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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1883
Page
6
A terse speaker reflects on boasting after a simple win. The narrator insists skill was minimal and admits no shame in showing the feat, yet questions who they are to boast. The piece closes with a self-questioning tone about humility and pride.
Two young physicians Dr. Wilfred Atkinson and Dr. Frederick Read meet at a city asylum where Read longs to study insanity. Read befriends a pale, ill young woman in a summer house, whose apparent clarity masks a hidden infirmity as she wards off his questions and a nurse directs her back to her room.
Fred learns that Miss Bessie Atkinson is his sister not a patient, and he must confess his love cautiously. Dr. Atkinson reveals the complication, accepts the match, and the siblings plan the future. The passage blends a quiet love story with a veterinary science digression on scarlet fever in horses.
In a humorous digression a Philadelphia Lying Club president tells of a woman in a town a hundred miles away described with grand feminine epithets and music talent. The tale ends with banter about a mayor's $10,000 annual salary in New York City.
A Burlington Hawkeye excerpt argues that domestic disorganization and procrastination waste time and harm children’s development. It notes people rest during tasks, miss planning opportunities, and delay meals, leading to habitual tardiness and chaotic homes. It warns that without early habits of systematizing work, individuals fail to compete with better organized peers.
An American tourist debates with a companion in England about why English people look healthier. The exchange riffs on Prof Huxley’s claim that roast beef and red clover, aided by bumblebees and field mice, influence complexions through old maid country life, ending with a quip about where old maids come in.
The River Plate Bay defalcations renew questions about director responsibility to oversee banks. A Banque de Belgique clerk stole £920,000 over years, and a Belgian Senator on the board was blamed for lax audits. Deponents and borrowers trust directors named in prospectuses, not unnamed clerks, so directors must guard against such failures. Also, a Tivoli man found a hollowed wood piece containing coins during wood cutting.
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