Fragmentary OCR Leaves Gaps in Local Notice
The readable parts show scattered terms like canal and Sta Moprift, but the text is garbled with unclear names and actions. No coherent event or entity can be determined from the available fragments.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1898
Page
8
The readable parts show scattered terms like canal and Sta Moprift, but the text is garbled with unclear names and actions. No coherent event or entity can be determined from the available fragments.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a local election note involving a person named Lonse or Lonse Mr. It mentions voting activity and possible public notice but lacks clear names, dates, or locations to confirm details. Further readable text would be needed to establish a coherent item.
Damaged OCR text yields a partial public notice referencing names, dates, and places. Readable elements suggest an event or action but details are incomplete and unclear.
Recounted notes of Paul Morphy’s visit to Richmond and Philadelphia describing a painting of a chess game with the devil. Morphy reportedly studied the board and claimed he could win for the young man, then demonstrated a rapid win. Various vignettes follow, including a rescuer saving a man from streetcar danger and a portrait of Sir John Moore’s death.
Sydney Smith delighted in country life with children who trained animals including a well educated donkey. Billy the donkey greeted them at meadow, and during a ramble Mr. Jeffrey mounted him, sparking an impromptu quatrain later recalled as witty verse.
A compilation of brief essay excerpts on coaching's decline the value of lightning rods in the Washington monument and reflections on ethics in society. Includes anecdotes from Blackwood's Magazine and Longman's Magazine plus a Danish royal classroom tale featuring King Frederick VI.
The New York Sun notes veneers on pine create doors that appear solid but cost about half as much as solid mahogany doors. Built up frames use white pine with thick wood veneers, offering durability and serviceability comparable to solid doors while keeping prices lower.
A celebrated naturalist hosts savants who test why a glass globe is warmer on its shady side than the sunlit side. The gardener reveals the globe was turned to avoid cracking, ending the paradox. A string of comic vignettes follows including a motherly aunt and a poker joke about manners.
A Chicago Times Herald report describes a young man in Arkansas facing a queer financial irregularity case. It mentions a copper cent swallowed by mistake and a doctor guiding him to cough it up. The piece also notes firefighting syringes used in England around 1682 and early waterproof series first made in 1720.
A European medical note on memory failure describes a writer losing recent details while recalling older events, and a patient who remembers visits only briefly. Anecdotes cover animal loyalties and a vaudeville-style miscue about impressionism. A New Orleans cartoonish vignette ends with a hat accident and quip about bricks.
The passage explains sea ice stages from sludge to brash to pancake and bay ice. It defines floe as a visible sheet and icefield as an unseen boundary, with pack ice formed by converging floes and sailing foe when wind breaks and scatters the mass.
A woman recalls Lord Rosebery defining memory as the feeling that surrounds us when we listen to a friend's original stories at a dinner. The remark appears in Harper's Bazar as a jolting mot about memory and storytelling.
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