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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1878
Page
2
The piece notes returning rail laborers from Brazil, a critique of Iowa political forecasts for 1880, and editorial clashes with a rival paper. It reports gold discoveries near Fort Benton, Bearpaw mining districts, and a claim of bribery tied to the returning Board, naming Kellogg’s office and a witnesses but without full specifics.
A New York Times item lists awards of goods by the Board of Indian Commissioners to Indian reservations including pins, hooks and eyes, suspenders, and clothes pins. The piece mocks the paternalistic program and imagines how such items might be misused by the Indians, suggesting cultural insensitivity and satire.
The piece recalls matches, combs, pins and blacking as Indian trade items and tools for living on reservations. It notes how goods like soaps and hooks prompted fears of weapons, reflecting contractor practices and frontier superstition amid treaty talks and supply missions.
A humorous note mocks a Baptist Bible translation into Japanese using soaking for baptism. It cites a line about John the soaker preaching the soaking of repentance and urges readers to repent and be soaked, reflecting past hopes and a natural barometer.
A fragmentary poetic piece contrasts a daisy’s hopeful song with a shadowed suitor and a later grim warning of domestic strain. It shifts to a lily tale where a vine's embrace ends in tragedy, underscoring love’s peril and loss. The voice hints at household friction and foreshadows consequences of passion.
A dream of an elephant on his equator wakes a man at 2 am and stirs regret for not attending church in youth. A lecturer questions recognition in the afterlife while one convert jokes about religion or poetry. The piece notes poets might reclaim thoughts from an editor’s waste basket.
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