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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1884
Page
3
A fragmented Abilene Reflector piece recounts a memoir of partnership and labor, praising a wife’s toil and a firm’s rise through trade. It recalls a clerkship turning into a prosperous venture, with a silent partner and later rebranding to Graves and Whwally, and contrasts hardship with the allure of wealth and domestic stability.
Aboard the Eagle, Captain Blackett and crew rescue a baby found with a dead mother in a wreck. The narrator, Mr. Roband, tends the infant, named Jimmy, and the crew forge a touching bond. After days at sea the baby dies, and a solemn funeral is held at sea with the crew mourning the loss of the tiny survivor.
A Pennsylvania Farmer column argues that precise, workmanlike farming boosts profits. It urges recording acre profitability, identifying unproductive land, and applying thorough, businesslike practices. It contends success lies in completing productive work and making every outlay pay returns.
The call for a National Republican convention outlines issues such as elevating American labor protecting home industry and free popular education. It criticizes labor rhetoric as humbug and argues tariffs and convict labor policies harm wages and industry. The piece frames reform as essential and targets the Republican stance as void of real plans.
The American Register critiques Republican strategy since their rise to power, arguing they hijack issues of the “bloody shirt” and imperiled “business interests” to frighten voters. It suggests post election relief negates these stories, labeling them a last-ditch dodge by a party clinging to power.
The Washington Post criticizes General Mahone for urging unique recognition within the Republican party. It notes the November 6 ballot defeat in Virginia and a negative balance of federal patronage, while condemning party elders for ignoring his services and martyrdom.
The South Carolina cases collapsed for lack of evidence against Democratic participants in Congressional elections. Judge Bond, a Republican, presided as juries excluded Democrats, yet no convictions emerged. The report argues the prosecutions were partisan and costly, reducing Union League influence and exposing dark tricks used to build Republican majorities. Also noted are a Carlisle boy’s nicotine death and Yazoo County’s racial demographics.
An account describes the Honolulu leper detention hospital on the city’s outskirts, its civil death status, crowded care, and harsh government discipline. It recounts a voyage to Molokai, separate family heartbreak, a woman swimmer meeting the steamer, and the Molokai settlement’s setting beneath Kalawai village with lava ravines and cliffs.
Fritz Bormann a longtime San Pedro resident returned from Puget Sound after an inebriated mistake. Believed friends lured him onboard a schooner, he woke aboard bound for the Sound, escaped before reaching the lumber region, and lodged no formal complaint though condemning the method used to subdue him.
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