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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1885
Page
6
The poem presents winter’s bitterness and isolation as a lover’s lament. It contrasts cold landscapes with memories of summer and lost affection, ending with a note of longing for eternal rest.
Themistocles Bobbin and his wife Carrie marry hastily after a flood relief ball. Their quarrels, a crooked preacher, and a quick divorce lead Bobbin to reinvent himself as William Lagson, rising from lawyer to editor. Years later Carrie, writing as Sullarura, becomes a valued contributor to Lagson’s magazine.
In a newsroom scene set a year after Sal larura and Layson meet, editor and Carrie share a late night moment. He confesses love, recalls past faults and asks to marry her, while she hesitates, then replies yes amid tender emotion.
An Arkansas Traveler excerpt describes a couple discussing marriage with dramatic declarations of love and humility. The dialogue centers on shifting identities and a plea to wed immediately, ending with a hopeful invitation to home.
The article recounts Ulysses S. Grant describing how a neighbor’s failed West Point candidate and his father’s letter to a congressman led to his appointment. He details his surprise at passing the exam, his 21st rank at graduation, and reflects that many who left for failure later rose to high command.
Tenniel cartoons note men in clubs avoid marriage while women of the same rank incur high dress costs. The piece argues the expense of female attire is a serious modern evil, forcing professionals and younger sons toward costly domestic life or perpetual single status.
The San Francisco Daily Report condemns gambling among youths citing a charity carnival prize lottery a wax doll as harmful. It argues lotteries cultivate a desire for gain without work and criticizes church and charity groups for supporting raffles. The piece warns that gambling harms may be worse than alcohol among young attendees.
Gath describes his visit to Cleveland’s executive chamber noting the man’s solid, businesslike bearing. The portrait portrays Cleveland as a decisive, nonflamboyant New York state gentleman and a practical, efficiency minded leader suited to a commercial age.
A brief sketch notes a mercantile service with a man who shows little interest in his past career. It describes him as lacking curiosity and with limited literary or repertorial faculties, offering a terse portrait of character and pursuits.
Special reports from Carroll Murray and Dahlonega counties describe bold revival in Georgia gold mining. The Ernestine company and others invest heavily while the Legal Tender mines on Calcuttah Mountain show rising ore values from $2.40 to over $100 per ton, with some samples reaching $2,000 per ton.
In Croker's Conversations with the Duke of Wellington the dialogue explores war as guessing what lies beyond the hill. The duke likens strategy to calm movement on a battlefield and notes Soult lacked postbattle troop handling. He cites Lannes on the smoke clarifying sight and emphasizes clear mind and action.
Petrified wood from Arizona Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains is rapidly used in San Francisco for mantle pieces tiles and tablets. Factories cut and polish petrifactions offering finer polish than marble or onyx while many companies seek concessions along the Atlantic and Pacific railway. Geologists warn against destroying primeval remains and urge preservation, as the wheat crop has doubled in ten years.
A roundup of scientific curiosities including guncotton light locomotion, electric decomposition of salts, and acids’ reaction rates. Reports from Paris on gas disinfection favoring sulfurous gas and bisulphide of carbon as practical room sanitizers.
Mrs Spilkins asks her husband to remove clothes before bed and he responds he dreamt finding the North Pole and wants to avoid freezing, requesting help with an overcoat. The scene comes from a Dal las Texas merchant in Texas Siftings.
American investors acquire prime coal and timber lands in British Columbia and gain influence in the northwest. Minneapolis capitalists buy a large Deer River tract claimed to hold vast petroleum potential and ship drilling gear and crews to the territory.
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