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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1885
Page
7
A fragment from a serialized tale follows Patience Blackthorn’s wedding to Enoch Marrish in Mertham church. An apparition from Patrick Stephen Harviw disrupts the ceremony as Patience confronts a past lover, revealing a dramatic clash of money, duty, and vengeance.
A fragment from a tale about Enoch Marrish who plots to win a wife with a ring yet frets over the cost and delays, noting patience, money, and social pressures. He plans to buy a ring, weighs debts, and contemplates brands and grog as he walks toward Hanchester, eyes fixed ahead.
A childlike scene recalls Madge and the speaker listening to a preacher in a warm dull room. They rest in silence as words blur and a sister sleeps with blue eyes tearful, while the hour drags on and curiosity about the sermon fades.
A boy named Bobby forgets to lock Old Speckle the hen in at night. Her feet freeze, but she adapts and raises a brood with help from Mrs. Brown. Bobby learns care and companionship through the hen and her thirteen chicks. A second tale humorously follows mischief by Jocko the monkey with kitchen capers and a baboon's clever theft, illustrating animal tricks across Africa and Asia.
In Borneo coal is extensively developed along the coast and riverbanks with seams up to twenty six feet thick. The island hosts a mix of coal ages including mesozoic and paleozoic, with surface coal and shale at Labuan and fossilized conifer wood. The geology resembles Hawkesbury sandstone and suggests a drifted sandstone formation with no marine lime.
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