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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1879
Page
2
A devotional plea warns against marrying men to salvage sinful lives. It contrasts the idea of women sacrificing virtue to reform partners with the message that a pure life should come first. The piece urges women to value their own worth and resist marriage as a rescue mission.
A Chicago Tribune report recalls a Western Division sociable where a clever but reckless guest, Smith, proposed mesmerism as a prank on partygoer Jones. After consent, Jones was induced into a trance and made to imagine himself a terrier, a locomotive, and more, causing chaos and astonishment as bystanders laughed at the staged feats.
A wild scene unfolds as Smith parades a raving Jones through a house party attempting a reversal of a magnetic trance. Jones erupts in Shakespearean boastings and hijinks, prompting a police confrontation and a comic return home with both men facing questions from an officer.
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