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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1885
Page
5
A poem praising the dignity of humble toil and honest work. It contrasts lowly labor with grand honors, concluding that true worth lies in doing one’s best and living with integrity, whether skin color is black or white. It honors the unnamed tiller of the soil and soldiers who rest in graves.
Mrs Brown boards a train with a blue bundle, mistaken as another mother named Brown. The two babies resemble each other. confusion grows until a frantic search reveals the mixup. Cousins reunite families as both mothers exchange thanks and return home with relief at finding their babies safe.
A Lexington Echo report describes Georgia blacksmith Beussee, six feet ten inches tall, with extraordinary strength. He claims to outlift and outhold heavy objects, boasting power with both arms and hands and recalling horse-shoeing feats.
Visitors note widespread debility among animals as a cold snap follows a heat wave. Lions, leopards, camels and pumas show reduced activity with several deaths including Bennett’s wallaby and a sea lion. Zebra, camel and elephant handling issues described. Superintendent Brown cites illness as historic and widespread.
An aged pauper at the almshouse distrusts his past as the famed inventor of the Babcock fire extinguisher. Born in 1817 in Rochester New York, he moved through Indiana Iowa and California, studied medicine, then built a mercantile career before misfortune and alcohol ruined his fortune. He patented the extinguisher in 1860 and later endured years of wandering and poverty, with family support dwindling as his alcohol abuse intensified.
A Youth's Companion piece profiles Tristan da Cunha, a remote seven by six mile island with about 100 English inhabitants. The community, led by an elder veteran wrecked fifty years ago, farms cattle and potatoes, raises sheep, and maintains a tidy church life despite storms and rats overrunning crops.
From Salem Massachusetts town records a 1644 order requires two men to patrol the meeting house during worship to note those away from duties and report to magistrates. A 1676 directive assigns three constables at church doors to prevent exits until services end. A 1694 entry notes a man using a stick and fox tail to wake sleepers and silence unruly pets and people.
A New York letter describes a cloak shop using a double to stand in for Mrs William K Vanderbilt for fitting gowns. The real Mrs Vanderbilt attends to Newport affairs while a lookalike models garments to test fit and appearance. The piece notes the practice among rich clients and the shop’s reliance on precise likeness.
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