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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1884
Page
3
A humorous tale from the New York Journal features the Sluggard who joins a baseball club to earn his daily grub by sport. He strikes the ball but is knocked down in a chaotic scene, ending with a crimson nose and a vow to quit exercising.
Rev Dr L Wintner spoke at Temple Beth Elohim on the resurrection, detailing its varying acceptance in Hebrew history from antiquity through medieval times, contrasting it with the soul’s immortality and Christian doctrine, and noting modern Judaism’s stance against bodily resurrection.
G H Scribcer argues that early Earth needed to shed its excessive heat to become habitable for life. He links planetary cooling to enabling conditions for plants and animals and cites the start of the Azoic age as the moment such changes began.
In an upper terrace setting Liszt and I sit with bells and an Angelus piece. The abbate listens, Liszt unveils the Angelus on his Erard piano, the room framing a fading Italian sunset and ruination of monks in the distance. A rare, intimate musical encounter unfolds.
Dr. Robert Wright whose death was announced yesterday came from a family famed for dueling. He was governor of the state in 1806 and fought a duel with General Lloyd, during which the former was shot.
A collage of quips and witticisms from various papers about social norms and manners. The pieces reference fashion, politics, taxes, and gender roles with humor and irony.
The York Sun describes the year’s baseballs offered by toy and sporting stores. It explains production details from Para rubber cores to wool yarn and leather covers, noting weights nine ounce limits, bounce control, and materials like horseskin or flax sewn catgut.
A historical note endorses distilled water and diluted phosphoric acid to slow aging. It argues distilled water dissolves and clears excess salts, prevents calcified deposits, and aids elimination after middle life. The piece warns against carbonate rich waters from chalky soils and cites Mr. de Lacy Evans on combined chemical action.
A Hanover New Hampshire physician cites a Royalton Vermont diphtheria outbreak to warn how easily the disease spreads within households. The chain shows how care by neighbors led to multiple infections and deaths among children, emphasizing that preventing spread requires in home care with strict sanitation rather than sending sick children into other families.
A Norwich grocer agrees to give a ride to a Chinese laundryman. The man thanks him with pigeon English phrases Blink? Blink? and Blinkee whiskee, then corrects himself saying Skusee I tinks all Melican man blinkee whisk e but no knowee.
Stock directory lists ranches in Thornburg Hayes County and Spring Canyon on the Frenchman River Chase County Nebraska. Cattle branded J M on left side for the first ranch with J on left jaw and er cee in the right ear. Horses branded E on left shoulder. Spring Canyon stock includes brands 717 on left side O L on left hip 7 on right hip L on right shoulder L on left shoulder and X on left jaw with ear crops.
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