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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1884
Page
3
A Detroit Free Press excerpt urges loyal reaction to friends in misfortune. It asks readers to offer aid and not desert those who stood by during brighter times, comparing life to a sea voyage and urging mutual aid despite rumors or slander.
Popular Science notes China adopting electric light and issuing orders for submarine telephones on British ships carrying divers. It covers Silk dye changes, Koch’s cholera bacilli, and tech notes on aluminum, steam locomotives, air quality, and built up wood for crafts, with various industrial observations.
Mrs Lincoln the Boston cookery lecturer warns against the idea that oil stoves have no trouble and offers practical guidance. Clean the burner daily remove gummy deposits wash wick trim square and keep brass parts dust free, regulate flame to prevent smoking and odor, use high quality oil, and fill after use.
The piece notes Weed's mature religious influence without formal professions or articles of faith. It highlights a sober, conscientious, reverential life guiding his public and private conduct.
An elderly man named Mr. Weed, facing eighty four years and repeated losses, rebuffs a Baptist youth who visits to discuss sin and the afterlife. He notes a lifetime between worlds and asks how a young preacher can offer insight into the meaning of life and death. The young man departs without persuading him.
An essay argues that most people reject living life again despite wisdom gained. It notes that the successful and aging alike prefer memory to reliving youth, maturity, or childhood, finding self pride and contentment in what once was and not in recurrence.
The Texas cattle situation is discussed as a potential threat in a regional quarantine plan. Kansas and other states propose restricting cattle from New York infected districts, while Missouri declines. Texas, a major cattle producer, is not named in the plan, implying possible exclusion from western markets and continued pressure on Texas beef prices.
The piece argues caution on a proposed quarantine to guard against pleuro-pneumonia in Kansas and Missouri, warning Texas interests could suffer if southern Texas faces containment rules. It urges governor attention and possible federal action to minimize interstate cattle trade disruption.
The article notes an upcoming record wool clip in the United States despite a financial panic depressing prices. Colorado supplies face countermanded orders, while producers brace for uncertain demand. Hugo Kansas sees a new Union Pacific shear facility and planned warehouse, with 200000 sheep within 100 miles benefiting from wagonless transport.
Eight percent of Polk County Oregon sheep were killed by coyotes last year. Texan ponies are being sent to England for saddle horse use prized by polo players. Bran mashes aid early foaling mares, oats beat corn for mares and suckling colts. Norman horses show misproportions. selective breeding with mares to Norman stallions could improve. The Shropshire Down is a reliable breeder and mother, yielding more than one lamb yearly with medium fine fleece.
TheBoston Globe reports Rev. Mr. Savage’s sermon on the working women’s problem. while praising some aims like training schools and equal work for women, it argues his reforms stop at surface remedies. It asserts deeper change is required by addressing root social and economic conditions affecting both sexes.
A witty Arkansas traveler recounts a fashionably social exchange at a reception. A guest mocks a red mustached man as a whisky bloated husband, sparking a duel of pride between rival wives, with talk of gubernatorial prospects for the husband and wagers on reactions.
A New York World comic dialogue scene shows a husband arguing with his wife and a magistrate over alimony and living with his in laws. The husband complains he must support his wife and fears being forced to live with her family as he tries to avoid paying.
Catalogue offering price list and full description by agent McCook M A Spalding for Nebraska.
Stock directory entry describes a ranch on Red Willow Thornburg Hayes County Nebraska with cattle brands J M on left side and J on left jaw, E on left shoulder for horses, and sale of 1 000 acres including hay lands timber and water with two houses. Contact J F Black Indianola Nebraska. Also Spring Canyon ranch in Chase County Nebraska branded J M 717 T L X and other marks with ear crops and jaw brands.
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