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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1884
Page
3
An edited, period-voice reflection on wanderers and home, imagining sailors seeking a resting place “God knows where.” It contemplates love, separation, and the patience of those who wait, urging that home is found where love keeps vigil and returns are hoped for.
In a Swiss mountain cottage near the Paya de Vaud lives Antoine Beauvert with wife and two children Francois and Marguerite. Francois carves fine boxes and dreams of America while Marguerite aids the family. A music box made for Marguerite reveals their talents and foreshadows a distant journey to Chicago. Marguerite’s kindness and duty sustain the family as Francois leaves for Chicago, and the tale follows their hopeful reunion years later in Vaud with Jacques Godin and the mountain community.
A diner in a restaurant alarmed by an exposed roach in his stew calls for the proprietor. He demands action as he exits, while the waiter forcibly removes his meal ticket and presents six dead roaches found in the dish.
A collage of humorous quips and short quotes from various publications caricatures how readers clash with booming rail rates and literary fame. It blends satirical snippets about heroes in kitchens, warnings against risky habits, and a street-side janitor bell gag, all in brisk punchy notes.
The drop in copper prices to about thirteen cents a pound fuels a surge in brass and copper products. Manufacturers quote cheaper imports from Arizona alongside Lake Superior copper, expanding home production and exports. Stores showcase copper teakettles, urns, lamps, plaques, and hundreds of brass items, with new uses multiplying as demand keeps pace.
The passage recalls Lord Thurlow as a gifted yet uncontrollable chancellor whose tempers flared at any provocation. King George III offered a quiet rebuke, witty and sharp, in manners befitting a royal audience. London drawing rooms spread the bon mot about the incorrigible lord. In New York garrets are turning into roller skating rinks with lunches and dances enhancing the season.
An extensive and seen stock is always in the house with lines of samples of the costliest goods in the market. The selection will be supplied by express, offering three choice stocks unmatched by any house in the country.
Bargains offered for window shades fixtures and trimings steel engravings photographs chromes pianos organs Mason Hamlin Western Cottage and others Sewing machines domestic Eldridge Hartford White Estey and Singer among many other kinds listed.
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