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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1886
Page
5
A clip from The Independent presents a poem of longing for a shared season and happiness. The speaker imagines blissful days if the beloved were present, then contrasts that with current burdens. The tone shifts to acceptance as pleasure mocks and pain remains, ending with the claim that skies would be fair if together.
In Chieti Bianca Bandettini spurns Stephano Foscarri who has joined bandits and threatens her family. Years later she returns to stage life and, during a play, reveals the bandits in action. Stephano is captured and decapitated, Antonio Brindisi is freed, and Bianca and Antonio wed. the village remembers the tale.
A young man Joseph Jeffords visits his grandmother and her giggling neighborhood of girls. His new facial hair provokes alarm and laughter as the old woman mistakes him for a child, while the tale shifts to the Boston court case of Mrs. Anna Coolidge in a Baltimore murder plot.
Two cotton bales from 1862 raised by slave labor sold at Rock Hill. The owner, offered 3312 cents in gold per pound, refused and died with the bales stored. At sale the bales fetched 8 1/4 cents per pound, the lowest price since their growth, despite the bales being twenty four years old and in excellent condition.
A historical reflection on the 1790s and early 1800s when gas lighting faced ridicule. Murdock lighted houses with gas and was called a wizard, while Winter proposed London lighting and drew satire from Sir Humphrey Davy. A public demonstration mocked fears of explosions and smoke, with caricatures and comic quips about fire through water and city burning.
The writer compliments American women over British beauties Mary Queen of Scots and Mrs Langtry. He asserts twenty Boston shop girls surpass the old country’s women in looks and criticizes British dress as rough and pitchfork tossed. He notes past views of beauty and rarity of truly handsome women.
An American shipboard account portrays Samoan men and women in dress for contrast with Western fashions. The narrator meets a chief’s daughter, learns tattoo significance, and observes flirtations and cultural tensions aboard. Dialogue hints at religion and good luck symbols.
In Hartford Times a five year old asks about Lent and Jesus while recounting kindness to the poor and blind, recalling Bible scenes. He expresses a wish for Jesus to visit and vows to help hungry children when grown, as his mother hurries to Attleton's reception.
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