03 Sep 1891
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1891
Page
1
The poem reflects on nightfall and celestial imagery as the countryside settles. Moonbeams and stars paint a tranquil landscape while animals and domestic life ease into rest, contrasting with the distant calls of night owls and the fading day.
Edna Fenton and Jackson Blake flee across the Dakota plains pursued by a dozen mounted Indians while a wagon train bound for the Black Hills sails toward danger. As the sun sets they evade capture and plan a nocturnal return to the train with hope of safety.
Edna Fenton is captured by Sioux while Jackson Blake turns traitor. A white rescuer frees her, revealing Blake’s duplicity as Black Jack. The pair escape on a hidden horse as dawn breaks and are welcomed by emigrants, with Nebraska Nat hailed as the plains’ finest.
Emigrant wagon train under threat repels attack as Indian warriors retreat with casualties. Two white men found. one identified as Jackson Blake Black Jack, a notorious outlaw. The train reaches destination safely and three months later Nathaniel Norton weds Edna Fenton.
A Pennsylvania woman tracked quilt stitches nearing 900000. US cemeteries hold 327179 graves most unknown. Ireland census shows 4,706,162 men and 2,317,076 women, down 468,674. Various notes on daily life, trade, and a bread crumb clock, with bees bearing a comrade to a grave and amputation nerve pain debated by a physician.
The article discusses screwdriver design for efficient screw driving, favoring a concave curved wedge to reduce obtuseness and slip. It also reports on telegraph usage in Europe, noting the United Kingdom leads per capita in messages in 1888 and 1889, with France and Germany lower, and quirky notes on frivolous-class contributions and London offices.
A New York woman running a used goods business found an unusual mail piece written in a masculine hand. The note requests two pairs of worn trousers to be sent to her address with odd phrasing and misspelled terms.
Mr Bowser recounts a comic misfit shirt experience, describing a mismatched fit and the plan to take the garment home for mending. The anecdote captures a lighthearted, relatable household moment.
Mr Bowser complains to Mrs Bowser about a shirt that fits poorly with a collar and buttonholes. She investigates and cannot find his nightshirt, joking about a headless household and the day shirt going on over it. The exchange reveals marital friction over domestic details.
The page blends a comic domestic scene in which Mrs Bowser teases Mr Bowser about shirts buttons and socks, highlighting mismanaged housekeeping, with scientific notes on deep earth heat, volcanoes and bore depths, plus travel humor and a Cleveland–like anecdote about German papers and farming prowess by Miss Antoinette Knaggs in Ohio.
A penniless young German widow in peasant dress arrived in New York aboard the Wieland claiming she is a wife, about to be a mother. Officials required bonds or a return to Hamburg. Her husband, missing in Hamburg, arrived days later, and a joyful reunion followed at the Barge Office. The couple, Abraham and Mary Samelinsk, plan to depart for the West together.
A peddler arrives with fly traps and asks for ordinary household items but faces a sharp nosedive from a wary kitchen mistress. She parries with absurd questions about impossible gadgets, then grants him only the empty yard as a parting gift while he bolts.
A dazed Gordon setter was struck by a wheel near the Ebbitt House. A 16 year old boy carried the injured dog to Dr. Stones, assisted by the doctor with arnica and bandages. A sympathetic dog owner’s companion canine cried by the scene before the patient was taken home. The event is praised as a touching display of human and animal kindness.
A Saturday Review piece extols Finns as upright and truthful under pressure. An observer recalls a Helsingfors merchant refusing a sale, a peasant returning excess fare, and the quiet dignity of honesty in Finnish life.
A fragment recounts a French anecdote about a litigant in Amiens, involving debt payment denial and a defense document. The narrator describes reading the defense, then pocketing a document, prompting protest about the act as an injustice, reflecting on preserving dignity and propriety in legal matters.
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