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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1887
Page
9
Flossie, a pretty golden haired child loved by family and playmates, tells her mother she enjoys walking with Mamie Brown, a poor cripple girl. The mother crying at the girl’s honesty learns Mamie’s plain appearance draws attention away from Flossie’s beauty.
A mother notes her ten year old daughter’s growing sense of self and social behavior at school. The child casually mentions accepting daily flowers from a boy named Jimmy Smith, while other girls tease him, highlighting early social dynamics and perception in a family diary style.
A Boston Courier quotation shows a father crooning that a boy born to fight should be a general, while the mother imagines giving him a chance to distinguish himself by joining a church choir as peace advances.
A humorous exchange pits a railroad engineer against a scientist over color perception with the engineer insisting the zephyr is blue while the scientist calls it red. The anecdote ends with a quip about mistaken color names and sight. Also noted is a Belgian baby born without a mouth needing cheek feeding, seen as a potential fortune in the US as a Harber.
A humorous clippings-style item notes a five year old asking if he must marry his brother’s widow once he dies, with a light tone from the Boston Transcript and Yonkers Gazette noting a dog as a comic sighting.
Isaac Teichman a cigar maker died at his home after about four months of a baffling skin disease pemphigus. The illness began with a small forehead pimple that blistered and spread to the arms chest and back. He endured long baths to relieve the irritation and doctors from several specialties studied the case. The disease is rare noninfectious and often affects the mucous membranes. treatment varies and experts debate best methods.
Four flies seek breakfast and meet doomed fates from tainted jelly plain bread and beer each. The third dies from aloes. the fourth bites fly paper with inscription Death to flies and survives, a grim joke ending with a self described pest control twist.
A Jacksonville family at a summer resort laughs at the idea of no mosquitoes. A child complains about bites while the adults joke that the heat is to blame, illustrating a lighthearted scene from the Florida resort crowds.
An advertisement extols Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer as the best remedy for gray hair and hair growth. A Minneapolis Plymouth Clothing House offers a 30 page catalogue with self measure guidance and low prices. A Kohler, a farmer near Perham, was killed by John Adams during a quarrel.
A collection of brief items includes a sales pitch for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery amid medical adverts, railway officials avoiding press questions about the Kouts wreck, Jenks’ dream about a prizefight and his explanation, and a note that the king and queen of Servia will keep their separation for now.
A fragmentary column lists self treatment for female ailments with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and mentions Dr Sage for Mrs Craik's death. It adds medical notices, a lung balsam ad, Piso’s Cure, a Paris dispatch on Boulanger, a merchant silver set giveaway, and veterinary carbolisalve sold by druggists.
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