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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1893
Page
2
A first person plea from Jack Black urging fixes to rural infrastructure. He laments rough country roads that ruin tires and hinder travel to church and store, notes farm success and family labor, and ends by urging government action to improve roads in a Columbus year.
A Chicago to New York journey includes a midnight scare as a spectral woman aboard the train predicts danger. The engineer recalls a past voyage where a shadow figure appeared near Rock Creek, only to be revealed as a moth illuminated on the headlight frame that saved 250 lives.
A detective questions a storekeeper about a break in at Katzenhefter's shop on a night in question. The proprietor dicts a detailed confession of the thief, listing stolen items including a silk hat boots fur coat and silk underwear and orders a townwide printout in bold type. The narrative labels Money as a great scoundrel amid various alleged bad dealings.
A Newark Daily Advertiser note recounts two antique papers, the 1728 New England Weekly Journal from Boston and the 1783 New York Morning Journal. It highlights front matter, local and foreign news, burials, ads, and early efforts to improve the press, plus a dramatic 18th century tale of a boy's rescue on a winter night in Busseto.
A fragmented passage blends a Chicago millinery scene with a tale of Dora and Flora on a shopping day and a sketch of Verdi’s impoverished rural beginnings. Verdi, nearing eighty, is noted for his twenty first opera as a child prodigy growing up in Roncola and Busseto, learning from the village organist Batstocchl.
The text details a Malaylike ritual of visiting in Siberia where guests arrive by chance, share tea from saucers, and nibble sugar while the host serves vodka and cakes. A formal after-visit exchange catalogs all consumed items, confirming equality of offerings and sparing quarrels.
A Lahore correspondent reports on a scheme using yellow and dark red to shield the body from sun exposure. He recounts five years of extreme sun, noting no sun fever when protected, while lapses led to illness. Friends testing the method reported similar results.
In Woodbury New Jersey the Ashley bottle making machine faces hands free operation tests proving it can produce two bottles per minute with one man and three boys supervising two machines. The exhibit at Harry Davis’s Germantown store also notes a perpetual motion hoop drawing curious crowds.
The piece traces the rise and fall of hoop skirts from 1856 Paris to 1888 bans, detailing the three-decade dominance of steel-supported crinoline and the shift away as fashion power moved to manufacturers and designers. It notes Eugenie’s opposition, the role of trades in fashion, and hints at a future U-turn while cautioning against slavery to exaggerated ideals. The text also mentions a proposed satirical profession of cutter-outs and social schemes for arranging engagements.
The text discusses human ingenuity improving nature, citing French tank cultivation of Channel oysters since spring 1890. Reported results claim tank-reared oysters reach larger size and better flavor than wild cousins along the coast. It imagines potential quality gains comparable to cultivated strawberries.
A recent visitor to Flowery Land warns that without an alphabet the student must learn every character individually. Previous study only provides familiarity with the distinctive form that separates each character from others, so the repeating task continues for thousands more.
The text notes that Chinese education focuses on reading and writing with a few history, moral science, and mythology scraps. Pupils study daily from age five until fifteen or twenty. It states that natives lack mastery of all characters and foreigners cannot fully master reading.
A Boston professor famed for abstract theory faced a tiny class as students lounged and dozed. One long snore broke the spell, the lecturer dropped his glasses, left the room in surprise, and never returned to that course.
Two ladies enter a school handling a jacqueminot rose that charms every child who admires it. The flower is shared as a prize of wonder, while a later Parisian political crackle and a math puzzle about selecting a word from a random page unfold in the same piece.
An 19th century South Carolina tale recalls Pompey Smash a former slave turned trial justice and a judge joking about charging jurors. The piece contrasts this with a note on railroad workers, counting 784 000 employed and 530 million passengers carried last year with 292 fatalities.
A Fulton Market dealer explains Albany origin of the term Albany beef for sturgeon. He cites Albany as early hub of sturgeon fishing, the practice of tethering live fish as river cattle, and the shift of sturgeon trade to Hudson Lake Erie and St Lawrence streams. He notes Oswego rope-tethering and export of sturgeon meat and eggs to Michigan Canada and Russia.
In Africa Sir Samuel Baker's expedition features Mahomet a dragoman facing constant claims of kinship and opportunists while a companion warns him about theft of spoons as silverware. Separately a Washington negro bears a lightning scar from a thunderstorm with a vine like mark tracing down his back, another man loses shoe soles in the shock. New York Sun.
A door harp decorates entrances among artists with metal balls striking strings for soft music. Women paint and gild the toy, though plain function appeals more. A Hughlandman quips on his wife as proud, small, ill natured and a thief, yet acceptable.
A collection of aphorisms and anecdotes on faith, morality, and public life. Notable references touch on true religion, honesty, and the dangers of pride, followed by historical sketches about Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby. Also includes a parable on trout memory and domestic advice for newlyweds.
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