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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1884
Page
7
A poet recalls a moonlit walk where the speaker falls for a maiden seen at twilight. The scene blends winter and fragrance as the narrator pleads for even a token of affection. The tale centers on unspoken love and a ring once worn, now gone.
A nostalgic piece catalogs reporter errors from missed sermons to misread biographies and mistaken fires. It recalls a priest’s overcoat mix up a Sheridan hoax and a fake funeral miscue, ending with New York papers lampooning Hell Gate illumination.
Lieutenant F Patten of the Twenty first infantry wed Miss Hattie C Besse of New Bedford Massachusetts at the Paxton hotel in Omaha. Attendants included Lt Coffin and Lt McQuiston with Mrs Patten set to join Fort McKinney shortly after the ceremony. Captain William H Besse, a noted shipbuilder, is her father.
The Chicago editor Wilbur F Storey who died recently was seen as a hard man yet shown a warm side to animals. Biographer Frank Wilkie notes Storey fed stray dogs housed pets and treated horses with care and kindness, despite a private aloof public bearing.
The passage questions how adults dismiss childhood sorrows as minor while grief mellowing with time. It reflects on memory, youth, and the relativity of trouble, suggesting that what is painful to children may be treated as insignificant by the middle aged and pondering life after death as a realm where early tribulations may seem large.
Southern papers warn of a frightening number of accidents in cotton gins as gin mills are described as dangerous workplaces with frequent injuries.
An engineer Charles Wilson and fireman Daniel Mahlon of the B M railroad were killed when engine No 96 left the track near the Union Pacific bridge. The wreck occurred after a switch failed, trapping both men in the cab as steam and scalding water filled the compartment. The brakeman survived, and early reports indicated heavy community sympathy for their families.
Mr. John P. Daly of Gillisonville South Carolina reports strong relief from Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia fever age and general debility. He says the medicine gave satisfactory results and urges others with rundown systems to try it.
A barn owned by D W Laughey near St George Newbury West Virginia burned at night revealing a badly burned middle aged man in the ruins a tramp seen in town earlier is suspected two men may have been inside a partial burned hand found later Closer reports place him as possibly two occupants The Colorado pool lines meeting was held Denver Pueblo Colorado Springs territory defined Denver Rio Grande Santa Fe lines Nebraska Kansas Missouri boundary set George H Daniels elected commissioner J F Tucker arbitrator
The gown, made in white satin and Paris embroidery, features a clump of silver roses on a soft glistening background described as frost work. It includes orange blossom garlands, a short basque with V neck, elbow sleeves, peel lace trim, Brussels point veil, and a diamond headpiece.
A robust Polish woman about 23 years old, employed with fellow workers in hedging corn near Bay street, fell ill during harvest. Brown conveyed mother and newborn infant to her Wells street home and she walked inside unaided. Her name remains unknown.
A Troy man confronts stalls filled with bonds and stock certificates of busted bubbles, noting they cost him about $60,000 whenever he enters his stable. The scene merges symbolic paperwork with his financial ruin.
A street overheard dialogue highlights Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as cures for coughs and catarrh. Story recalls poet and traveler biographies and mentions druggists selling these remedies. The exchange contrasts medical hype with personal anecdotes from New York reporters and locals.
An English writer asks why Americans age quickly. the Montreal Star counters that they do not. The item jokes that Mary Anderson has stayed 21 for five years and Maggie Mitchell nears thirty after forty years, ending with mentions of Dr. Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed.
Carrie Walters, alias Carrie Johnson, shot and killed George Walters in Water Street home after midnight. She admitted the crime saying she could not let anyone else have him and was arrested while kissing him in his dying moments. Walters leaves a wife and child.
Bernard Nantre a Royal Street real estate broker shot himself in his desk chair after draining client funds. He wrote honest death is preferable to a disgraceful life and told clients he would make good the amounts. He was 72, survived by a wife.
In Grove park St Louis a crowd gathered despite a rain storm on the 25th to unveil a statue honoring President Garfield. Addresses were given by Dr Emile and sculptor Carl Cauer, dedicatory remarks by D P Orrley, with music, readings, and a letter from President Arthur and Governor Crittenden. Mrs Helen Feich presented a memento to Carl Cauer.
In Castroville district court Texas W D Ward received a ninety nine year penitentiary term for the murder of Bob Fly in Dondo county about a year ago. Ward a former traveling correspondent for the Morning Express was widely known as a Texas newspaper man. The killing occurred during a drinking outing when Ward allegedly fired a pistol into Fly's head and then claimed amnesia.
The Vottaic Bett Co of Marshall Michigan offers to send their ELECTRO VOitaic Bett and other appliances on a thirty day trial to men with nervous debility vitality and manhood issues. They claim complete restoration to health vigor and manhood with no risk due to the thirty day trial. An Empire suburb Carson City brick house sold recently for 105.
A description of the Grand Union Hotel postulates six hundred rooms at one million dollars, with European plan and elevator, offering cost-efficient stay and access to depots via horse cars and elevated lines. The item blends travel notes with advertisements for various cures and quirks in a period newspaper tone.
An advertisement for Central Hospital Omaha Nebraska promotes a new fifty bed facility with private rooms and privacy for confinement. It notes skilled surgical operations and attentive physicians along with reasonable rates and address for particulars.
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