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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1884
Page
7
A poem reflects on how plowing and tillage bring out soil moisture. The speaker recalls an old farmer’s simple wisdom about rain following human labor, noting the earth grows mellow as furrows open. The lines praise divine order guiding agriculture and abundance.
A collage of 1883 era science items notes copper mine output in Lake Superior at 60 million pounds large river tunnel progress Mersey flood defenses and a Paris academy leadership shift. Also mentions oiled paper surgical dressings water quality in London housing in 1882 and health cautions from salicylic acid arsenic and rattle snake bites. End discusses germ theory and disease spread linking soil water and body environments.
Dr Frankland cites a London Times case where well water became poisoned by factory sewage. The Brentford brewery owner won in chancery. Frankland warns this undermines health and calls for municipal safeguards. Contaminated wells and rivers threaten future supply amid cholera fears and rising urban pollution.
A nineteenth century commentary describes a typhoid outbreak in a single household with four ill members, one nearly dying, and notes the medical impressions of an expert observer regarding the illness and its spread.
The piece criticizes the Minneapolis Tribune for a dismissive note on Science in Story, defending the work as educational and praising numerous major papers. It argues against old foggism and Anthony Comstock, noting widespread praise and the danger of puritanical attitudes shaping laws and parental instruction.
In a New York City scene along Thirty third Street hogs of red and white jerseys are stacked from Rohe’s place to Eighth Avenue. The display topped 100 feet, with twenty hogs weighing 19,648 pounds and four measuring a cord. Breeder John Carter from Burlington, New Jersey, sent the hogs, the largest on record besides a later exception, and each hog had a clean stall and fresh bedding.
A concise warning stresses that a young doctor who damages trust or reputation risks losing patients and harming his medical trade.
A frail, lone bachelor with a hardening heart cherishes a single friend who never mocks him. He extols a silver teapot and Wedgwood, but values the little brown teapot even more than gold. It welcomes him with Hyson tea when he is weary, symbolizing steadfast friendship.
A Chicago Times correspondent details the Idaho mining rush near Cour d'Alene City with 23 below weather, booming camps, packed hotels, and rapid arrival of pack trains. He quotes letters from Portland and notes 1,200 miners, deep snow, and plans for spring digs along the St Joe River and Wolf Lodge areas.
Popular Science Monthly argues that exposure to cold weather does not cause catarrh. It cites frozen patients with frostbite but no catarrhal illness, workers in ice and rolling mills developing rough skin and gray hair, and only rare fever from cold, ending with a Mexico trip toward Orizaba.
The narrator recalls an ice-storm on a summit and a rough return to camp. A sixteen year old and an elderly surgeon struggled to walk after the climb while Dr. Franklin questions the damp clothes cold theory and asserts cold and wet have no proven link to colds.
In Liberty Indiana Burnside and Morton as apprentices caught Caleb B. Smith's eye when Burnside stitched a coat while studying Cooper's Tactics. Smith urged cadetship at West Point, shaping Burnside's future. the boy never forgot the tailor shop's neat habits.
The country editor knows many readers by sight and name and shares in their family events. He attends funerals weddings anniversaries and community gatherings and serves in local societies as president secretary or member.
Tennessee citizen visits New York to raise funds for a planned railroad project in his county. He states the line will be 200 miles long with a five million dollar capital and a partially subscribed stock total of about 300 dollars, urging local investors to complete the funding and proceed.
In Berlin, strict police regulations ban river swimming. Two men discuss Miller who drowned after falling from a boat as the river proved too deep and swimming forbidden by law. The tight controls and fear of punishment underline the tragedy.
Cattle branded J M on left side and J on left jaw with under-slope right ear. Horses branded E on left shoulder. For sale 1 000 acres deeded land in one body with Black and Byfield hay lands, timber, water, two houses and improvements. West of Red Willow creek in Republican Valley near No 1 school privileges. Call or address J F Black Red Willow Neb.
J. B. Meserve lists ranch at Spring Canyon on the Frenchman River in Chase county Nebraska with multiple brands and marks including 717 on left side 7 on right hip and L marks on shoulders and jaw. Cattle range description places stock on Republican Valley four miles west of Culbertson on the south Rebni ean side with P O Culbertson Nebraska address provided.
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