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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1887
Page
9
A narrator seeks relief from illness and debt through a "mind cure" girl. The girl’s blank stare and offbeat dialogue reveal a humorous, tender miscommunication as the speaker pleads for relief and connection. The piece blends comic longing with literary whimsy.
In Jim Ned Gulch, Big Dan exposes Philip Rhodes as a cheater at the Sleeping Tiger saloon. Rhodes fades as Minola Rhodes returns his gold, pledging peace for her dying father. Eben Goodner and Minola later wed, a union celebrated by the camp along with Big Dan’s support.
Fifty years ago on a New Hampshire farm Severence, poor and reclusive, avoids Davis the well to do neighbor. A cold night exchange ends with Severence replying I hear ye, I hear ye. A benevolent lady offers food to a ragged tramp who jokes his life’s woe was being convicted. Mire, Ruka to tour again next season under Owen Ferree’s management.
A country childhood vignette follows ten year old Fannie as she longs for blackberries and a pony, defies her mother’s warnings about bees, is stung, and learns restraint. The incident leads her mother to give Fannie a meaningful occupation and her father brings home a new saddle after a week of recovery.
A Georgia hunter recalls 1878 incident where he froze at sight of a moccasin and, after a gin bottle distraction, escaped. He later recounts a nighttime Long Island tale of two drowned sailors and a grave he dug, before returning to hunting with his companions.
Advice urges women to wear sturdy cotton cheviots for home tasks rather than fine gowns. Emphasizes plain waist and full skirt with modest trimming, low maintenance laundry, and neatness to avoid poor habits in children. Warns against ostentatious dress in hardship and recalls a jet gown as a cautionary tale of decline.
The article recounts many rediscoveries of ancient texts: Quintilian from a monastery at St Gall, Tacitus found in Westphalia, Propertius from wine-cellar casks, portions of Homer from a mummy’s hand, Heliodorus Ethiopics recovered by a soldier in Hungary, Thurloe State Papers unearthed in Lincoln's Inn, Mary Montagu letters in a trunk, Luther's Table Talk found, Dante Paradiso canto recovered after a window-sill lapse, and Milton's Doctrines of Christianity essay exposed from state dispatches in 1823.
Mrs. Arp clings to beliefs that signs may bring news of her scattered sons despite years of empty promises. The narrator reflects on tins of disappointment, the toll of distance, and a wish for reunion as Mrs. Arp presses on with daily chores and quiet faith.
A humorous vignette from Texas Siftings about a man named Stiggins who visits a watchmaker and notices a pretty girl, then leaves after a comic moment. The second item explains US oyster farming progress, detailing wire baskets used to keep mud down and yield estimates of ten million offspring per oyster. A Spanish medical daily is noted as El Diario Medico Harmaceutico.
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