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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
7
A Washington observer laments the lack of lively action in Congress and suggests galleries crave regular roughhouse scenes. Strangers fill the galleries, watching their own representatives for moments of drama while routine monotony, not fireworks, shapes most visits. The piece notes few locals attend, visitors seek grandeur from Senators, and the overall mood is perpetual dullness.
A compilation of notable women highlights diverse achievements including Yukon’s lone woman physician Thuse and Miss Floretta Vining’s newspaper ownership. It notes Miss Eva Johnston’s Missouri professorship, Miss Alice Serber’s historic bar admission, and Miss Braddon’s long refusal to be photographed among other distinguished individuals and milestones.
The 100th anniversary of George Washingtons death was marked with Masonic ceremonies in Washington and Mount Vernon. President McKinley attended with his cabinet as lodges from many regions joined a procession to the tomb, echoing the funeral route of 100 years ago. Additionally military figures and political notes fill the broader update with regional election moves and party shifts.
Reports from London recount Methuen's costly defeat and Gatacre’s reverse as British casualties exceed 1,000, with the Highland Brigade among the hardest hit. Highlanders lose officers and men under heavy Boer fire while both sides hold fortified positions after a brutal engagement near Magersfontein.
August Lowell of Boston gave fifty thousand dollars to the institute of technology Richard S Berlin of Omaha Nebraska has been appointed census supervisor of that city Postmaster Bailey colored Millview Virginia gets five years in the pen for embezzlement Giantess Ella Ewing erects a house at Gorin Missouri doors ten feet high James Tates a Chicago waiter fatally stabbed with an umbrella in the hands of a customer A Sonora Mexico mine operator says the war with Yaqui Indians will continue for two years Patrick Harrington of Sacramento had his mind unbalanced while taking a degree in a society German officials who accompanied the Emperor to England have been appointed honorary knights of the Victorian order Efforts are being made to combine leading manufacturers of enameled bath tubs wash tubs laundry and bathroom equipments Surgeon General Sternberg says no Venezuelan shrub cures leprosy Francis Pesky of Novato shot in the foot while struggling with a cat which clawed the trigger Constable Cornwell and George Howard near Columbia are dead Moonshine whisky fight Andrew Sallender city assessor died of blood poisoning caused by a pimple on his face Speyer & Co New York bankers purchased Stanford estate holdings in the Southern Pacific amounting to 285000 shares In accordance with a dying wish the ashes of Mrs Clara Karl were scattered from the Statue of Liberty in New York bay.
The article reports jail sketches of Dick Coleman the Toledo mayor’s employer’s wife killer, and notes Coleman’s claimed campaign outlay for an Ohio gubernatorial bid totaling $500 personal expenditure and $7,866 by his non partisan committee. It also mentions 500000 new cotton spindles to start in South Carolina next year and records a slor a hanged at Augusta Say Cor Silling A. A. Seago.
A compendium of stale journalistic phrases and clichés gathered from telegraph editors and copy readers. The examples include awkward attributions, cautious hedges, and melodramatic wording showing how common triteness intrudes into newspaper copy.
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