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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1890
Page
3
In the Children’s Corner a vignette titled The Sensive Dressing of Some Rich Meo Plow Children and Amusing the Life Folks depicts discontented Clara crying beside a Newfoundland dog named Carlo in ragged finery. She laments many things wrong in the world while recalling a toy plow tail and a desire to ride on Carlo’s back.
A mother keeps two children busy on a long trip with cardboard letters to form words, paper dolls, and simple sewing outfits. The article contrasts cheerful travel behavior with the lavishly dressed children of the era, noting Pauline Astor wears black street wear while at home her outfits are finely made and meticulously cared for.
A young teacher narrates spending a night in a pine-branch tent with Joe a lumberman in a newly settled Canadian settlement. They observe sap boiling for syrup and hear Joe’s anecdotes as the night unfolds amid pine scent, stars, and reflective thoughts about Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman.
A Detroit Free Press fragment recounts a night in the woods with Toe and Joe near a sap kettle. A wildcat looms from a tree, darts, and flips into the boiling sap as Joe and the narrator react with calm and quick thinking. The animal dies and the kettle is discarded.
A plain woman in a bonnet sits among awaiting passengers at the Pennsylvania depot in Jersey City. She sharpens a pocket knife to treat corns on her left foot while explaining her method and joking about hens and a hundred dollars saved.
In a public school classroom Professor Hailes asks children how a nine member family would divide a pie. A bright boy answers an eighth, noting the mother would not receive any. The Albany Journal reports the exchange highlighting a child’s quick wit about fairness and sharing.
A Stanley article in Serthaer recounts a vow made in darkest distress seeking divine aid. Nine hours later triumph arrives as a crimson flag and crescent banner appears, revealing a long-lost rear column amid relief for weary white and black companions. Critics question these reverent claims amid wartime hardship.
The piece condemns churchgoers who sing read or rise with indifference, deeming their disengagement a dishonor to God. It urges worship with spirit and alert attention, reflecting shared joy in going to the house of the Lord as the Psalmist proclaimed. It appeals to readers of Christian Inquirer for earnest fellowship.
A long reflection on conscience and punishment follows as a Scottish clergyman named Rev. William Dow faces trial for heresy. He recounts past wrongs, including displacing a widow, and accepts deposition as righteous. The piece pivots to a skeptical broker’s dialogue about ideal preachers and self critique, urging personal reform over religious posturing.
The Lewiston Journal recalls a Maine physician who was carried over a swollen river by a man who refused payment. The ferryman urged, Let it go, I shall want you to do the same for me someday, such as a tooth pulled. The doctor urged him to sit and collect the bill anyway.
Mrs Race and Mrs Riverside trade witty barbs at a Chicago townsman. The exchange highlights refined dining, napkin with gold chain, cuff pins and a silver bellows in a humorous street scene from Puck.
A mummy wrapping yielded a pea that germinated after soaking and planting, illustrating ancient Egyptians’ belief in preserving life through the dead. The piece reflects on how seeds, wheat kernels, and other life-forms were kept for future generations, praising Egypt's economic morality and reverence for honorable deeds.
An editorial from the Washington Post recounts Virginia Knox’s deception by a Count de Montereole and argues that many American women seek noble titles over honest work. It condemns gewgaws and social pretensions, urging readers to beware foreign adventurers and avoid sacrificial pursuits of status.
A York Sun item recounts a Georgia church funeral where the bereaved husband scolds a Black attendee for overemotional display. The exchange centers on Moses being told to sit in back and refrain from public grief to honor Julius Carter’s status as the widower’s bereaved partner.
Delarue describes the 1833 Amphitheatre of Clamart built on former cemetery grounds. Four halls hold 26 tables each where cadavers are dissected by students, while bodies are processed, pickled, and stored for study. Fragments are swept up by a porter and eventually incinerated as “equivalents” in Crematorium.
A man undergoes a tooth extraction under gas at a dental hospital. After removal the nurse notes the pupil failed to dilate, yet the patient regains consciousness. The dentist jokes that they checked the left eye, and the patient quips that the joke gasped at his left eye, ending with a groan and grin.
An advertisement credits Hostetter's Stomach Bitters with preventing and curing malaria and fevers by restoring biliary regularity. It claims improved digestion, relief from dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism, and nervous debility, and recommends the product for travelers and emigrants to malarial regions.
The text traces how various ancient peoples and medieval cultures carried valuables. It notes the Hebrew pouch, Roman hand-beg and knot tied toga folds serving as pockets, matrons hiding items in the strophium, Charlemagne’s traveling pouch, Saxons with purees, and Normans with the aulmouiere purse hung from the girdle, a fashion revived in recent years.
A collage of medical ads and anecdotes spans Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription claim of woman’s cure, sarsaparilla as protection against spring illness, New York milk quality pressures, a giant No. 32 shoe tale for a clergyman, and a rifle corps boast. The piece weaves consumer quackery, public health notes, and odd local color from small-town America.
A Kansas traveler tale tells of Nat Weatherby who buys a coffin for his ailing wife thinking it an upgrade. She rejects the plain box, recovers, and leaves him with the coffin, proclaiming he is a “mighty pore trader” in a humorous crossroad store scene.
The article describes how pine forests in the Rocky Mountains burn with tinder like ground fuel from needles cones and resin, ignited by camp flames or cigarettes. Once started, fires spread rapidly with wind, consuming century old timber and leaving black monuments that take years to replace.
A Harper's Young People tale features a five year old boy and his mother as they visit a house where the woman jokes about buying him. The boy replies that his mother would not sell him because there are five children and she would not break the set. The toy quiz ends with the child asserting the family would not part with him despite the woman’s plea.
The article notes Krupp’s expanding industrial empire at Essen with worker counts rising to about 20,900 and many living in firm housing. It also mentions a London Truth saga in Leeds where two fox terriers were trained to fetch a ball for a prize, the faster dog finishing in 17 minutes 4 2 5 seconds. It ends by recommending Dr Bull’s Worm Destroyers for children with worms.
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