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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1884
Page
3
A fragment from the Chicago Sun describes a poet’s lament of loss and longing. The speaker compares life to a cage and stars to distant hope, noting loved ones rest and fade while he longs for a final shore where home and happiness lie beyond the tide.
A Sacramento child strayed, aided by a dog that would not permit anyone to touch the youngster. The dog kept watch until a blanket was placed, and police carried the sleeping child to the station.
A New York letter critiques fashionable women who treat borrowed infants as toys. It describes nursemaids carrying babies in Central Park and during shopping, highlighting family unrest when relatives seek custody. The piece mocks the craze as costly yet frivolous and faintly alarming.
The piece argues for a cheap narrow gauge Berber Suakim railway from the Red Sea to Berber to support British troops in the Sudan. It contends a 280 mile line can be built in four months at about £750,000, using available iron and mobile armed carriages, with water supplies and oasis stations along the route.
Dr. Lews D. Brose argues in The Medical Record that tuberculosis can be spread via air borne sputa particles and through close contact including kissing. He notes susceptibility varies by individuals and that even small exposure may cause infection in those with weak lungs or catarrhal tendencies.
A collection of brief snippets from various newspapers including Kate Field on grandmothers and great grandmothers, the effective preacher drawing crowds, Sam Ward on greens turned to salads, and a science piece titled Has Vulcan Left the Skies.
Susan Anna Brown writes in St Nicholas July on choosing the right company for picnics and the best locations. She urges avoiding troublesome companions, distributing work, and deciding on a spot in advance to prevent fatigue and discomfort. The piece also notes railroad executives debating freight routing between Chicago and Denver.
A narrator recalls the origin of the phrase running for president with a satire on a supposed Indian gauntlet ritual. Citizens in two lines shower the candidate with blows as he runs the gauntlet, then greet him afterward with mock civility and gifts. The piece ends with a reply urging the reader to grow up and seek guidance.
J A Munroe of Union Pacific reports to A C Bird of Milwaukee & St Paul that Denver traffic shows Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and Burlington & Missouri River control most of Denver retail freight. The main hurdle for Union Pacific is slow Western roads Line transit, with Chicago times around sixty hours.
A Chicago Inter Ocean correspondent quotes Daniel Webster on Chief Justice Mason's death. Webster argues no earthly fame lasts. only virtue and personal worth endure. He calls religion essential to great character and warns that a life without religious duty is living without God.
A Lincoln institutional school, Wayne PA area mentions Lizzie Spider an Indian girl formerly at Carlisle who was sold to a Sioux brave for ponies. She fled to avoid savage life, hid in woods for months, and was later found by Captain Pratt who returned her to the Lincoln school where she remains determined not to be sold for ponies or forced to cook and work.
The Chicago Tribune promotes Robert W. Patterson Jr to managing editor succeeding the late Samuel J. Medill. Patterson, a Williams College 1871 graduate, is praised for his promise and is noted as part of a wider pattern of ministers’ sons entering journalism with prominent roles in Chicago News Philadelphia Press New York Sun Springfield Republican and New York Herald lineage.
The article traces early watch development from a plate size pocket clock to later improvements in 1560. It notes iron cases, straight steel springs, and single-handed dials, with early watches costing over $1,500 and taking a year to manufacture after order.
A New Orleans Picayune quip notes varied awakenings while a Platte range cow bears the branded phrase The last, thank God. Cowboys reportedly inscribed the message after a long branding run, signaling completion.
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