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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1893
Page
3
The English soldiers in India showed a reduction from 69 deaths per 1,000 in 1859 to 15.81 in 1886 and 14.84 in 1888 due to housing, food, water, and clothing improvements. Also notes Marseilles harbor walls once famed by Dumas for Monte Cristo are now covered with futographs of visitors.
A collection of light anecdotes and quips from various trades and figures. Jokes about preachers lawyers doctors editors and editors dry or airy feature snippets of playful banter and mild social satire.
A dense collage of snatches from magazines and papers, including witty exchanges on fashion and manners, humorous tavern banter, light quips about Irish politics, and brief notes on cultural topics. It threads of courtship, gossip, theatre, and domestic humor across a collage of names and snippets.
A religious column urges vigilance and steadfast faith, citing Pompeii’s sentinel as a moral example and urging Christians to endure hardship without rest. It highlights humanity’s aid to the helpless, calls for timely relief to famine victims, and notes relics and remains of the Apostles with reflections on faith and trust in God.
The gold-brick king George W Post once famed for his suave confidence schemes and high society hospitality was sentenced to twenty years in a penitentiary for swindling Albany's John M Peck out of 800000. His partner Tom O'Brien had a long, evasive run through courts and continents before similar fates or escapes, but Post now faces prison at age 42 while his storied career may end behind bars.
The President receives $4,166 monthly via installments from the Treasury. A special messenger delivers the draft to the White House, where the President endorses it as a routine draft. The process is noted as standard for government pay, including Supreme Court officials.
A collection of anecdotes about haunted locomotives and a headless fireman, including a rebuilt engine that proved dangerous, ghost sightings aboard trains, and a conductor who hesitated before finishing a doomed run. Also notes on Mr William Black and a noisy family, plus reflections on simple funerals and other era oddities.
The advertisement warns readers not to misdiagnose lung trouble and promotes Rew’s Gennan Cova and Kripsey Cure as a safe cough remedy. It claims the product has no poison, treats all excretory organs, and is available in small twenty five cent and large fifty cent bottles at every drugstore.
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