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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1886
Page
5
A war era verse celebrates a dress parade of nearly a thousand loyal volunteers. It honors soldiers transitioning from combat to peace, with lines about sacrifice, victory, and a final resting place in the sod. Composed by Joun 8 Arreneson.
A sixteen year old narrator meets a spring fairy who promises love and riches for a future life. The vision guides him through beauty and joy, then returns as a ruined figure in October with gifts spent and guilt. He confronts the truth of loss and begs for one day more, but the fairy warns of death.
Gail Hamilton reflects in the New York Tribune on a Massachusetts woman traveling alone to Kentucky. She praises Kentuckians for protective courtesy toward women, contrasting with alleged French insolence. The piece argues American civility elevates women and critiques social order across the nation.
A memoir excerpt describes Confederate officers in Mobile during March 1865. The narrator recalls official business, dinner etiquette, and the soldiers’ modest meals of corn bread and bacon, with rare wheat biscuits. Anecdotes include prices for shoes and hotel meals, and remarks on hospitality and manners amid scarcity.
In the Detroit Free Press excerpt a Lime-Kiln Club meeting mocks Colonel Johnson for a fanciful theory about cultivating Canada thistles to grow mustard plasters. The president condemns his ideas while urging Johnson to retire to the ante-room, leaving him chastised and humiliated.
The late Emory Storrs recalls an English lord being stealthily kicked in front of a Chicago hotel by a mistaken assailant. The joker thought he was stealing upon his friend, apologized, and asked whether his friend enjoys such pranks. The lord, amused and unhurt, accepted the misidentification with quiet humor.
A member named Professor Gumboll Smith faced a question of privilege after a white man called him a coon and a moke. The club debates whether insults justify rudeness while the President urges restraint and unity. Reverend Penstock protests, arguing against tolerating insults from white men.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, once a Confederate cavalryman, amasses wealth after the war through railroad and land ventures. He is said to own a $70,000 Minneapolis house, a handsome villa at Lake Minnetonka, and a fine old mansion in Florida near Charlottesville Virginia.
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