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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1888
Page
2
Abilene Reflector prints a fragmentary verse from H.T. ItTs Co. about three children named Bobby Jim and a sailor father away at sea They describe summer visits to a sister church yard and flowers for their mother and for Jim They hope the Lively Jane returns and father will be back to them.
A hermit miner on snowshoes battles a mountain avalanche that buries his cabin. He survives by digging a tunnel, discovers two dead Native American warriors and loot, then raises a third, while enduring weeks of isolation, shifting weather, and a thaw before freedom near Virginia City. He logs daily notes, guards the scene, and ultimately escapes after nearly five weeks under snow.
Special correspondence from Sacramento describes the capital as a growing hub with fruit and citrus blooming in open yards. It notes the rail center role, Crocker Art Gallery, state fairs, and a climate of year round fruit production. Sacramento County spans 620000 acres with riverbank lands ideal for orchards and cereals, supporting thriving exports to San Francisco.
Fannie B. Ward describes a brutal late nineteenth century church rite in Mexico where nuns and monks self-flagellate within a cramped church setting. The desagravios ritual lasts thirty-five days yearly, with both sexes attending at different times, and women kneeling with arms extended in a painful cross pose.
Colonel Mike Brannigan recalls 1849 Argonaut era in San Francisco. He describes Townes owning the first hack, high pay for rides for Catherine Hayes, theater box prices, and Lotta Crabtree’s early performances. He laments changes, noting past abundance and class tensions, with anecdotes from the Barbary Coast to Maguire’s Theater. A local note adds farmers near Whatcom, Montana, struggle against deer and antelope ravaging crops.
A collage of short notes and anecdotes covers prisons and shows, hotel bill suits, a Boston deaf club, linguistic quirks, debt reduction figures for 1887, humorous quotes, a rattlesnake scarf novelty, animal pests in Australia and New Zealand, a Philadelphia grocer hoax, a sea born man who can read only the Bible, and U.S. Senate bills on Indian children schooling and marriage.
A Kansas City Star report outlines a banker’s method to identify counterfeit money by tactile and auditory cues. The cashier demonstrates folding between fingers to hear the bill’s texture and notes genuine notes differ from slick counterfeit paper.
A Chicago Times report recounts a pawnshop scene on South Clark near Polk where a man demanded a dollar for a set of false teeth valued at twenty five dollars in gold. The pawnbroker notes many odd pledges, from artificial legs to rare heirlooms, and reflects on the human need driving pawnshop loans and the limits of collateral.
The Swiss envoy Emile Frey born 1838 in Arlesheim rose from Union soldier prisoner at Gettysburg to Swiss National Council member and Canton Basel official. Now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, he is tall, blond bearded, widower with children in Switzerland, well regarded by colleagues.
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