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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1885
Page
2
A damaged line of text urges careful transcription of names and dates to ensure legible letters and figures. The fragment highlights evidence of faith and mentions an event on a single side of a page, stressing accuracy in details.
Fragmentary verse about a past love described as enchanting and fair. The speaker recalls a girl with golden hair, bright eyes, and graceful gait who wore a red village cart, shared moonlit strolls, and a hemlock knoll moment before the memory fades.
A long analysis tracing subterranean forces across Europe and the Americas, detailing 1480s and earlier quakes in Ischia Madrid Granada and Lisbon, and exploring theories of Earth's interior cooling, convection, and crustal movement. It notes the potential beneficial role of tectonics in mineral formation and continental drift, linking past shocks to present uplift and universal change.
A Cleveland Forward Herald account captures a tramp describing methods to obtain free transport on trains in bitter weather. He details riding bumpers and platforms, the danger of slipping, and brisk escapes from brakemen, plus a bakery racket as a scam to survive between jobs.
An Italian hermit famed for foretelling lottery numbers was mobbed by villagers after three numbers he named won prizes. Ten conspirators led by Tozzi jailed the prophet in a barn, beating him and leaving him for dead. Police tracked the assailants as trials loom.
A compilation of practical notes from Hartford Courant and other papers on farm care, fabric care, and home remedies. Includes advice on cleaning grounds with sheep, preventing color fade with borax, beeswax salves for chapped lips, evaluating cows, a pork cake recipe, humane horse-raising steps, calf milk feed substitute, lemon pudding recipe, making beef jelly for invalids, and a woolen dress patching method using thin mucilage and weights.
A rustic guide on hen nesting behavior and how to shape nest placement. It discusses hens seeking seclusion, the will to lay, and methods to compel cooperation through portable, well placed nests. A detailed box nest design is described for brood incubation and easy relocation.
The St Louis Republican notes the Cleveland administration will not imitate Republican precedents. It highlights Bayard and Whitney pushing Central America policy, Manning abolishing the fraud roll, Lamar reform efforts, and Teller’s criticism. The piece asserts a vigorous, independent Democratic approach distinct from Republicanism.
An editorial lament traces Republican scare tactics toward black voters and praises President Cleveland for promising equal justice. It argues that forged fears about slavery and lost rights failed as freedmen embraced Democratic governance, predicting improved race relations under the administration and a united South.
The Harrisburg Patriot notes the Day when Republican unity fell apart as Senators Morrill Aldrich and Sherman clash over tariff rates for wool. It argues the party is torn, lacking harmony or unity, and predicts further splits as the party’s remnants fade away.
The article explains practical methods to burn lime at home to improve heavy soils. It describes masonry and temporary kilns, brick-lined or rock arches, and conical above-ground fires. It covers construction details, drafts, firing duration, cooling, and weather considerations for profitable lime production on a farm.
The article argues that reducing offices will provoke complaint from office seekers but benefits the public. It notes about five million Cleveland votes and estimates many candidates expect rewards, yet asserts the aim is to fill remaining offices with competent, honest Democrats after pruning sinecures.
The Interiors secretaries and the Department of Jas- Gee push a cost saving reform. They order sale of private equipages and belongings, reducing supernumeraries to test efficiency. The move aims to restore morale across government by cutting lavish, nonessential perks and aligning needs with public service.
A Philadelphia Call excerpt features Mrs Gamps mocking a theory of punishment while Mr Gamps argues law protects society. The exchange cites Jinks, a bigamist jailed, to question whether imprisonment serves protection or punishment. A cartoonish aside ends with a note about respecting a man’s capabilities for weather bureau work.
A Maryland group of physicians endorses Red Star Cough Care as harmless and effective. They cite authorities including Baltimore Commissioner of Health Dr Samuel K Cox and Drs Fawcett Gross Morse Fiske Caldwell Gore and others. The ad claims the product is vegetable free and free from opiates or poisons and asserts extensive testing supports its safety and efficacy.
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