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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1887
Page
6
The Washington Critic presents a quip about a convalescent bargaining with a physician over fees. The patient offers to pay whatever is fair once crops are paid and other bills settled, hoping the doctor will defer charges until better times.
Dr Blaisdell journeys from Prescott to Cocopee Springs to aid Sam Quarls and his daughter Mabel. An Indian raid traps them. amid danger he learns he loves Mabel. They escape through a tunnel to find Sam’s gold dust hidden, worth over one hundred fifty thousand dollars, making Mabel an heiress.
The Jacksonville News-Herald urges a cheerful view amid yellow fever in Key West. A fable features Colonel Chop-Sticks meeting the Genius of Cholera who calm tells him to continue his journey as fright alone causes mass deaths, illustrating demoralization during epidemics.
The article praises Inyo county marble as hard and pure with diverse colors. A University of California test crushed an inch cube at 26 900 pounds, versus 6000 pounds for Vermont and 10 000 pounds for Italian marble. It describes white statuary, black and deep blue varieties, dove color, golden veined types, and patterns resembling moss agate.
In a New York Tribune report, Hermann the magician entertains a group of theatrical men after joking about Brook lyn. he demonstrates sleight of hand tricks, transforming torn cigarette paper, vanishing a tobacco pouch and reappearing it, and making coins and jewelry appear through deft movements and witty patter.
In Brooklyn a pious deacon, six months married and owner of a setter named Bailey, receives a Boston telegram misread by a cross mark under the word baby. He fears a scandal and rushes home, only to learn the cross signified doubt in the word, not a dire personal crisis.
A Pall Mall Gazette writer recounts a Sunday ether operation starting at 1 30 after avoiding consciousness and veiling darkness. The account details the mask device, the sense of drifting, then waking to nausea and relief as the surgeon proclaims the procedure complete. Edwin Booth story notes his dog recognizing him after European travels and a long separation.
From the San Francisco Journal comes a tale of Jim Yount, a Bitter Creek figure linked to multiple crimes across Montana and surrounding territories. He earned a feared reputation for robbery, murder, and saloon violence, with a final gunshot at Helena ending his spree and leaving his grave marked by a weathered board.
A fragmentary passage recalls Jim’s age and a celebrated roundup in Bitter Creek, contrasting a quiet ranching community with legends of past violence. Helena is mentioned as a target of lore, while Julian Hawthorne is noted living in Plains, New Jersey, writing a new novel.
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