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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1892
Page
3
This curious piece surveys eggs in culture and cuisine, detailing recipes and games, Cascarone festivities in Mexico, egg production and imports in the United States, and even historical Easter customs. It notes diverse uses from wax figures and decorative shells to romantic dances and wedding legends.
The article notes Easter fell on March 25 in 1883 and will again on March 25 in 1894. It states the date will occur on this early day only eight times in the next three centuries, marking a rare calendrical pattern.
Across Europe customs mark Easter. In London sixty boys from Christ's Hospital attend service at All Hallows’ Church and receive a bag of raisins a penny and a bun. In West Smithfield twenty-one widows gain sixpences from a tomb as in 500 years past. Strobeck Germany prizes chess with children learning moves and early castling and three boys and three girls earning chess-boards inscribed with “A Reward to Perseverance.”
The French Society for the Advancement of Science notes dangers of excessive meat intake, raw or badly kept meat, and ptomaine toxins harming kidneys. Prof Verneuil calls for remedy, linking cannivory to higher cancer rates per Reclus, the geographer.
A teacher asks a girl about fabric left after making a dress. The girl jokes mothers and dressmakers cut fabric to waste, with some honest dressmakers returning little to nothing, highlighting the irony of completed garments versus leftover yardage.
Two young San Francisco daughters of a prominent wholesale merchant named Lowenstein live and work a Washington land claim between Hadlock and Port Ludlow. They took up the claim two years ago, built a cabin, cleared twenty acres, and their nearest neighbor is four miles away. Also noted is the Pontresina electric central station at 6000 feet in the Swiss Alps.
A long excerpt recalls Miss Laconic, a quiet housekeeper with a single lung, who presides over a family with hushed voices and strict routines. The narrative contrasts her eerie influence with playful yuletide memories, a bear hunt scene, and domestic guidance for sick children and stamp cleaning.
Baron Gemmuingen, Lieutenant General and Inspector General of Austrian cavalry, died at his home in Gutterberg Austria after a long career. On the hour of death he summoned his attendant and commanded his parade uniform to be dressed, ate a bit, smoked his cigar, and died with the cigar still in his hand as the end came. The report ends with aphorisms on self-will and pride.
An elderly physician recalls Governor Paddelford of Rhode Island and a mustard plaster misapplied to a drummer in a sleeper car, provoking fright and laughter until the Governor is cured. Also told is a Sewing Machine Agent tale and a wildcat chase near Will's Cove in West Virginia, ending with the hunters celebrating success.
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