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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1887
Page
5
J. J. Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle presents a surreal poem where a baby toy and its echoes invade a household. The verses contrast tender touches with violent acts such as wrecking an inkstand and ripping a manuscript, while a lullaby like voice fills the night with eerie sound.
Tom Norris helps widow Lena Lester and her daughter Katie with garden work and music. He falls for Lena, reveals love, and proposes to return at Christmas to become Katie’s papa, forming a crowd-pleasing but bittersweet romance in Wilburton.
A satirical note urges physicians to temper patient foolishness with caution. It cites cautionary tales about detailed diet instructions aimed at elderly patients, recalling how a physician gained notoriety by recommending the left leg of a boiled fowl to a wealthy patient, and how that patient later fell ill during the doctor's absence.
A Parisian workman Barthes enticed his wife to look into a well and pushed her in. She surfaced begging for help as he lowered a rope, then released her and dropped stones to sink her. Neighbors retrieved a ladder but his wife remained in danger before rescue attempts failed. He received a fifteen year penal servitude sentence.
Five explorers in the Okefinokee swamp discover a trembling island with rising smoke and volcanic activity. Dupont vanishes after a violent quake while Sam warns of danger as the party searches the island and returns to civilization believing Dupont fell into the lava chamber.
An American traveler in Venice meets a Mississippi man in rustic dress. They debate water levels, with the traveler insisting the city is flooded while the Southerner claims it is merely a stand of water. The exchange highlights cultural misunderstanding and humor.
An old acquaintance, believed dead, recounts a cure using horse riding in Virginia’s Blue Mountain region. He details starting with brief daily rides, then gradually increasing to ten or twenty miles as he regained health through outdoor work and riding the horse he tended.
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