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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1884
Page
2
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A playful verse warns archers to choose gowns and bows with care in a lighthearted domestic satire. It lampoons social expectations, courtship, and the role of appearance in romance within a fanciful annuary club setting.
In a Scottish village a charming but wayward lad, Peter Mackey, woos three women at once: Mary Duthie, Mary Hine, and Jeanie Saunders. After a public, comical audit of his loves, the women bind him to marry Mary Duthie, then settle rival claims, yielding a cautious but loyal marital ending.
Excerpts urge thorough insect checks on bushes and strong ventilation in stables and barns. Advice covers improving stock, salt feeding for livestock health, vinegar pie recipe, hog profits from skim milk in creameries, hay curing and timing, polled cattle advantages, fritter tips using stale bread and eggs. Includes notes from The Journal Toronto Boston Globe Troy Times Prairie Farmer Massachusetts Ploughman N Y Post.
A fragment from All the Year Round discusses birds as symbols and fables. It contrasts pelicans feeding their young with blood and poetry’s meanings, notes swans and nightingales, and lampoons belief about Job’s turkey and eggs in a casual, antiquated voice. It ends with Captain Tom Scott earning 613,000 locating the President wreck.
Farmers struggle with terms like albuminoids and carbohydrates yet these describe nitrogenous and carbonaceous components of stock foods. Nitrogen forms muscle and milk, carbonaceous matter provides heat and fat. Balance ratios vary with work and weather to optimize gain and thrift.
The column compiles partisan quips and comment from Albany Argus the New York Tribune and Cincinnati Enquirer about Blaine Logan and party strategy. It references Durbin Ward Mulligan letters pleads Irish vote and editorial shifts, noting distrust of bribery and veto power and predicting state campaign dynamics.
A critical analysis of Republican claims that Civil War states propped up Democratic strength. It cites troop numbers, recent vote margins, and regional voting patterns to argue no single bloc dominates. The piece notes white voters lean Democratic by about three-fifths to two-fifths and mocks some contemporaneous anecdotes.
A long critical column accuses Republican partisans of shielding corruption in Treasury records. It cites Edmunds and Senate probes, recounts misstatements by the Register and Treasury, and argues for opening government books. It then reviews General Logan’s acceptance letter as crude, inconsistent, and weak in intellect compared with Blaine.
A Boston newspaper editorial analyzes the phrase American policy in the 19th century contest, arguing the term is misused to justify xenophobic and religious exclusion. It contrasts Blaine’s aggressive rhetoric with Clevelandian prudence, warning against foreign entanglements and domestic debauchery, and critiques jingoism as a tool of rulers.
A critical summary of James G Blaine with contemporary claims that the Maine governor who helped him rise died of mortification after Blaine settled state claims in Washington 1861 62 and Blaine later became a millionaire through claim work and lobbying. The piece accuses Blaine of corrupt practices, manipulation of committee assignments, and monetary bribery tied to railway securities and mineral stocks, ending with a harsh warning about his presidential ambitions.
A fiery 19th century speech denounces long party rule and calls for constitutional limits on power. The speaker contrasts Republican and Democratic legacies, cites election irregularities, and questions civil service reforms and wealth distribution. He warns against entrenchment and urges unity with independent Republicans to oust entrenched interests.
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