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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1884
Page
6
The anonymous poem extols worldly progress through labor and virtue. It contrasts richer wealth from the earth with greater rewards for noble deeds and human striving. It praises reducing old creeds in favor of practical effort and harvests from seeds sown in society.
Jessie Sutton and Edward Neville Tracy meet by chance as they travel east from Chicago. A mistaken escort, a red necktie, and a veil reveal a past romance eight years old. They reunite when the truth unfolds and continue home together, ending happily.
In San Francisco an artisan named Emil Hugo Ney, grandson of Marshal Ney, seeks a share of Count Napoleon Ney’s estate. Born in Koenigsburg, Prussia, he left home young, worked as a ship carpenter, traveled widely, led a railroad crew in Peru, and moved to the coast in 1875. He hopes to pursue his rights in Paris despite family opposition and a court ruling favoring the widow and elder brother’s line.
In a Parisist railway vignette clever exchanges unfold about living in glass houses and smoking etiquette. A teacher and child’s exchange on prophecy is framed beside Guibollard’s polite Parisian quip about the sufferings of a smoker today.
A collage of gibes and quips from early newspapers. Jokes about sleeping on feather beds, misguided romances, book agents, and social blunders mingle with light satire on manners. The excerpt ends with a note on industrial education linking modeling and drawing to understanding form.
Boston Supt Seaver urges a public free school aligned with the high school to develop latent mechanical aptitude through practical training rather than book learning. He argues drawing and manual skills prepare pupils for multiple trades and promote real teaching over rote memory, envisioning a system backed by taxpayers.
The article contrasts stage makeup with daylight cosmetics, noting actresses use white face to counteract gas light and heavy under-eye lines to counteract footlights. It warns society beauties misapply stage techniques, appearing pale and garish in daylight due to unfamiliar lighting.
A humorous note extols the power of a two cent cigar to smooth officials and fellow travelers. The author claims a 2 cent cigar can secure baggage rechecks, elicit timely train information, and unlock local tips from checkmen, brakemen, hotel clerks, and conductors, making travel easier and faster. The pieceplayfully argues no traveler should depart without them.
The 1881 census reports India’s population at 253 891 821 with 21 041 000 in industrial occupations. Europeans total 46 512, civilians 71 199 000 work in agriculture, and 2 515 280 in clothing. Professions include 1 843 000 in government work and 1 451 000 in professional classes.
A child bonnet features a high crown in pale yellow indigo and a brim edged by three rows of small round buttons imitating stained ivory.
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