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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1893
Page
2
Poem from Harper's Bazar by Margaret EK Sangster laments delayed aid and fading hope. It contrasts 늠 sorrow with a missing response, mourning a heart unspoken, a deathly ache, and the scarce comfort when help arrives after despair.
Mrs Bascomb plans for a short trip to New York but a burglar aims for her husband’s money. A trussed folding bed serves as a trap, trapping the intruder after a late-night confrontation. Police trap the burglar, who is jailed for five years, and Mrs Bascomb learns a late-night letter ritual is not safe.
A suburban woman recalls a terrible day when a new servant misplaces the clothesline and nearly causes harm. The girl climbs a ladder to reach a trolley-wire, prompting the narrator to intervene just in time to prevent a fatal accident. The exchange ends with the servant's anxious promise to fix the setup.
Sioux chief Sitting Bull and two warriors attend Guerin's Fargo playhouse in a tale of ambition and risk. Theatre backers pay high prices to seat the party as an auction crowd watches a trapeze act end with a cannon gag. The Indians tense and shocked, then flee toward safety, reshaping a night of sensational spectacle in 19th century Dakota.
The article explains that sick headache often stems from a disordered stomach and accumulating noxious substances in the body. Overeating or a shift to sedentary work can overload digestive organs, leading to irritable digestion, headaches, and general digestive disruption.
An 1891 notice discusses quinine’s wide medical use from fever to malaria and notes underproduction of cinchona trees. It warns that rising prices could curb demand, while rivals could replace quinine if costs climb. The piece argues doctors overuse and that planters have neglected groves due to cheap prices.
An overview traces Bluebeard’s tale to Perrault and links to possible real predecessors. It notes Giles de Retz, Marquis of Laval, alleged killer of six of seven wives, and Count Conomar, Brittany lieutenant, whose cruelty and attempted murder of Tryphyna sparked salvation by friends. Truth remains uncertain, blending myth and fact.
The text notes a European traveler in Japan suffers nervous and respiratory strain from humidity and rapid temperature changes. It explains increased respiratory movements, reduced oxygen, and lowered haematosis, leading to poor nutrition and a range of ailments from rheumatism to anemia. It urges spending summers in northern, drier regions like Yeso or northern Nippon to avoid climate harm.
A historical note traces the YMCA from its London origin in 1844 by George Williams to a Montreal founding in 1851 and a Boston start in the United States. It notes the 1854 first inter national convention, eight world conferences, and current global reach with 4,651 associations and about 227,000 members in the United States and Canada.
The Hartford Courant notes city residents struggle to grasp a new exercise movement. The piece highlights confusion over a textbook discussion of physical culture and its place in everyday life, reflecting a noisy but curious urban audience.
In a grand saloon a rumored millionaire’s sale turns strange as a ragged tramp, admitted by audience disdain, sits at a grand piano and improvises a cascade of melodies. He performs Beethoven to Wagner, ends with Home Sweet Home, then collapses. The crowd, stunned, learns he has “gone home” as the auctioneer calls for help.
Judge Gary notes a prevailing sentiment among workers that force may be used to control employer property during disputes. He cites the Chicago Anarchists of 1986 and their call for wage workers to adopt a deadly method as a warning against future upheaval, linking it to aims of destroying government and social bonds in the name of anarchy.
A Jersey City man catalogs over 3000 doorknobs as a museum collection. Nebraska features a hair sample collector of infamous criminals. Philadelphia houses a collector of cast-off horseshoes and their street prize use. Boston notes a rewired artifact from a demolished building with historical tagging. New Orleans reports a local collector in residence.
The New York Evening Telegram notes firms pay premium for florals as spring displays take shape. Smilax and orchids are favored. Narcissus and hyacinths rise in demand. Roses dominate seasonal decor with Marechal Nell, Pearl, La France and other varieties priced up to four dollars a dozen in peak markets.
Twenty five million dynamite cartridges are produced yearly by three French factories, with Isleton Switzerland’s pioneer plant maintaining skilled safety. Separate piece notes churches’ fortress like towers used as stores and beacons, protecting valuables and guiding travelers through troubled eras.
A fragmented compilation with a humorous anecdote about a speaking spouse and a man searching drawers for a tongue, followed by Edward Everett on education and a note from Dean Stanley about Calvary. The piece mixes comic lore with educational idealism and a linguistic note on Calvary.
A National Review account describes Sicilian peasant life with marriage by financial arrangement, limited mobility for girls, and a dual economy of town and countryside. Men wear black and white clothing while women favor bright colors. the evil eye superstition persists even among the upper classes, with charms deemed essential for safety.
The passage lists annual timber usage across sectors: 100,000 cords for shoe pegs, 300,000 cubic feet for lucifer matches, 500,000 cords for lasts and boot trees, 500,000 more for tool handles, 2,000,000 cords to bake bricks, 800,000 trees for telegraph poles plus 300,000 more repairs, 75,000 acres’ thirty years growth for railroad ties, 343 million dollars to fence all U S railroads with 15 million yearly repairs, plus 912,000,000 for packing boxes and over 100,000,000 for wagons and implements.
The excerpt presents Robertson's vision of home as the safe, intimate center where hearts unite, masks drop, and tenderness flows freely. It contrasts domestic warmth with worldly suspicion, noting home as the sole refuge for shared joys and mutual care, while warning that laziness weakens souls.
A stream of religious maxims and reflections on faith, virtue, and human conduct. It stresses humility, gentleness, neighborly love, and service in small duties while warning against pride, hardness of heart, and hypocrisy. The piece blends biblical references with practical moral instruction for believers.
Tiffany experts and others dispute Idaho diamond finds while Herman Vreisl ander of Amsterdam, visiting New York, asserts three stones sent from Boise City are genuine. He describes the Idaho stones as rare packwatles with bluish aquamarine tint likely to polish whiter than Jagersfontein and hints at Idaho origin.
A Sunday church incident in which an usher spotted a physician summoned in the vestibule and the doctor left promptly to attend a patient, followed moments later by a renowned undertaker who visited for a separate matter, drawing smiles from the congregation. Meanness in a boy often develops into worthlessness.
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