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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1886
Page
3
The article surveys current styles in colors, fabrics, and dress silhouettes for summer wear. It highlights striped and black white combinations, gray tones with red or olive, and vivid silks with yellow patterns. Bonnets favor Normandie shapes and ornate netting, with aigrettes waning while decorative hats with braids and ribbons dominate.
The article surveys parasols with ornate hand painted designs and bejeweled handles, pink silks and zephyr ginghams for toilets, silver belts with linked leather and silver trimmings, and chic accessories like mousquetaine gloves. It notes fabric novelties, beaded trims, chignons in Paris, and versatile separates transforming street outfits into afternoon toilettes.
A Sunday Magazine excerpt contrasts worldly flight with spiritual rest. It urges the soul to abandon pursuit of empty forms and find peace at Jesus feet, then links beauty and sorrow to nature as a path to a higher hope and home beyond decay.
A boy chases a beautiful butterfly from flower to flower with zeal. He tries to catch it on a rose, under a hat, on a myrtle sprig, and in violet beds, until he crushes it in a tulip cup. The dying insect warns that pleasure, like a painted butterfly, amuses in pursuit but perishes if grasped too ardently.
A speaker rejects ritual show and urges action over sobbing altar cries. He calls religion negative goodness and positive righteousness, praising practical deeds and work over constant moral posturing. The narrator recounts quitting meanness and crossing a river of decision to salvation.
Sam Jones delivers a preacherly exhortation about repentance not being sorrow. He urges believers to quit meanness and cast their hooks on the sinful side of the ship to catch souls, insisting he stays off God’s side and trusts divine action.
Religious notes discuss protests against faws in services and urge quiet use. France abolishes public school religious instruction. Paris replaces with obligatory theatrical shows. Plainfield Massachusetts is cited for missionary activity since 1815. The Presbyterian Church plans Philadelphia assembly in 1888 and a $5,000,000 centenary fund. Southern Methodist children contribute $10,000 for frontier Sunday schools. Mennonites in Germany plan a Berlin University chair. North Baptists keep Congo mission. TaLMach two/deep, one day lost to sickness. A court anecdote covers jests about a judge and fines, with satire on judicial temper. Latelline Bell.
In Wayne village, George Smith sold rum from a hogshead with a plug as a faucet. A lone frog jumped out when a customer asked for a quart, prompting Smith to remark on the West India frog. The piece then shifts to a poultry expert noting chickens need an outer range as quoted by a cook.
The essay notes the Astor brothers John Jacob and William W. Astor as major New York real estate magnates owning vast properties and building a fortune built on land. It compares them to Vanderbilt wealth, describes their offices and clerks, and recalls the family’s historical emphasis on real estate over other ventures. It also touches on parasols and a Western ticketing anecdote, interspersed with brief mentions of British aristocratic landholdings and a Duke-related tidbit.
A New York Tribune reminiscence recounts Col Isaac O Barnes a former Clerk of the U S Court in Boston. It notes his high falsetto and a string of anecdotes about his eccentricities including humor about riding, a theater outing with a wayward son, and a cruel baptismal condition for church members.
In a playful yet deadpan note, the author recalls a Watertown visit that stretched into days due to a hotel order of wheat flour cakes. The piece previews a planned North American Review romance about a dreamy young man and a waiter who poses as a waitress, culminating in a dramatic, ironic ending with Francisco's death.
A Macon Telegraph quip contrasts a reform saddle on the Democratic mule with Mustang Liniment. An Allendale, D. C. gentleman, 51, is reported cutting new teeth, while school property values are cited as six million dollars in the South versus eighty eight million in the North.
The article contrasts old and modern dental methods. It recalls hand drilling and land-pressure fillings, then hammering with a land-mallet, the rubber dam, and silken ligature. It notes the shift to automatic and electric pluggers, rapid drilling, devitalization when needed, and a full filling in about an hour versus half a day a decade earlier.
A humorous tale shows a sarcastic man questioning railroad rules about reporting a train’s position while the conductor offers a rules volume. A father tests his son on grammar and gender, sparking a quip about Stoops To Conquer. An economist argues surplus labor is solved by new work, urging mobility to find useful roles.
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