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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1887
Page
4
Entry shows C J C Macleod listed under Warner South Dakota in a postal matter Record indicates classification as a main matter with official post office notation and dates omitted.
The piece notes Robert Lincoln leading the Republican ticket and anticipates victory, cites a St Paul sham battle with a spectator losing an eye, opposes sham battles as dangerous, and discusses coal price speculation, land office issues, farming machinery costs, and wheat market tensions in Aberdeen and surrounding regions.
The narrator recalls unusual transport in Barbadoes and Allahabad including a small shore road omnibus near Bridge Town run by a navy suited negro driver and a camel drawn two story omnibus in India. He notes a camel post chaise in Cawnpore for a railway survey and cites dramatic scenes from deserts of Tartary and a quote from Captain Marryat about Barbados standing firm.
A fragmented page includes a silk stocking crochet guide from the Journal with instructions for creating openwork silk stockings and gloves, plus a long column on simple household remedies for poisons. It cites Lavater on eyes, and offers antidotes for rat poisons, opium, laudanum, and caustic substances with practical steps.
A London colonial exhibition displays mechanical begging-boxes across six hospitals. Donations include 404 pounds in mixed coins, 287 old or defaced British coins, 423 foreign coins, and diverse items such as buttons, counterfeit detectors, various coin shapes, and unusual objects like spectacle glasses and rings.
A survey of literary figures and historic items includes John Raskin publishing his own writings with last year’s profits around F200, author Mary L. Booth earning a top editorial salary of about 5000 dollars plus a profit share, Ouida living alone in Florence with companions, and Brinton preparing a Nahuatl poetry volume with translations. Also noted are Poland’s first American newspaper in Buffalo named Ofezyzad, Verdi funding a hospital in Busseto, and Mrs Martha Washington in Denison Texas possessing a long letter from George Washington dated July 28 1772.
Mortgage sale involves Frank Filio and Sarah J. Filio and G W Abell trustees. Indebtedness of 180 dollars evidenced by ten promissory notes, due from 186? to 1891 with interest at 10 percent. property described as northeast quarter of section 10 and southeast quarter of section 3 in township 127 range 63 west.
Multiple notices from the Land Office at Aberdeen Dakota listing settlers filing for final proof or homestead claims. Names include James Dremmon Frank Grethenhagen Frank Wibois Wade, and others with sections ranges and witnesses proving continuous residence. Various dates in 1927 1889 and earlier appear.
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