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Newspaper
Stromsburg Republican
Location
Stromsburg, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1890
Page
6
A pensive ballad of farewell and longing as a sailor departs a harbor and vows return. The speaker remembers a mill dock, a village kirk, a night wind and a wet sheet, while a beloved lass waits ashore and awaits a future reunion with silver coins and joy.
Vera Claremont pleads with her ailing Aunt Esther to accept her beloved Leo Damarel as Esther reveals the Damarel feud. Esther recounts her own heartbreak with Conrad Damarel, claiming he betrayed her and left for a stranger, inflaming Vera’s defiant stance.
Vera recalls a hidden love while Aunt Esther confronts remorse over lost chances. A winter skating party ends with Lee’s confession to Esther, whose pride and temper led to unresolved heartbreak. Esther dies as Vera brings Lee to her bedside after a long, fateful wait.
The analysis extols apples for high phosphorus aiding brain function and nervous tissue, notes acids aid sedentary livers, and claims apples help digestion and counteract acidity. It references old Scandinavian myth and a recipe using roasted apples with wine and water for various ailments.
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes Mark Twain entertains Hartford dinner guests, especially English visitors, by delivering long premeditated humorous speeches. He rise without warning, speaks 15 to 20 minutes, aiming to amuse, and his success varies. Critics say humor cannot be forced and his acts keep his eccentric reputation alive.
The Aitch post office in Huntington County Pennsylvania derives its name from a quarrel among farmers Anderson Isenberg Taylor Crum and Henderson. Each owner contributed the first letter of his name to form Aitch novel name for the new post office. Frederick E Weatherby wrote Nancy Lee quickly while tutoring a pupil.
A narrative from the 1860s Rockies details luck and folly in mining camps. It recalls cases like Relf and the Last Chance, the Bowers White fortune, and Lorenzo White’s cursed gold cement. It ends noting fortunes of James Titus and the rise of a Western mining fiction impulse.
A concise survey traces finger rings from Tubal Cain myth through the Old Testament and Egyptian use, noting Judah’s signet, Pharaoh’s ring passing to Joseph, and mummies with rings. It covers Greek and Roman adoption, seals, ornamentation, and the evolution to multiple rings and varied metals.
A distressed mother with many children struggles to care for her sick and exhausted brood. Three year old Claire speaks softly of relief as she dies in bed, offering a final, tender hope that fewer children might ease the mother's burden. The scene, from Womans World, reflects parental strain and child compassion.
The New York World quotes a tale of near sighted men including Bowersox who fought with a life of delusions and bo gutter monsters before his wife removed his spectacles and cured him. Brayfogle is noted as a dreamer who could only see his childhood home when wearing his glasses at night.
In a Chicago private note a woman overhears two men in a restaurant. One remarks that a woman orders soup. the other notes men order pie. The exchange highlights etiquette, sting, and a shared truth about dining habits.
A detailed look at broom making shows small capitalists compete with wealthier rivals in a simple craft. It outlines how broom factories operate, costs to start, supply chains from Kansas corn to New York markets, and the trick of dyeing lower grade corn to imitate better stock. It also notes regional production centers and export patterns.
A prominent lawyer tells a New York Sun correspondent that years ago as Missouri attorney general he was in Governor Stewart's office when a convict was brought from the penitentiary to receive a pardon.
Senator Lafayett discusses American life in New York and Paris comparing democracy, rents, and the Hudson River with Paris life. He praises American liberty on Broadway and the republic as practiced, contrasting it with Parisian aristocracy. He also notes the St. Lawrence voyage as a beautiful alternative to the Mississippi.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers. Snappy lines about brains fashion and sleep preaching. marriage missteps. curious anecdotes about Bellamy profits and dental pain. a Georgia wedding fuss and a banker’s nerves. The items showcase humorous vignettes from period humor columns.
A New Englander recalls Old Hutch a frugal Vermont native in Washington and Chicago gossip. The story recounts a coat brag, a $40 order turning into a $35 profit loss for the Hutch family on the board of trade, with the old man unaware.
A Philadelphia Times fragment laments people dressed in their Sunday clothes as a social stir occurs in Boston, reflecting discomfort with fashion and propriety in public.
A German visitor learning English misnames architectural terms in a humorous way. She confuses transom and register while describing her comfort with a window above a door and keeping her feet over the transom. Her anecdotes highlight language learning quirks and cultural adaptation.
An artist named Vickars painted a banana reel on a sidewalk so naturally that the first passerby slipped and fell. Vickars remarked that it could not be natural if the first man tumbled to it.
Four men named Henderson are noted in Washington politics. David B. Henderson represents Town, John Henderson of North Carolina, and Thomas J. Henderson of Illinois, among others, shaping congressional action.
The poem recalls Major William Grupp a stingy man who saved every cent and clung to his routine. Neighbors recall his slow watch and odd habits including shingling his hair and scaring dogs. A landlord chloroformed him for rent and a pea-green envy death follows after a grappling hook. In a macabre mock autopsy a hickory nut is found where a heart should be.
A wife instructs a servant to boil a lobster for her absent husband. The maid struggles to cook it and jokes the lobster walked off the fire. The husband, impatient and hungry, finally learns the lobster was broiled and later discovers he is eating sardines and crackers instead.
At Louis XIV court a nobleman eager for status learns Spanish after the king asks if he understands the language. He trains hard, hopes for an ambassadorship, and finishes confident he can converse, only to be told he can read Don Quixote in the original instead.
A girl laments her father has gone and left her, fearing her mother will scold him when he returns. The fragment portrays a child seeking comfort from a mother while worried about parental absence.
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