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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1887
Page
3
A weary night clerk at the Hotel Sedgewick on the coast tells of a summer fortune. He enchants heiress Della Sniggins with verse and fond shows of affection, marries her, and finds the seaside life rocky though she funds the household.
Kathleen Bray, a drifted heiress and Kathleen Moulton’s past, returns to the Marlows after a storm carries her to their island home. Robert Marlow helps her face fear of the water while Everett Moulton’s engagement to Kathleen unfolds. Kathleen reveals a past romance with Everett and, after family opposition, they marry. The pair part with a promise to remember.
A stormy run of lightning incidents includes a Good Hope youth burning a brass umbrella ferrule, Adeline Slaton of Augusta losing her voice, a West Liberty group’s tree struck with two horses killed and several stunned, a Atlanta negro spinning after a strike, Willis Crosman’s home lightning shock and seven fried chickens, a Milwaukee boy killed at the lake, and a river barn struck while a man stood nearby.
Stiggins eyes a pretty girl in a watchmaker shop window and pretends to seek a key for his watch. The exchange shifts to the father’s counter as the watchmaker inspects the timepiece, while Stiggins recalls a past flirtation with a smile.
A summer scene describes a large white spider captured by a pair of ground-dwelling wasps. The insects measure the spider, enlarge a doorway to an underground nest, and carry the prey inside after hours of work, revealing their methodical hunting and storage behavior.
Alabama cor respondent reports on eccentric Black names heard around the Limekiln area. He describes Lily, Mary Mandy Selina Pleasant Delightful, Shadrach Meshach Abednego, Willipus Wallapus, Queen Victoria, Mrs Cleveland, Rosebud Tabb, and children named Heaven Hell Moses Smote the Water, noting locals’ naming practices and humorous misunderstandings.
A tall sorrowful stranger at a Friday prayer meeting in a fashionable church proclaims a “work” selling for twenty five cents a copy, to be sold in fifty parts. He speaks of familiarity with the group and contemplates a daily scheme that failed.
A Baltimore American letter describes San Francisco Chinatown with 30,000 Chinese residents amid 300,000 city population. It details joss houses, banquets, opium use, gambling dens, and a slave trade involving women, praising missionary rescue work and noting police corruption and local tolerance of vice.
A fragment discusses funeral superstitions and omens. It notes that whistling at funerals is bad luck, two people sharing the same thought may foresee a death, and a delay at burial suggests the deceased is choosing a companion among mourners who will die soon.
A government engineer on an Arkansas creek logs waits for a river rise. A traveler asks about a rise and a flat-boat. the engineer explains Congress allotted 48 to improve the river and he is awaiting sufficient water to locate the stream.
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