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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1899
Page
6
A Sunday sermon collection explores right living, Christ as life’s model, and personal choice. It contrasts worldly trends with Jesus’ example, urging steadfast, lifelong commitment to the life of Christ. It notes discussions on prayer, faith, and love.
A meeting in New York City formed an executive committee of prominent ministers from Baptist Congregational Episcopalian Hebrew Methodist Presbyterian Reformed Unitarians and Universalists to arrange a state conference. The Wesleyan Church aims five million one hundred ten thousand dollars of its twenty first century fund with one million to build a Wesleyan hall in London for three thousand seating. There is talk of a Wesley College at Oxford modeled on Mansfield College. The Irish mission to Jews operates in Ireland with stations in Belfast Dublin and Cork and outreach to Limerick Waterford Armagh Derry and others distributing seven hundred New Testaments and tracts. James A Spurgeon noted as the richest nonconformist minister in England. Plans include a house of rest on Grand Canary for missionaries to Africa. In Portbury England a disused railway carriage hosts Wesleyan worship and a Sunday school.
Two brothers aged 28 and 22 died when a thunderstorm struck their dog cart near Chester. They fell from the back, lying side by side with the seat beneath and a burned chest and abdomen on the younger man, while the elder showed no external injuries. The cart and horse showed minimal damage and no other people or road traces remained.
McLubberty and Mrs McLubberty misread a two year old paper claiming Duffy is dead again in a comical exchange. The scene, set at a dockyard, echoes a prior fatal blast and ends with regret over the misdated notice.
A prominent New York bank issues luxurious checkbooks to its fashionable depositors. The covers bear the owner's monogram and the checks are printed in gold from exquisitely engraved plates.
A witty exchange features a precise boarder questioning self reference and a cheerful idiot answering that a person is his own firmest adherent, illustrating a humorous emphasis on self-absorption in a picked quote from the Indianapolis Journal.
A Sixth avenue shop features thousands of infant rattles from two cents to thirty five dollars. Tin, celluloid, bone, rubber, silver and gold rattles in many shapes and styles fill shelves as young men buy gifts while a salesman details prices and options.
The Department of Mines reports extensive bauxite deposits in New South Wales, a major source of alum. Elsewhere a long toboggan slide in St Moritz claims world fame, while Germany seeks to curb consumption with sanatoria and medical treatment.
A traveling salesman-turned-witness recalls his valise contents during a stock dispute. He admits memory limits after a long day, then reveals a single item a sample of inferior hair dye. The lawyer orders him to step aside as the courtroom settles.
A back number quotes the Chicago Record noting the heroine plays Schubert's Serenade and nothing on ragtime. The critique says the worst vice stays small and that women in politics are as graceful as hens in swimming.
A collage of witty exchanges and cartoons from various papers. Characters include Mrs Hardacre, Banuker’s boy, Larry and Denny, Ada and Dolly, and a chorus of quick quips about fires, elevators, cranes at the wharf, and domestic mischief. The jokes touch on theatre, romance, crime, and daily life with light mockery and playful misdirection.
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