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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1885
Page
2
A cryptic note discusses someone taking a paper from a port and facing court scrutiny for refusing to deliver or remove newspapers. It mentions pay, subscription status, and penalties for not handling newspapers, reflecting a legal or procedural stance on delivery obligations.
Fragmented OCR text of a poem about Little Orphant Annie, with garbled lines and names. Mentions orphans, goblins, chores, and children teased by an adult voice. Contains multiple distorted phrases and mixed punctuation.
In a heated scene Tom Du Cour contends with his rival Bingium over Mollie Miller and Aunt Slap Derrick, recounting childhood avalanches of luck and failure. Dayton, Tom’s ally, senses a strategic moment as the two men scheme amid mollified ladies, dress, and a looming contest for the diamonds.
During a morning excursion Mollie nearly falls from a moving train after grabbing the car platform rail. Tom Du Cour rescues her, is hailed a hero, and a romance blooms amid family tensions and a staged marriage plan. Mollie belatedly accepts Tom’s devotion as illness and social schemes swirl around them.
Opinion piece argues farming is a safe, steady, modestly profitable vocation. It contrasts farming with stock market speculation, praising contentment, gradual wealth, and regular savings. It asserts most farmers prosper and few fail, urging readers to stay with farming.
A Detroit Free Press tale describes a Tennessee River town barber shop confrontation. Sam confronts Bill Peters with a public safety item while claiming to be Peters step-son, vowing violence if provoked. Peters asserts Sam’s mother’s marriage ties and ejects him with a threat, ending in Sam retreating in humiliation.
From Prof. Gonyes Lecture in Albany Journal this piece mulls marriage as destiny and social practice. It jokes about looks, courtship, divorces, and the lure of wedding bells, urging care, financial steadiness, and mutual fitness before tying the knot. It notes marriages and funerals share page space and warns against easy divorces.
The Canadian Government uses a galvanized iron telegraph pole for northwestern prairie lines. It is 1 inch top diameter, 2 inches bottom, under fifty pounds, set with claw plates and earth packed to ground level for immediate stability. A heavy No 6 wire tested with maximum strain without moving the pole.
A South Boston man constructed two houses side by side with one furnace in the shared cellar. He routed hot air to his own home via flues, leaving the other residence unable to stay warm, forcing higher coal costs for the neighbor. An empress irons away under winter woes.
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