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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1884
Page
2
A disjointed, archival fragment discusses accompanying the author’s name, nonpublication status, and the need to clarify dates and figures. The brief hints at evidentiary purpose and careful, one-page notarized style drafting.
A satirical piece from the New York Mercury sketches a so called whittler in the southwest as a symbol of petty, everyday bargains. It lampoons the trader who kites prices, trades jokes, and keeps the peace by nodding through clever talk. The verse touches on tariffs, street corner bargaining, and a passing reference to a shooting case involving HH Griggs.
A graphic 1869 Kansas Colorado plains tale recounts engineer Howard Schuyler's narrow survival from a large Indian ambush. Surrounded by about one hundred warriors, he fights with a carbine and pistols, kills two attackers, and, after a harrowing retreat, returns to Sheridan with his crew amid renewed threats and a wounded companion.
In a San Francisco Jost column, Adelina latti a famed diva dramatizes a private scene turning a hotel room into a stage. The episode includes threats, a concealed person, and staff alarm as security and Lunacy Commissioners intervene, leaving the Count unsettled and the diva furious.
An old member recalls a superstition about a row in the House known as Fatality Row where many occupants died while serving. The informant notes Congress seats are chosen with fear, claiming several members from the Forty-fifth Congress and beyond died after occupying those seats, including Garfield, prompting nerves about sitting there.
An editorial spoof urges hotel owners in Michigan and Wisconsin to publish a candid ad listing true conditions. It lampoons poor accommodations, high prices, and shady practices, ending with a quip about consulting eminent physicians for the “hotel” its authors mock.
The case of Edward Thomas Delafield Jr. unfolds from his £100,400 inheritance to a failed brewery investment and costly lavish opera ventures at Covent Garden in 1847. He backed a promissory note of £5,000, joined management, and by 1848 faced £30,000 in debts with only £3, pieces of good debts, ending in flight to the Continent.
A young man with a bird-engraved pin saunters into John Haas's No 206 Front Street coffee and cake foundry. He orders a modest breakfast and artfully eats seven poached eyes on toast as amused bystanders, including James McDonnell the red-mustached stall observer, watch a self-promoting figure reveal a pasted autobiographical excerpt.
A New Yorker known for a compelling smile wins big in a challenge at Fulton Market, eating eggs and other foods to settle bets. He claims astonishing appetite and plans to eat forty eggs in a sitting while others wager against him. The scene features stalls, bets, and local characters observing the spectacle.
A cheerful tale shows Winny and Joe tricking Grandma Nelson with April Fool’s humor. The pair pose as hungry tramps, accept a plum cake reward, and reveal their prank when Grandma laughs at the ruse. The piece ends with a reflective section urging boys to write to their mothers and value maternal guidance.
A Detroit owner recounts Polly the parrot once beloved on Woodward Avenue. After the mistress loses fortune, Polly grows despondent and repeats a mournful plea to return home. The bird dies, mourning to go to Detroit.
A playful juvenile verse depicts a girl called Dear as she rises at dawn, washes, combs her hair, helps with breakfast, clears dishes, and tidies her toys while observing nature outside the steps. The narrator muses on guessing her name, noting neighbors call her Dear.
A moral plea to boys away at school, trade, or work to write home regularly. The message urges sons to consider their mother who longs for news and memory, warning that ignoring correspondence can hurt her heart and deepen distance.
A man pounding on a large sandstone atop a building site demonstrates splitting a rock by drilling six inch apart holes, inserting wedges, and striking them to break the stone cleanly. He notes larger quarry methods nearby, including steam drills and seam blasts for granite slabs, with straight splits and smooth finishes.
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