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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1883
Page
3
A curious poem depicts a bundle of love letters preserved in pink covers. It recalls sixtys era sentiment and features quoted lines from Howells and Tennyson. The piece ends with a note stating the survivor cannot be parted from the keepsake.
Myra Sydney counsels Cary Thomas, a Snow & Asher’s shop girl, on frugality and presentation. Cary adopts simple, neat attire and learns to avoid costly fads, improving her prospects. Weeks later Cary appears transformed and, with suitor Mark, plans marriage in Gilmanton, crediting Myra’s rainfall night talk as the turning point.
A former insider nicknamed Richards recounts a path from quick gains to debt and ruin after chasing a $10,000 yearly income to support a family of five. The tale follows his early luck, failed exits, and eventual penniless state living in Brooklyn, with hints at a New York pastor’s unusual anti gossip rule.
Opinion from National Poultry Monitor advocates matured poultry over spring chickens for home use and nutrition. It prefers pullets or cockerels aged twelve to fifteen months, noting they are fatter juicier and more nutritious than three to four month olds while acknowledging spring chickens sell in large city markets.
A list of general precepts for starting a farming life, stressing land quality, weed control, orderly work, timely seasons, good tools and stock, strict accounting, debt avoidance, early rising, trustworthy sellers, peaceful marriage, neighborly conduct, staying informed, and serving duties to self family country and God.
The County Clerk issued 163 marriage licenses in the past week in Chicago. Among couples, three brides were 16, with grooms aged 13, 10, and 7 years older. A 50-year-old groom married a 26-year-old bride. Average ages were 28 for men and 23 for women. Most men were 25 or younger. 40s saw few. The largest group of brides ranged from 20 to 25. An unusual case involved George A. Hamilton obtaining two licenses for a Catholic-Protestant marriage to fulfill church law requirements.
A compilation notes Miss Mollie Garfield and Miss Fanny Hayes at a Cleveland school, Mrs. Isabella Weeden tending a tooth in Colusa, and two Alabama neighbors described from early days. It recounts Thurlow Weed’s cigar tally, the death of Mrs. Eliza Gracie Halsey, and Colonel William E. Curtis as balladist. It also mentions Miss Murphy of San Francisco who wed Baronet Wolseley, with familial papal ties and a vast family fortune.
A collage of light verse and quips from multiple papers includes playful exchanges between children and elders, jokes about secrets and slang, social jests, and a brief funeral notice fragment. It mixes humorous anecdotes with stray notices and clipped quotes.
An old Black neighbor avoids direct blame while discussing missing hogs and a neighbor’s actions. The Arkansaw Traveller recounts how she says little, yet hints at wrongdoing by implication. The exchange shows how to speak about unfortunate events without naming the culprit.
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