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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1886
Page
5
Poem lines discuss the saying that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. It contrasts mighty men in leadership with a force described as unseen and velvet, noting women’s influence as shaping nations and fate while iron fortune is buried by charm.
In a Parisian style social scene Llewellyn Floyd hires Gertrude Griscom to furnish his new house after Mr. Caruthers offers her services. Dick Caruthers nudges a romance, and Floyd grows fond of Gertrude, inviting her to marry him as the home nears completion. Uncle Remus appears in Atlanta Chronicle humorously discussing prohibition and a jug.
The French minister of war Gen Boulanger remains a leading figure in Paris politics, pushing disciplined, economical military reforms despite army resistance. A Bristol of anecdotes highlights his bold actions during the 1870 71 siege and his refusal to assume command in a barricade mission, preferring to follow the troops as an amateur.
The New York Tribune reprints London Times figures showing England’s total drink expenditure for 1885 at about 616,848,800 dollars, down from the previous year. Mr Dawson Burns notes that trade depression, not temperance, largely drives the decline and warns that a healing economy could raise the bill again.
A Scottish Geographical Magazine account details a physician serving Mtesa of Uganda. The doctor describes strict rituals around medicines, a test of poison risk, and a trick where the king manipulated a drink to test the doctor and a companion. The anecdote ends with a dramatic reaction to the lotion.
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