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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1885
Page
6
A fragmented reminiscence piece titled Ethio mani a Vera de Societe honors a piano playing girl. It laments lost songs and dances as the banjo and fiddle echo through memory, recalling darkey tunes, tambourine lessons, and a fading trumpet of earlier music culture.
A serialized set of letters from East Park and Inverness describes Mrs Alice Harwood of New York meeting Mr Brantly Wyndham on a Colorado ranch trip. The pair fall for each other amid park drives, island dinners, and mountain scenes, with plans to wed after a shared future sailings.
The article argues that neglected wild lands near cities, though rough and unproductive now, can yield tenfold value with careful timber and forest planting. It cites hickory, white oak, ash, beech, chestnut, black walnut, pine and other species, and notes capital, time, and planning are key to turning wastelands into productive forests and hoop poles markets.
A caricatured elder, Old Squire Haggleson, attends an opera reading the show as a singin show not music. He questions what counts as music and mocks tin clothes, the singing, and the audience’s reactions while debating whether the performance is grand opera or mere noise.
A patchwork of items from the era notes the Washi Monument’s claimed endurance of 10,000 years, Sutlej’s swift descent in British India, an auction where a $5,000 play sold for two dollars, pithy quips on poker, new paper bottles, Dan Rice’s fading Circus, a Massachusetts safety paper for bank notes, dialect sketches, and social commentary on poverty and living costs.
The Boston firm Fashionaire showcases flexible bell crowned hats in three heights with curls and new stitched cloth styles. Popular colors include nutria, blue, browns, wines, and nutrias. The tape square crown and tweed checks drive demand, signaling a staple style for years ahead per Tater and Furrier.
An 1880s column argues beekeeping can supplement farm revenue and suit farmers. It cites E R Cook of Owossa growing bees from a few colonies to fifty sixty and beyond, noting profits rising with two apiaries four to five miles apart and potential yields of fifty pounds per colony. It also mentions a skilled keeper tending up to two hundred colonies with help in peak season.
A fox tries to steal a woodchuck’s den amid a blizzard, is thwarted by local boys who trap the fox, and a moral about not playing both sides. The second tale features a boastful bee who jokes about being paid to travel and complain, prompting a moral about future niceness and self interest.
A German clerk on his honeymoon in Italy sent 42,0008 to his employers, then deposited 40,0008 with his wife to guard it while he visited Monte Carlo. He planned to avoid gambling but went to the tables anyway. the wife gambled away all the funds and reportedly leapt into the sea. A separate note mentions a letter addressed to Buffalo, New York, found in a local Post Office.
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