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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1879
Page
2
A reflective poem speaks of remorse and lost love as memory fades. The speaker warns that distant sorrow and regret will come when death ends earthly care, and longings for former affection persist in death’s quiet grave.
A narrator and Phillip Fletcher share a summer of mischief with city boarders unseen. A strawberry prank leads to a fall and a comic awakening as they plan a staged later marriage amid rural charm and teasing dialogue. The tale tracks June to October as the couple grows closer through playful misunderstandings.
A Boston merchant notes extreme sales salaries in the past with examples of up to 30,000 a year for a dry goods salesman during wartime. He cites 17,000 and 10,000 yearly earnings, contrasts fortune with later decline, and observes that many fortunes fade while steadier, moderate earners fare better.
In a humorous exchange a master jokes about going to town at ten and weeding cucumber beds in the interim. A visitor asks if Mr Snoglethorpe is home and is told he is at work in this interim, nearby.
A ten year old prodigy in Maine has mastered arithmetic and corrected the almanac. He is now beginning to learn the unabridged dictionary by rote. After that he plans to calculate what is in a clam crowder.
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