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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
12
A Kansas City report quotes musicians saying deafness ends careers for brass players and others in orchestras. Constant vibration of notes damages ear machinery, making long careers untenable for those who perform daily and practice extensively.
A fragmented portrait blends Louis XIII memories with coin taunts by a young dauphin during a royal drill. The piece links Mme Monglat and Sully to lessons about spending and leadership in early France.
Ainslee's Magazine recounts Commander Leary's stand at Apia in 1888 when the Adams blocked the German Adler near Mataafa's forces. He used stealth and grit to deter Captain Fritze, declaring the United States would not salute slave-carrying ships. The standoff ended with the Adler retreating and Leary asserting American protection.
The Gentlewoman remarks that awkwardness comes from forcing a different demeanor in company. True charm lies in a natural, affable manner. Appealing traits include seeming un affected and listening attentively when others speak.
A customer complains in a Chicago Tribune excerpt about long wait times. The grocer Madan explains he runs the shop with one clerk to save costs and recalls the woman from yesterday who criticized the weights.
A Colorado man recalls a New York Tribune anecdote about a miner who stubbornly refused to surrender a claim. Facing ruin, a stranger offers eight dollars cash but the miner demands a million. the deal ends with the claim selling for that amount.
The article recalls Samuel Houston's mysterious departure from Tennessee politics to live with the Cherokees in 1829 and his later life. It also recounts a lighthearted anecdote about an editor paying a supposed debt with a half crown, prompting Irish humor about a possible full crown.
A English high court judge was arrested in Mayfair on suspicion of burglary. A police officer charged him with loitering with felonious intent as the judge proclaimed his royal office, only to be met by a knowing smile and an unexpected ally in an old offender who recognized him. The rogue’s casual corroboration of the judge’s claim allowed his lordship to walk free.
The article recalls Samuel Peppard's Kansas City Kansas built prairie schooner with a sail to reach Colorado during the gold rush era. The craft weighed 350 pounds, carried four men and 500 pounds of gear, featured a ten foot mast, two sails, rudder, brake, and a unique welded overbed harness. After a rough test near Oskaloosa, Peppard and three companions attempted a longer voyage northwest through Kansas to Denver, claiming speeds of two miles in four minutes and 50 miles in a day amid wind challenges.
Quote from Philadelphia Record stating advertising is always necessary to draw profits, as the permanent object of financial investment and a belief shared by all successful merchants.
A stitched-together excerpt from an Australian paper presents a verse guide on bones of the face head spine ribs arms hands fingers hips thighs ankles and toes, counting two hundred and more bones plus teeth and a wormain sesamoid bone. It is followed by remarks from England's Boy Choirs and a Washington Star piece on nerves and hair picking and sensitivity to hair and velvet.
It recounts the so called red dinner at the Savoy in London hosted by a millionaire who later met an untimely end. The hall and menu featured red throughout from lamps to napkins to a red nine on the menu, reflecting a lucky rouge et noir run in Monte Carlo. Forty guests attended a costly 18 course feast costing over 65 dollars per person. It also notes Wall Street’s pull, with brokers chasing quotes and a veteran remarking retirement is only possible when flat broke.
A New York Sun piece outlines the ocean peddler from Hamburg or San Francisco who sells varied cargoes to far flung ports. It notes contraband risks, cargo handling, and a tale of stored dynamite aboard, with a shift in Pacific profits due to reduced interisland pearl divers.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt describes an elderly German housewife keeping a perpetual wash list. She used drawings of each clothing item with chalk marks to count the quantity for washing, erasing the mark when returned and reusing it the next week, avoiding abbreviation confusion.
Wendell Phillips argues newspapers shape all aspects of society from religion to laws. Paris faces rapid statue reshuffles with deposed figures stored away at Auteuil, while new statues rise in place of those toppled.
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