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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1887
Page
10
A playful dialogue describes a novice archer and Cupid guiding a maid through flirtatious tests of love. The scene blends quiver and bow with romantic longing as arrows become charms, teeth and dimples a weapon, and the maiden finally wins the beloved Damon through wit and charm.
A rugged tale of Captain Raton, his daughter Neleta, and the loyal old scout who drives off Apache pursuers to rescue the pair. After a perilous pursuit through prairie and hills the scout is fatally wounded, dies in sight of the settlement, and is laid to rest as Dick and Neleta pledge marriage while Captain Raton rebuilds his home.
A fable describes a Wolf spared by a generous Hare who taunts cowardice. The Wolf explains his mercy came from preferring to spare hares rather than threaten their lives. The piece ends with a Moral about deeds and words echoing through experience and the impact of actions on others.
A social commentary notes a lady's dress at breakfast signaling status and asserts real beauty overruns disease. It links fashion with propriety and extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for women’s illnesses, priced at one dollar and sold by druggists.
Retiring Gen. Wolford of Kentucky once faced John H. Morgan when Morgan raided Campbellsville. Wolford’s cavalry entered the town, Morgan’s men sprang up, and Morgan captured Wolford after a brief fight. Wolford was wounded, survived, and his command dispersed Morgan’s forces before the end of the campaign. An advertisement echoes a patent pill remedy offering a small pleasant purgative.
A collage of Victorian miscellany from Kingston area papers includes a tale of grave clothes kept for family security, sly social jabs about neighbors and lovers, plus snippets on cures, confessions, mockery, ads, and quotes about health, vanity, and travel. It shows local humor, manners, and curiosities from late 19th century press.
The speaker recalls starting tobacco late, using smoking to aid concentration in danger. He recounts a Congo journey where a fight was imminent, lighting a pipe to steady nerves before hours of combat, noting that Livingstone never smoked.
The Philadelphia Call describes a jewelry contrivance for diamond earrings. A small basket like band with a cuplike cavity and radium tipped pin creates unstable equilibrium, making diamonds oscillate on the hoop without wear by the metal.
A dismayed miner crawls from a straw stack tunnel after noon, hungry and disgusted. The piece then notes malarial illness and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy. A Cincinnati enquirer item describes a man seeking police work with a cork leg, and humor pieces reference wits from Harvard and Punch. Other snippets mention Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy, a Chicago paper offer, and Chinese maiden finger nail lore.
A Northern man recalls visiting Florida for rest and change but laments that the whites took the change and the hotels took the rest, a quip attributed to the Atlanta Constitution.
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