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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1890
Page
2
The Sumner Gazette presents a nostalgic piece titled The 8201s Grandmother, weaving memories of a grandmother who keeps pockets full of peppermint and pennies, watches over children with a gentle blessing, and stands as a comforting, enduring figure amid childhood mischiefs and schoolyard adventures. The poem voice evokes family warmth and timeless affection for a grandmother figure.
In the Pennsylvania oil days three young prospectors, with limited funds, strike a rich shallow well and confront greedy rivals. After a tense bargaining for the new oil, one agrees to sell but two stay firm, selling for ninety thousand dollars. They flee with the cash, leaving Brown and associates to discover a dry hole and a clever ruse involving seven barrels of oil. Brown pursues the trio but never recovers the funds, while the tale ends with a Western millionaire recalling a ground-hog moment and turning misfortune into renewed life.
A column warns of the hazards of baby wearing rings as young as six months noting eye gouging and skin injuries from rings with stones or twisted bands. It cites a jeweler refusing children’s jewelry and an Albany court alibi anecdote involving Mrs Robinson.
An English traveler aboard a Chicago to St. Paul sleeper shares nerves and humor with a mixed group of passengers including a circus agent and a Boston journalist. They recount highwaymen on the rails, cyclones, and a near panic as the train stops and watch for danger before reaching Omaha and beyond.
The house site should be slightly elevated with gravelly soil and no trees or graves nearby to shade it. Ground drainage must be thorough, and cellar walls and floors rendered moisture proof. Bright, open cellars with large windows, no dark chambers, and a top hall skylight for ventilation. Each room requires its own ventilation system, hot water or steam heating, and a kitchen hood vent to the chimney. Bathrooms isolated, pipes left open, floors of oilcloth or hard wood, tiling preferred.
The text argues mothers and fathers must actively oppose excessive home study in schools to curb what it calls a moral and educational erosion. It likens passive attitudes to danger and urges public sentiment to pressure school committees and boards. It warns against reliance on political or ignorant leadership and uses a Gulliver reference to stress that sound structure requires healthy physical condition.
A Sanremo Court of Inpesata decision anchors ownership of photographs to the original subject. The ruling follows years of litigation and impacts cases involving actresses and prominent women whose images have been used by tobacco firms and photographers. The piece notes possible future restraints on using customer negatives and highlights past abuses like Miss Rehan and Mrs Fitzgerald cases.
A rural district story depicts an ex-swell facing parental disapproval for marrying a young woman. Talks of divorce and a share of the estate surface as parents relent and offer blessing in exchange for ending the marriage. The wife boasts readiness to “do anything” for the son, recalling a past stint in a San Francisco book-bindery as proof of loyalty and resourcefulness.
A reflective Home Journal piece recounts a tragic love story set near a Southern city. A rich widower’s daughter falls for a neighbor’s son, a feud drives secrecy, and a fatal mistaken-identity shooting exposes devotion as peacemaker after the girl dies. The cemetery becomes a final resting place for the lovers and their families.
Walter M. Wolf describes the pinnated grouse or prairie chicken as a shy bird now spreading from the Western Reserve to Illinois Kansas Nebraska and eastern Colorado. The piece traces its nesting in Nebraska’s Pratt valley and upland behavior changes with habitat, warning about hunting pressure and urging enforcement of game laws.
A clerk at Victoria Hotel reports a well dressed man with a wild look demanded $25,500,000 from a messenger, claiming a valise containing the money is in the safe. The clerk, aided by Officer Connors, lured the suspect away and the man was committed for examination as potential insanity. The tale is followed by various short items on fortune telling, autographs, and light sketches.
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