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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1887
Page
7
A nostalgic piece evokes a Shadowtown ferry at day's end. A childlike ride in a rocking chair drifts away from the world as lights shimmer, rain taps the window, and a quiet anchor lowers into the dusky scene near a calm shimmering lake.
Arthur and Ken crave a dime to buy a toy cannon at a five cent store. They disobey their mother and father by taking a cheaper barber, spend the money, and hide the cannon. Conscience awakens, they confess nothing, and their father decides to give the cannon to a good child, Johnny Carr, while the brothers deliver it themselves after a morning barber trip to Mr Shaw's.
A New York girl kept two doves. After a male dove was killed by a train at seven each morning the surviving bird mourned, searched the locomotive, and followed the Pacific express daily for weeks. It waited at a mile post, returned to its nest, and repeated the ritual in a touching display of longing. Children’s Friend.
In 1883 Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway began from Hyderabad India and won a tiger hunt while the scene inspired awe at the undulating ground littered with massive stones. Folklore says four thousand years ago monkeys built a bridge from the Himalayas toward Ceylon, but discarded their stones near Hyderabad where they lie today.
A New York genius claims a vacuum car can skim air at high speed and drop explosives with precision on warships or fortified positions. Details are scant in his letter to the navy, but the matter is considered important enough for inquiry and an onslaught officer has been sent to speak with the inventor.
A Graphic magazine report portrays King Otto of Bavaria living in near total seclusion at Nymphenburg. Officials shield him from public view as police patrol nearby, while a solitary, ailing figure drains chocolate and flings coins to attendants. The piece recalls his youth, affairs, and a fatal illness underlying his restricted life.
A Broadway store branch of a large out of town scale factory displays delicate aluminum and platinum balances that weigh absurdly small quantities from a pennyweight to milligrammes. Reporters observe a signature weighed to milligrammes and a hair weighing three milligrammes, highlighting extraordinary precision and the joking reactions of passersby.
A writer recounts a blue jay’s clever hoarding of small items. The bird hides meat, bread, matches, pins, and a marble around the house, choosing places like book leaves, mats, chair springs, slippers, and even the author’s hair. The creature sometimes causes disturbances with matches and hair-stuffing mischief, amusing yet burdensome to the observer.
P S Bartlett, pioneer Waltham foreman, built a popular Bartlett watch line. About 500000 watches sold, rivaling Appleton, Tracy & Co. The patent regulator is full jewelled with a Breguet hair spring and a crown-only neck-set open-face wind. Over 2000 sold to British Government for Indian railways. colonial Australia and New South Wales orders also noted.
A Turin Cor correspondent recalls visiting the widow Garibaldi and viewing her modest home filled with medals, flags, and memories of her late husband. The piece shifts to assorted advertisements praising Dr. Pierce remedies, Scott’s Emulsion, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, and Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, urging trust and consumer interest amidst a background of period style notices and promotional copy.
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