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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1890
Page
3
The Duchess, famed for Buckingham Palace diamonds, runs an industrial school for women and girls at Maynooth Ireland. She oversees classes and works to uplift the peasants, who greatly admire her efforts alongside the nuns.
A Chinese Embassy secretary, famed for flattery, tells a woman his preferred virtue in women is domesticity. She probes about social movement and divorce. He quips that if his country had a woman like her, all divorce causes would disappear.
The article notes women seizing leadership and professional roles in Russia including Alexandra Ilyne becoming Starosta in Kurazeff, Dr Nazie Koudoiar practicing medicine in Odessa, and women hired as telegraphic clerks on the Transcaspian Railroad. It recounts Chicago philanthropist Miss Gary temporarily swapping into a tailor shop to aid Mary Anderson, illustrating women’s expanding agency, with reflections on dressmakers shaping social life.
The piece laments dressmakers' grip on social life and church rules as women must don new dresses for events and confirmations. It blends satire with notes on economic labor by French women, highlighting household duties, dressmaking, and wives supporting families, then shifts to a Vienna vagrant beauty linked to Makart's Diana Huntress and a railroad tale ending with humor about a trestle rescue.
A Belfast Lough incident shows a seagull drowned after a kite string fouled its flight, John Sharper style advice on child self respect, a humorous wasp essay, and Wattie’s country visit with farmer Martin. The tales blend youth morals, rural life, and playful country adventures with vivid local color.
In a Detroit Free Press fragment a speaker recalls a country visit with Arthur, rowing on a river to an old mill, collecting water lilies, and nights in the kitchen where Mr. Martin leads singing and then prayer. The scene includes gifts for Jimmy, baskets of food, and a wish for recovery or escape to the country.
A Civil War era dream recounts President Lincoln foreseeing a notable event after a cabinet meeting where he uttered Let us proceed to business The dream features a great river and a boat with Lincoln drifting Then aide Edwin Stanton remarked on the President’s marked change in bearing The other cabinet members note the omen and the President is shot that night A second item highlights Mrs Marie Antoinette Nathalie Pollard opening a broker office for women in the Consolidated Exchange Building at 60 Broadway Pollard aims to join the exchange and notes resistance from male floor traders She is a widow of E A Pollard a temperance speaker and author with a wartime escape in disguise and a lineage claim to Countess de Large The column also contains a humorous vignette about a cautious village parson and a flirtatious woman and a brief traveling trunk joke The publication uses a breezy late 19th century tone with sensational social notes and brief human-interest sketches
A Philadelphia Times report describes a small green card used by the Post Office Department to test carrier reliability. The card records insertion and removal times, and if it reappears with the mail or is missing, it signals whether the carrier handled the box properly. Cards can be placed where complaints exist or against efficient carriers, risking serious trouble for missed boxes.
The passage outlines the duties of a railroad track walker and his twelve hour shift with two torpedoes and a hammer for safety. It then discusses human frailty, linking liver and bowels disorders to improper remedies and endorsing Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It weaves in comic snippets about manners, mischief, and small legal and social vignettes from various notices and jokes.
Jackson Thomas of Newport Arkansas married a much younger woman forty years ago. They divorced, each remarried, both lost spouses, and by coincidence their lives retraced similarly. now aged 61 he weds again to a bride 6 years his junior. The unlikely reunion closes a long cycle of love and loss.
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for colds with sample bottles offered. A Cordele, Ga., sighting describes a peculiar three-foot yellow striped reptile with fishlike teeth, believed a hybrid of snake and fish. Also noted: Dominion farms seen as costly luxuries that deter modest farmers from pursuing agriculture.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as an equal remedy to purify blood and invigorate the liver. It claims lasting effects, appetite stimulation, and prevention of fevers when taken at the first signs of weariness, urging readers to start NOW.
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