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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1885
Page
2
A tour of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard reveals heads of executed criminals, hangman gear, burglary tools, weapons, and eerie relics from famed cases. Highlights include John Platts’s rope, Peace’s implements, and grisly mementos from Wainwright and Dixblanc cases, with curios ranging from knuckle-dusters to infernal devices.
An elderly New Hampshire farmer, sixty-five years on his land, estimates about five hundred acres with mountain pasture, a brick cottage and two barns. He winters twenty-six head of cattle, sells milk to the Whitings at five cows daily, and doubtfully tracks exact herd size and costs. He values the place around six thousand dollars, raised a large family, served twice in court, and voted Northern loyally.
A century of milling advances shifts flour making from millstones to high tech rollers. Old low milling gives way to high milling and multiple break stages, yielding ultra fine white Extract flour and gluten loss, while cold blast and drum sifting fade as large Western mills adopt roller systems.
An explorer describes Formosa villages with rough huts, bamboo platforms, and smoke filled homes. He notes quick interactions with women and children, their dress, pipes, and a playful, grotesque dancing display before ascending to a scaffold of camphor branches bearing the remains of Chinese raids.
A London Queen article criticizes self centered Englishmen in public for pushing aside women and smoking near them. It argues polite behavior is uneven and contrasts private courtesy among friends with hostility toward strangers. It notes lingering old fashioned chivalry in social conduct and mentions a Grand Retreat membership figure.
In Lincoln County Maine a retired undertaker paints his shop with rainbow colors to preview coffin hues for clients. Light blue suits children and orange suits the elderly. A man once ordered a coffin for himself in Augusta, then rivaled his wife, causing a divorce feud. The tale ends with a note on plans turning to grief.
The scene in a California barber shop spirals into a comic altercation over the phrase How's things with patrons prompting a dramatic outburst by Citizen Tiffany. The exchange veers from casual greeting to volatile irritation as Tiffany menacingly confronts the jokey caller.
In Mose Schaumberg’s grounds Levi Schwindelmeyer pursues Miss Rebecca Schaumberg at a New Year stroll. Mose roars a warning saying he sees the boy with his own eye and the scene ends with a shriek and the boy vanishing over a fence. Schwindelmeyer has not been found. Mose claims the boy’s goose gun is overdue for a peach tree.
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