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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1886
Page
5
A humorous verse portrays a newborn's antics from infancy to growing up. The speaker contrasts playful infant mischief with the eventual need to work, highlighting parental affection and the passage toward independence. The poem blends comic imagery with a gentle moral about future responsibility.
A stern Quaker landlord, Benjamin Marvin, promises one hundred dollars for church repairs, delays bills, and by aiding tenant Philip Brooks and family, relents on rent and helps cover meeting-house costs, adding ten dollars when repairs exceed estimates.
Harper's March piece recalls Victor de St Hillaire the cool colonel who faced danger calmly in Algeria and Tonquin voyage. It contrasts his steadiness with a hot young sub lieutenant nicknamed Sudden Death who briefly faces Forty Eight hours arrest from St Hillaire after a pistol misfire. The dialogue closes with a boast of a prior arrest by the colonel.
In Elizabeth Woodville’s diary a gentle Monday of courtship with John Grey unfolds. She records meals and chores, a pony ride, shared looks, a farmer’s fire incident, gifts, and dreams of a future queen. The vignette foreshadows her later marriage and imprisonment.
The Hartford Times describes Mt Washington New Hampshire climate resembling Greenland in both summer and winter. It notes extreme gales surpassing 100 miles per hour with a 184 mile per hour record and the danger to summit buildings and signal station dwellers.
In a private note Beauregard records asking Dr. Brodie to measure pulse rates of himself and staff before the second day's fight at Shiloh. The readings varied from ninety to one hundred thirty beats per minute.
An elderly, near sighted passenger declines glasses and answers a townbound traveler while discussing his daughter Emmer’s upcoming wedding to Hank Williams. He criticizes Emmer’s habits and her mother’s influence, then confirms the invitation.
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