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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1888
Page
5
A short moral verse urges kindness and gentle speech, arguing that avoiding ill words can prevent harm. It extols speaking well of others, leniency for faults, and choosing the best we can say as life passes quickly. The piece emphasizes restraint and benevolence in daily discourse.
Agnes resents her husband Henry Mayne praising his late first wife Maggie and clashes with Mamie over the memory. The widower’s mother Mrs Pigeontrot complicates relations as Agnes and Henry navigate loyalty, jealousy, and family pressures within a small town domestic drama.
The piece argues by natural history that early humans resembled other animals in struggle and predation. Primitive life was a constant fight for survival, with no evident moral improvement, as species contended with rivals like mammoths, lions, and hyenas in a Hobbesian world.
From the Fort Myers Press report dating back to 1876, water is scarce on the cattle range as alligators have drained water holes. Gators mud up banks at wallows, letting cattle crowd them dry. Now cattle rely on dew coated grass at dawn and dusk. If rain fails, ranchers must dig for water or drive herds to rivers, a nearly impossible task over vast land. Many cattle are moving into the Everglades seeking moisture.
The Leeds Mercury reports a Madrid execution spectacle after five years. A young woman her lover and an accomplice were garroted in a prison yard scaffold viewed by a large crowd including journalists. Convicts were attended by priests and officials as spectators toured the chapel. The Queen asked pardon but the government refused due to atrocity.
In this essay from The Vertnightly view, the author argues that peacetime training should mirror war. Regular drills alone fail to prepare youth for battlefield shocks, so continuous, varied combat exercises are needed to build veterans’ steadiness and decisive action under fire.
The article traces the origins of the Faust myth from the 1587 Frankfort book History of Dr Johann Faust and its dedication by Johann Spies to Caspar Kolin and Hieronymus Haff. It notes later English and Hamburg editions, ballad printings, and Marlowe’s likely use of the Frankfort book as a source for his famous drama.
A shabby garret dweller in Paris ends his life by hanging himself and leaves a fortune to the porter, whose mix of compassion and curiosity turns to shock upon reading the eccentric legacy. The porter, amused and astonished, discovers the macabre bequest and rope as part of the transfer.
A nineteenth century tale recounts how Dahomey kings claim duty to their ancestors and gods through messengers. A Yoruba native refuses to deliver a king’s message, invoking ethnic tension, and the king spares him, creating a perilous precedent about obedience, fear, and intertribal relations.
General Mike Ryan recounts a Metropolis Bank failure episode with a Leavenworth banking parallel. He describes how a rival bank faced a run and a banker diverted a crate of coins to calm depositors. Despite the drama, the crowd dispersed after a five minute standoff, leaving the bank with about $40,000 in coins unloaded from barrels.
An American reporter recalls Italian shopkeepers showing trust to strangers, allowing credit and generous indulgence in Rome and Geneva. The piece notes merchants’ confidence, the ease of making purchases with delayed payment, and the impression of hospitality toward foreigners despite budgets.
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