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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1884
Page
1
A collage of brief items satirize social behavior with jokes about poets lovers and gossip. A housewife demands canine quinine but the druggist remains silent. A columnist mocks foot and mouth disease as slander. A dining-room girl notes hotel rumors and married men's pretensions.
The piece notes modern female dress reformers echo past crusades and cites a Louis XV decree punishing cosmetic and fashion tricks as witchcraft. It argues that history shows harsher campaigns against female arts and vanities a century ago, with enticements often overcoming enforcement.
Surveyor General Atkinson of New Mexico fights for continued office as Col Breeden defends his record. Breeden claims Atkinson secured over 3 000 000 acres for the government and knows landowners, while opponents label him head of a ring of land grabbers led by Steve Elkins and Steve Dorsey. Retirement would expose alleged crooked operations and misdeeds long urged for removal.
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