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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1884
Page
8
A London World piece looks at a once handsome man of fifty whose vitality wanes after a warm season. He clings to club and park appearances, clumsy in aging, with a revived but frail charm. The article notes his waning conversation, nervous affect, and evasive social maneuvers as he clings to past prestige.
A playful quarrel between a bride and groom at Niagara Falls riffs on Blaine and Cleveland tickets from Chicago. The husband explains only one can win while a vice president remains, prompting a comic misreading that contracts to a ride to Whirlpool Rapids.
A Providence woman inspecting corned beef noticed a stone used to hold meat in brine bore an inscription Susan -, Died -, 1849, Aged 8 months. Distracted, she fled the market as the vendor quipped that the stone belongs in the pork barrel.
The chronicle notes that children across all periods and classes share similar tastes. They enjoy ball games, breaking things, teasing, mud-pies, sand, tearing clothes, and revel in simple pleasures. Civilization appears to be a network of man made complications layered atop constant human nature.
A short, humorous exchange at a New York lodging ends with a landlady offering dessert. Mr. Dumley surveys a scant whortleberry pie and calls it an oasis rather than a dessert, prompting playful banter about proper names.
A French authority warns that cats in India are occasionally attacked by cholera and may transmit the disease to humans, highlighting potential zoonotic risk and public health concern.
An advertisement lists paints oils window glass cigars tobacco wall paper books and stationery reading matter school books slates pencils toilet articles pure wines and liquors for medical purposes and in fact everything usually kept in a first class drug store.
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