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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1888
Page
3
A discussion on how marriage prompts women to adopt new surnames and the social impact of masculine titles and professional identities for married women. The piece notes how readers often ask how a well known married woman should be addressed and suggests broader acceptance of name changes as part of a woman’s public signature.
A garbled dialogue scene features a misdirected exchange between Mr Brooks and a woman about age and glasses. The text shows broken phrases and misspellings as characters discuss perception and the need for eyewear.
A Sedalia father confronts his daughter about her engagement to a New York drummer. The couple wed secretly after discovering the father’s lack of consent. The daughter admits William already had a wife in a city and another in Chicago. She resolves to join the Philadelphia drummer and leave William. The father learns the match is done, the drummer’s arrival confirms the elopement.
The article notes a trotting stallion named Little Billy with a 2.27 record and his long time driver Janie Hodgim of Brantford. Hodgim has trained and driven Little Billy since childhood, and the pair show strong rapport as Hodgim struggles to guide the horse, which only recognizes him as its master.
In a polemical piece by Bul Nye reprinted from Barton Weekly Globe, Nye mocks taxes and leisure in 19th century American life, arguing for a symbolic Statue of Liberty to symbolize freedom on tap. He warns of moral decay and touches on immigration and social norms with satirical sharpness.
A tramp pleads for a dime to buy bread as a passing man scolds him to work for a living. The exchange devolves into jumbled dialogue about money amounts and a reluctant offer to “raise the balance.” The fragment ends with the traveler pressing for generosity.
The New York market reports a prodigious rise in fruit intake with berries and small fruits leading the surge, and large imports of apples oranges grapes pineapples and bananas. For the year ending March 155 carloads and 113 by steamer of bananas were received in New York, with massive shipments of pineapples and oranges arriving by steamer.
Two continental initiatives seek authorization to build new tunnels and roads to connect Madrid and France. One plan would shorten routes to Madrid while the other promises quicker access to eastern Spanish ports enabling faster relief to Algiers.
The narrator describes meeting General Les during a journey and recounts an old army conversation. He notes the currender story with an apple tree and recalls pretexts surrounding a sword gifted by Virginia. The encounter contrasts uniforms and traveling dress as they reminisce about past times.
A colony of Israelites in Daghestan Terek and Kouban provinces traces to Persians who arrived centuries ago. They form several dialectal communities, practice Talmud in their language, and are distinct from Russian Jews aside from religion. Rabbis answer to Derband chief rabbi. they trade and cultivate madder rice and vine.
The notice details Homestead entry requirements under Dominion Lands Regulations. It outlines three methods to qualify, including residence and cultivation periods, and specifies minimum improvements and house erection timelines. It notes election of provision, proof for patent, and preemption rights with pricing and conditions.
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