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Poetic reflection on sailors at sea and families waiting for loved ones to return home. The narrator recalls long separations, dangers on the foam and the steadfast hope of reunion.
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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1885
Page
6
Norval Metford Reunited With Family After Strange Identity Twist
Oscar Hockersmith arrives in Cregmore posing as Norval Metford staking a claim to a dead son. Acase of mistaken identity leads to arrest, asylum revelation, and a miraculous recovery that restores Norval to his family in a final tale of memory and faith.
Arraignment and Conflicting Tales in River Town
The narrator recounts an arraignment before a justice of the peace amid claims of travel by rail or steamship, false statements to a hotel keeper, and a deck-passenger story. Mr Metford defends him, promising to cover the bill, while the town marshal urges punishment for deception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norval
Grampian Hills
Oscar Hockersmith
Cregmore
Arkansaw River
Antietam
Metford
Mary
Mr. Hockersmith
Richmond
Little Rock
Hockersmith
St. Louis
Bunch
Ae K So Couray
Mr. Metford
Paganini’s Playing Described as Superhuman Demon and Dazzling
The Texas Siftings item surveys Paganini’s violin mastery, painting him as an angel and a demon, with sounds like storm, sea, and thunder. It praises his chromatic roulades, rapid G String octaves, and contrasts, noting even Berlin violinists called it superhuman before noting he died a natural death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paganini
Texas
Berlin
Texas Siftings
A Chinese Miner's Lack and the Lost Miner’s Fortune
The tale recounts John Manuel's English emigrant family crushed by avalanches in an Iowa mine. After multiple deaths and a buried fortune, two Chinese workers reveal a buried box containing 7000 dollars and a ring seen in the Chilean diggings. The box was hidden under the Ladd house where Manuel resided. The finder fled to China, becoming a nabob or mandarin in the Flowery Kingdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Manuel
England
Iowa Eill
North Star Banks
Jamison
Manuel
Ladd House
Mr. Carder
Flowery Kingdom
A Witty Gift Plan From Marital Finances
Ned Stevenson meets Andrew Powell in Bell's jewelry store and learns of a clever birthday gift routine. Powell says he and his wife have swapped a twenty dollar gold piece each birthday for twenty five years, never spending a cent, a system they credit for affordable giving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Stevenson
Andrew Powell
Bell
Texas
Fools Rush in Who Angels Fear to Tread
Impetuous youth lead to folly and nervous decline. Write to Dr. K V Pierce of Buffalo New York for his treatment and home cure details mailed to you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
South America
Josefa T. Inmas
New York
Soldiers discuss Grant's Shiloh article at corner
At a corner post a group of veterans debated Gen Grant's Century Magazine piece on Shiloh. Isidore claimed there was no surprise arguing they invited rebels to breakfast and they obliged.
Balm in Every Wound Promoted by Dr Pierce Discovery
An 19th century ad style excerpt touts Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a universal balm for cold and chronic lung and liver ailments. A light joke about terms of endearment follows, reflecting period dialog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilead
Pierce
Dr Pierce’s Extract of Smart-Weed touted for multiple ailments
Advertised remedy claims to treat colic diarrhea cholera morbus dysentery bloody flux and also to break up colds fevers and inflammatory attacks if used early suitable for a range of stomach and fever related illnesses with best French brandy Jamaica ginger camphor water ingredients named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Pierce
Biographical Notes on O Conor Webster and a Ghost Seance
The March Century includes biographical papers on Charles O Conor by John Bigelow and Reminiscences of Daniel Webster by Stephen M Allen. A Webster portrait from 1849 shows him in a tall silk hat. England paid 25 million dollars to foreigners for cheese last year. A San Franciscan at Mrs Souther’s seance identified a participant as Mr Jackson in front of the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles O’conor
John Bigelow
Daniel Webster
Stephen M. Allen
Philadelphia
Webster
England
Health tonics and scams in a late 19th century column
The item mix promotes Kidney-Wort for female ailments and purgatives for habitual constipation, then promotes a prickly pear tonic, claims on a meat-packer’s library, a skating joke, a cheap hotel claim, a free cure offer for youth indiscretions, a missionary cream, and ends with a jab at Spartans.
Butter Color and Dairymen’s Trade Notes
Dairymen seek high butter prices by using Wells Richardson Co.'s improved Butter Color to achieve giltedges. Advertising notes insure harmless use and nationwide availability. Also mentions life insurance assets in Britain, dye colors, a 1885 Farm Annual offer, and London medical specialization concerns.
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Shiloh
Mrs. Metford
Abe Catham
Missouri Insane
Missouri
Norval Metford
Tam
Arkansaw Traveler
Ducky
Rok
America
Earth
Philip Armour
Omaha
Metropolitan
Life Insurance Companies of
Great Britain
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington
Winged State
W. A. Burpee & Co., Publishers
London
New York City
Vis Centra
Grand Union Hotel
Rees
South Eighth Street
York
Caswel
Ely
Ely Bros
Owego
John H. Vansant
Sandy Hook
Elliott Co
Poe
The
Herald
Brown
Paris
San Luis Park
Col
Homestead
Colorado Loayn & Trust Co
Denver
Colo
Prickly Ash Bitters CO
Kansas City
Hood
Mes. M. A. Exicuts
Charleston
Mass
C. E. Lovejoy
Lowell
J. Scucca
Peoria
Ill
J.B. Staxtox
Mt Vernon
Ohio
Rey M. Minzie Lees
Incinnatii
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