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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1894
Page
3
Readable fragments mention victims and injuries in an unspecified incident. References to counts, roles, and locations are broken and unclear, with many illegible names and numbers. The piece lacks coherent details to identify the event, people, or outcome.
The article surveys Morocco as a target for England, France, Spain, and Italy, arguing European powers seek Tangier and influence over the coast. It portrays Sultanate oppression, heavy taxes, and graft harming agriculture and trade, while praising past Moorish prosperity and the desert’s alluring yet perilous beauty.
The passage argues Morocco remains in the dark ages due to a deadlock over territorial disposal. It contends that once a stable government is formed and fair taxation set, Morocco could recover ancient industry and prosperity, with forests mines and agriculture attracting European interest, likely England, and a province rivaling South Africa and Egypt.
Charles J. Patterson recalls a Philadelphia physician who, after a night of drinking, mistakenly removed the healthy eye instead of the injured one. The patient became permanently blind, but the surgeon showed deep remorse, turning the case over to a competent colleague and living with lifelong regret.
In Iowa City the clergyman turned tragedian George C Miln faced a dramatic moment when a theater patron hurled a huge bouquet toward the stage. Frank Tannehill Sr. played Buckingham and the dead king and felt the impact as Miln fled the bier thinking the bouquet a cabbage.
At a New England society of New York dinner, Blaine and Governor Van Zandt joked about Dutch and Yankee influence in New York. Van Zandt quipped that he could sum up the city’s history: the Dutch settled New York, and the Yankees settled the Dutch.
The famed physician Bouvard is summoned to aid the Archbishop of Rheims who endures violent colic. He initially delays, prompting a messenger to plead in dramatic terms that Monseigneur is suffering the tortures of the damned. Bouvard repeats the surprise of the moment with disbelief at the gravity of the Archbishop’s ailment.
John Willis, a Washington criminal, is titled The Wizard of the Cells among city police officials for allegedly unlocking cell doors without tools. The claim highlights his reputed ability and notoriety within law enforcement circles.
The earliest flight records note a Sept 18 1783 ascent by a sheep a cock and a duck reaching 1500 feet. The first human ascent followed in the next month with Francois Pilatre de Rozier stepping into a balloon.
Louisiana has only a tenth of its arable land under cultivation yet yields 120 million pounds of rice 330000 hogsheads of sugar and 500000 barrels of molasses in a single period.
Maj Gen John McAllister Schofield, born 1831 in New York, rose from West Point graduate to Army of the Ohio commander. He served as secretary of war in 1868 and became senior major general, facing retirement next year upon reaching age limit.
The article describes Allen Ransome's steam powered tree felling device using a portable boiler and reciprocating saw blade. It compares its appearance to a rock drill and notes its adjustable axis for vertical and angled cuts plus the ability to fell and squarely cut large trees within reach of a long steam hose. It also mentions old shoes being ground into a fiberless substitute sold below natural leather prices.
The piece explains that Spanish grandees claim the right to wear hats before the King to show independence from the king. It also notes Tweed originated from a misread twill in a blurred invoice, where the word looked like tweed and was adopted.
Hamlin Garland visits Joaquin Miller and describes the poet of the Sierras living simply on a terraced fruit farm above Oakland. Four small cottages house his mother and brothers with guests, rose gardens, and walls hung with autographs. Miller values freedom and rugged nature.
The narrative portrays a man who spent his boyhood in Oregon forests and rejects luxury. He sees Christ near nature, embraces the law of honest labor, and figures that honest toil ends life’s hardships. He transformed barren hillside into terraces, stone walls, trout ponds, and olive and walnut orchards.
A Berlin report notes a rise in Germany’s youth criminals aged 12 to 18 from 42,240 to 46,468 in one year. The Imperial Interior Ministry considers reorganizing compulsory schooling and aims to imitate English systems to address morally debased, crime-free youths.
A German newspaper reports the original Napoleon I letter from 1815 to the Prince Regent demanding residence in England is in a Strasburg resident's possession. The piece, in the Emperor's hand with erasures, belongs to a Gourgaud courier descendant who prepared the clean copy for transmission.
Rome police seized a marble relief bust of Christ found by a river workman on the Tiber. The sculpture, in excellent condition, features an elegant carved border and is described as a significant Byzantine piece recovered from the water.
Manchester England nears completion of a 12.5 million dollar system. Thiermere in Cumberland County dammed to supply water of best quality to Manchester in quantities for all probable needs. A six year old muses on future feelings.
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