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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1883
Page
3
A long poem like tale follows rail whistles from New Britain to Hartford and a romance across Europe. An engineer narrator recalls childhood crushes and a later reunion with Mabel Byrne in Switzerland. The tale blends trains, lovers, and art with a bildungsroman tone.
A boarding school girl seeks watch repair at a small St Louis shop. A drunken man rests at the showcase while the watch is handed to another man who drops it. The watch vanishes with a friend, a money drawer and a two hundred dollar safe are looted. The proprietor is accused, recovers a watch, and confesses a romantic if uncertain tale as Detroit Free Press notes.
A dialogue from American Sports mocks the baseball umpire. It lampoons honesty and ability as job traits, notes the umpire’s impartiality and occasional fines, and ends with a casual line about a family outing as spectators’ knowledge pours in from morning papers.
A Bangor Wing and Courier extract recounts a letter by Joseph May to General David Cobb dated August 11 1820. It includes a curious list of weights at West Point 1784 for officers Washington 20 pounds Lincoln 21 Knox 24 Huntington 18? pounds Greaton 11? pounds Swift 29 pounds M Jackson 22 Jackson 24 Huntington 22 Cobb 18 pounds Humphries 22 pounds. The note reflects longing for a better country and lingering affection between Revolutionary figures.
A slim man with yellow hair visits a fashion store selling arms and orders an extraordinary Civil War style assortment. He buys six revolvers, two shotguns, three cannons, daggers, swords, cimnccars, two claymores, four Turkish cimnargs, Springfield rifles with bayonets, harpoons, and dynamite. He plans to ship items COD to a Texas hotel as he explains he is starting a paper in New York.
A widespread eight month tally lists disasters and fatalities from wrecks, fires, floods, mines, and plagues. Notable figures include Ischia quake 4500, India cholera 15000, Egypt cholera 21000, and numerous ship, train, and factory incidents across the world. The account mixes sensational totals with regional calamities and a jab at a dressmaking scam reported by the Indianapolis Journal.
A digest of social and literary items notes Harpers authoring The Entailed Hat and his two Baptist minister sons, Bartholomew Tarney’s centennial walk, Maud Banks as a European studying elocutionist, W D Howells at forty six preferring home life, Walker the Charlestown judge’s Catholic ties, Dr Mary Walker’s $2000 bequest, Morley’s Deity capitalization dispute, Justice Gray’s long horseback trek, and Julius Nathan’s name change to Julius Newton amid stigma concerns.
A collage of droll lines and quips from Chicago Herald Detroit Post Yonker’s Statesman and City of Mexico Monitor. The jokes cover cooks misreading diners or clerks, a talkative tramp with a beefsteak, a witty motto on brevity, muffed epithets for Captain Webb, a man writing to his mother, dyspepsia cures, masquerade mischief, a light bill of costs pun, and a professor’s dictum about a sharp dressed, hard working engineer with a dark shaving gag.
John Crankshaw Jr of Frankford built a fourteen foot canoe using muslin and barrel hoops. The lightweight craft, with pine knee posts and a oil soaked muslin skin, features two water tight compartments and a deck. It weighs thirty eight pounds after coating and is test flown on the river daily. A telegraph operator need not be a college graduate but must have a sound education.
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