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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1886
Page
6
Verse speaks of evening fall and rest for workers and beasts. It frames change coming with a calm future as toil ends and sleep at last brings peace. The speaker envisions a tranquil sea wind and a final rest after labor.
Priscilla Bent from Kansas visits New York relatives, who harshly judge her plain appearance. Pinkie hides a plan, dons a faux tableau gown, and staggers into dinner to teach her kin a lesson in manners. Uncle Silas and Mr Morris endorse the ruse and later wed, with Pinkie revealing the truth.
Vice-President Henry Wilson arrives in Washington in October 1861 in command of Massachusetts volunteers. He hands over to Capt. Gove and seeks a staff appointment on Gen. McClellan's staff. He then assists with reconnaissance of fortifications and improvised roads to report on conditions.
The article surveys practices to thwart ghosts leaving by the house after death. It notes carriers moving the dying outside, taboos on houses, and barriers like doors, axe thresholds, and opened voids to prevent return. Various cultures including Kaffirs, Maoris, Russians, Germans, English, and others are cited with methods to misdirect or block the returning spirit.
The article explains how wave height depends on water depth and fetch distance. It cites Wick with 600 miles of fetch and 40-foot waves, Cape of Good Hope gales with 20-foot waves over 300 to 600 miles, and Dr Scoresby’s 1841 observations of towering seas and shipboard sightlines.
The Hon. W. Beresford, recently deceased, received $6,000 annually for visiting the royal tennis court in Britain each year. Another sine cure assigns the Duck Pond Island governor in Green Park London a $7,500 yearly pension for supervising a quarter acre of land.
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