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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1883
Page
2
A speaker recalls a piano melody and a beloved voice from a bygone year. The tune lingers as memories of summer, seas, and distant places echo in the mind. The poem blends sorrow and nostalgia as the singer wanders back to a remembered shore.
A Washington Record exposé decries colored and white loan brokers draining department clerks with 30 percent monthly interest. It traces schemes from easy loans to crippling renewals, notes, and coercive threats, noting high officials’ pushback and a widow’s claim against a clerk.
A fragment notes someone wishing to be a department banker and mentions a $100 face value note paid in interest multiple times. It reads as an illustrative sample with unclear context.
In a tribute to rapid modern progress, the Chicago and Atlantic line, linked with the Erie, promises a palace on wheels. Pullman cars boast cherry and maple interiors, plate glass, leather panels, electric dining, and sleeping rooms that blend day drawing rooms with night beds. Travel that once wore travelers down now feels like a holiday, with thirty hours for a thousand miles from Chicago to New York Bay.
Bricks heated to high temperatures are impregnated with asphalt, absorbing 15 to 20 percent bitumen as air and water are driven out. The resulting porous material becomes durable and elastic under pressure and is laid end to end on the tow bed with hot tar. The pavement region shows improved wear resistance where granite and compressed asphalt failed.
A Coventry legend debunking essay details how the Godiva ride has no solid origin in early chronicles and may stem from later myth making. The piece notes other fables and argues many historic tales fade under modern skeptical analysis, citing Niebuhr and others.
Harper's travels through central Virginia and Kentucky describe a fertile Blue Grass region centered on Lexington. The piece highlights hemp history shifting to stock-raising, wealth from thrift and land, and a fervent horse-breeding culture where owners boast of future great horses and judge a man by his stock.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin correspondent argues English farming is shiftless. He says English tenant farmers fail to compete unless they adopt a different farming style. He notes small farms yet rely on slow dull labor for all work.
A reporter details a traveling showman plan to exhibit two nine year old children described as half human and half alligator. Discovered near St. Augustine, the kids reportedly swim with a five foot tail and lead normal lives aside from their unusual form. Charles Lewis, associated with the Bloody Knife Combination Company, intends to transport them to Cincinnati and Louisville next week with limited public displays.
A party on an open car on a steep Rocky Mountain grade near the Northern Pacific division faced a deadly chase when a freight train of eight iron laden cars and an engine sped toward them. One man loosened their brake, sending the car rolling down the hill in a life risking race to reach a safe bottom.
A London report says shorthand faces replacement by a six lever glossograph that traces speech with a pen. The reporter would echo the speaker while the tongue remains in a cage making rapid records. Critics note the device may seem odd and awkward in use.
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