter family. The landlord conversation reveals locals’ hardships and evasive answers about birth years and ages, portraying a humorous portrait of frontier poverty.
A column surveys diverse notes from medicine to fashion, drought to transport. Topics include shaving risks, olive oil scarcity for silk loading, Manchester water famine threats, bicycle speed claims, Cat Alley renamed Pussy Avenue, drought impacts in Australian colonies, Esquimaux leisure, hawkish hack-driver gripes, English dietary habits, deer released near Ware Massachusetts, and the Tallien girdle trend worn by Mrs Langtry.
A wry compilation of quotes on domestic life and practical wit. It notes that true workers love finishing tasks, mocks cant expressions, and ends with a quirky tale of a mossy Little Rock in Arkansas carried by a glazier, known as the Arkansaw Traveler.
The Dead Letter Office reveals domestic letters opened last year contained money 15000 drafts and money orders 15000 and receipts 16000. Money received 32647 and drafts worth over 1.3 million. Among 35000 photographs 66000 bore stamps. Curiosities range from shirt cuffs to dirks lace moccasins hooves skulls claws snakes alligators Easter cards and gold nuggets showing items mailed across the mails.
The brief notice from the Whitehall Times hints at a lean ballet titled Toke described as a ballet stuffer, a terse item likely noting a performance or description in a local paper.
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