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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1887
Page
2
An Abilene Reflector item promotes child welfare with moral verses urging calm, bright days for youth. It calls on parents to shield children from sorrow, avoid anger, and trust in Heaven, highlighting youth as a sunlit age and warning against withholding joy.
A Brooklyn street con tells of a tall shabby man using pawn tickets to borrow cash. A gullible pedestrian loans $21.85 on a watch worth about $2. The fakir and pawnbrokers profit, then Nemesis closes in as the victim seeks police help.
A Parkersburg West Virginia letter recounts a colony of English sparrows at the county court house torturing a rival trespasser. The birds entangled the intruder with a thread neck loop, forced him from the nest, and he was strangled and left as a warning, an episode described as a second instance of ornithological justice in the city.
A Fifth Avenue Hotel gentleman describes enduring a “mad bath” with Fuller’s earth, a tub, currents from an electric battery, and later cold water shocks. The vivid account details the sensations as he sits in mud, is massaged, and returns for successive sessions, finishing with a final day of electric sponging and rubbing.
Major H. T. Brooks cites Dr. J B Lawes on soil fertility and city sewage as essential manures. He argues England’s blockaded by food ships cannot afford to waste sewage and must oppose soil depletion by restoring nutrients. The piece critiques current farming and urges widespread manure use to sustain yields.
A survey of offerings from American manufacturing jewelers highlights flower belt buckles twisted wire rings and oxidized silver toilet articles with heraldic motifs. New items include a penciled tiger-eye owl watch-charm silver beads and enamel flower decorated match-boxes plus modern hair pins pens and glassware inspired by shopper bags and daisies. A dyspepsia-friendly fruit dessert recipe accompanies the item listings.
An enterprising Calferal nurseryman, C W West of Fancher Creek, returns from a yearlong study trip to Europe and Asia Minor. He secured 11 000 Smyrna fig cuttings, 3000 wild figs, and 5000 table fig varieties, despite border bans. The voyage included England Malta Egypt and Smyrna with intensive packing house work and bribe assistance estimated over 500 dollars for the cuttings alone.
A humorous slice from Puck recounts a benevolent farmer trying to teach a red calf to drink milk. He berates the animal, uses a pail and harsh words, and ends by admitting defeat as the hired man eventually teaches the calf in six minutes.
Jesper Vliet, a fourteen year old Milwaukee native, guided a native chief to an encampment five miles north west while his wolf hunting exploits are recalled. At the camp he sings Auld Lang Syne and The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls to win the Indians’ favor, then is escorted home in a torchlight procession by the assembled savages.
The United States relies on foreign suppliers for gold lace and epaulets used on officer uniforms, with no domestic manufactory to meet demand for military and militia attire. Costs to establish a local plant are cited as prohibitive, leaving decoration supplies imported. The article includes a Central Park gossip interlude about a young widow and a man courting her.
A Washington photographer recalls posing Cabinet members and senators. Edmunds appears volatile, Blaine is a model sitter, Evarts frets over his nose, Sherman looks grim, Whitney favors modesty, Lamar aims for ethereal poise, Hoar smiles warmly, Sewell hides a bald spot, Fry seems villainous, Wade Hampton obsesses over his Dundrearies, Beck stands strongest, Randall commands presence, Morrison lacks expressiveness, and Speaker Christ is serious.
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