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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1886
Page
4
An elderly man seeks help to stop dozing in church and snoring. The doctor recalls attempts from chewing tobacco to cayenne lozenges and a shawl pin intervention, noting eye strain, church lighting, and seating layout as sleep provokers. The piece ends with commentary on why women stay awake by watching each other’s bonnets.
Miss Anna Story, famed elocutionist, recounts a lent evening in Murray Hill parlors where a besotted, self styled elocution student proposed a joint recital. The young man boasted of coaching Booth and Salvini, urged a scene with him as lover, and the event ended in an embarrassing dispute as observers watched Seino approach.
A Chicago Madison Street car encounter ends with a violent throw as a newsboy harasses a Chinese man. Mob reaction escalates and bystanders react, leaving the Chinaman knocked to the street amid anger and taunts.
Ada Billings spots Charley Brouse and Kate Murrey in the woods during a church picnic. The scene sparks town chatter as Ada’s discovery confirms the budding romance between the local girl Kate and bachelor Charley, drawing wary smiles and whispered doubts from elders and parents.
A poem describes a lover noting a knot of blue in the beloveds hair and a pruning gasp of dew on daisies and a mood of sunny gleams as they walk beneath an apple tree. The speaker recalls a morning by a lane where blossoms fall and a knot of blue becomes a symbol of enduring love.
An old abolitionist recounts a 1859 escape of a enslaved man named Job Yancy who fled to Providence via a coffin in a freight train car. The tale, told as a rarely printed incident, describes the peril, confinement, and the moment of doubt as the coffin was moved across the North.
In Fairfax County Aunt Dilsey takes charge of poultry and prays loudly for the last goose. Her employer suspects theft and watches the poultry house. She steals the goose again claiming she must not let the thief deter her from salvation.
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