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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1887
Page
6
An early essay defends the sport of fox hunting with anise scent bags on Hempstead plains. It contrasts American practice with English methods, notes farmer relations, and outlines meet logistics, runs, and safety considerations for different rider types and even the ladies.
The article describes fox hunting on Hempstead Plains and Long Island, detailing hounds chasing scent, pack dynamics, and the master’s guidance. It contrasts fox and mock scent hunts, notes dangers of five foot fences, and stresses nerve, balance, and hand in riding. The piece ends by stating that the sport emphasizes riding after hounds over killing a fox, per the New York correspondent to the Chicago Tribune.
N Y Mail and Express reports managers of Bowery dime museums dispute replicas of human curiosities. Some claim tattooed women, fat acts, skeletal displays, and other marvels are duplicated or fading in interest. One owner seeks only monstrocities while others argue that fakirs and freaks recur, making market analysis futile.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt lists counts for the Apocrypha and Bible books, chapters, verses, and words. It notes key facts like the middle books and chapters, occurrences of words such as Jehovah and and, and ends with a brief anecdote about a man in New York who rang a drugstore bell and was arrested, later seen as ahead of his date.
A humorous survey of old time domestic tips and mishaps. It covers washing potatoes in tepid water, safe lamp filling by an unattractive helper, humane treatment of animals, pest control tricks, alarm clock remedies, and playful cautions about locking wash-tubs and piano. It includes notes on wallpaper problems and hairbreadth pillow cases, concluding with German wool cleaning experiments and ironing prep.
A collage of quips facts and brief items includes humorous dialogues about finances and censorship, scientific curiosities from diverse sources, insurance policy disputes, global sheep counts, a Norfolk man’s fatal spinal injury after a ten foot fall, medical notes on ice-water enemata, Pyrenees surveys, an amateur astronomer predicting Judgement Day and New Jerusalem on Beulah, an 1883 cannon accident in Cincinnati, and other assorted notes from various newspapers.
An obituary notes the death of Anandabai Joshee, the Hindoo woman who studied medicine in America, earned the M D in 1836, and defied social norms to aid women’s healthcare in India. The piece commends her courage and consistency in pursuing a vital duty.
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