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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
10
Mitchell and vicinity reports include visits by Samuel Boylan and H Ve Mohr, law practice moves to Alexandria, family births and illnesses, church revivals delayed by grippe, and community events like Round Table, conjoining small notices of marriages, deaths, and real estate chatter.
The famed tenor Sims Reeves, waiting at a country junction, jokes with a porter about pay. Reeves plays a musical note to reveal the porter’s annual earnings, singing do re mi do as the porter looks on in disbelief before resuming work.
In a London club a conceited man bets he can command another to exit a corner. The quiet challenger orders him out, but delays repeating the command. After five minutes the boastful man tires, while the quiet man remains seated, promising to withdraw him only a week later.
A Scottish American man delayed his wedding by missing a train after a chatty grocer. He sent the telegram Dont marry till I come William. The bride, knowing her William, likely forgave the moment of mental confusion caused by the amusing episode.
Clem ent Scott recites a self important actor who complained that Ellen Terry kept laughing during a key scene. He wrote a sorrowful letter asking her to change her stage attitude claiming the moment could not work. Terry replied I never laugh on stage I wait till I get home.
An Indianapolis Sun item shows a mountain man warning a rider about Abe Gore, saying Gore recently had a boss stolen and implying danger if the rider travels past Gore’s shack, despite clarifying the horse isn’t the one stolen.
Uncle Allen Sparks cites a Chicago Tribune remark that several scholars claim prolonging life is as simple as keeping ample salt in the system. He muses that Lot’s wife might have survived with such balance, though he remains unsure.
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