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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1884
Page
3
Poem invites readers to listen for spring’s hidden signs as nature awakens. It celebrates robins bluebirds swallows and grasses growing, urging readers to hear the secret songs of buds blossoms and sap in the early season.
In a detailed reminiscence Calvin recalls the 1848 Congress and giants like Webster Clay Calhoun and Benton. He notes the era's politics the slave debate and the last years of that legislative body. Webster and Clay are depicted with contrasting traits while Calhoun and Benton receive sharp portraits. Lincoln stories and an anecdote about Jenny Lind punctuate a broad élan of period recollections.
An elderly judge agrees to fund a marriage by placing $150000 in the bank for Miss Lockwood, with $50000 to the groom and $25000 each to the mother and others. The engagement is announced, the wedding set, and Harry Packer marries the woman he prefers gaining control of the wealth through the union.
Eli Perkins, a Royal Arch Mason, traveled from Oil City to New York after a depot interview. He described joining Masonry, his plans to attend the grand lodge in New York, and his aim to lecture and write as part of his professional life. He humorously recounts becoming a newspaper man and departs as the train begins.
A Chicago broker says as many as 500 women speculate in wheat, many via friends on the board. He condemns female gambling as unwomanly and dangerous, recounting a merchant’s wife who pawned diamonds after a loss and narrowly avoided violence.
The New York Telegram questions the notion that boys are worsening, calling the claim impossible and noting the prevalence of worn plastron in various forms.
The senate passed bankruptcy legislation creating district courts and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia as bankruptcy courts with broad jurisdiction. It outlines open courts, circuit supervision, commissioners, supervisors, fees, and rules on petitions, acts of bankruptcy, exemptions, and support allowances.
In Scotland two gamekeepers on the Rosebery estate were killed by poachers Robert Vickers and John Innes. They were tried by the high court of justiciary in Edinburgh on March 10 and found guilty by a majority. Sentenced to death, their execution occurred three and a half months after the crime, illustrating Scotland’s speedy justice and the public moral argument for it.
Three English novelists are simultaneously contributing to Harper periodicals Charles Reade writes A Perilous Secret for the Bazar Wilkie Collins contributes Say No to the Weekly and William Black presents Judith Shakespeare to the Magazine Scientific notes report liquid oxygen boils at 106 C and forms crystals The critical temperature occurs at 115 C under 40 atmospheres according to M Wroblewski
Stock directory describes brands for cattle and horses at Ranch on Red Willow Teprabary Bare Neb with J on left side and left jaw, E on left shoulder for horses, and for Spring Canyon on the Frenchman River in Chase County brands include 717 O L 7 L X L and other marks. Range listed as Republican Valley four miles west of Culbertson with P O address Culbertson Nebraska.
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