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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1909
Page
5
Fragmented lines ask where vanished hours and faces have gone and plea for memory. The speaker laments lost sensory echoes, scented colors, stairs climbed, and names forgotten, calling to recall a distant beacon. Wilkinson appears cited in McClure's publication.
The Renacimiento in Manila campaigns for reform in utilities while noting omissions in a list of subscribers to an investigation of the Manila Electric Light company. It also tells of a Chinese marriage among performers and a political dispute over fraudulent alderman votes involving Simeon Villa, a figure linked to the insurgency.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger piece recounts a drummer who, moved by overheard distress on a Chicago to St. Louis trip, collected donations for two starving men. He realizes the two were linked to coal and tea trusts, dodging a dangerous fate as the conductor redirects the act.
In Clifton Johnson's Nevada piece, Virginia City and Gold Hill are described as ruined relics of a once rich boom town. Dilapidated streets, boarded windows, and deserted mines mark the landscape while prospectors' holes scar the hills and the Comstock region shows decades of decay. A Scotchman recalls an old cabin with a rear cave as a gray cat slips through a broken window.
Consul James W. Ragsdale reports on Russian samovars as part of a brass and copper utensil industry. He notes widespread use in households, morning tea customs, and the shift to machine made lids and components, with annual output around $2,575,000 and extensive employment.
An 1860s style column argues against pajamas, praising old fashioned nightshirts for comfort and equality. It recalls Newport society, Fire alarm nights, and the moral tone of men in night attire. The piece reflects humorous social commentary on dress.
A quirky Maine note reports a Randolph man keeping a rat in a beer bottle as a curious charm while a Longfellow tale retells King Robert of Sicily meeting an angel in a moral fable. The piece blends humor with a Shakespearean style dramatic prose about power, humility, and penitence.
Cortlandt Field Bishop and Frank S. Lahm, two of America's leading aeronautics promoters, return to New York aboard the Provence after a year and a half in France. Bishop resumes the Aero Club of America presidency by unanimous mandate, bringing broad knowledge and plans to stimulate progress in heavier than air flight domestically and abroad.
A fragment from the New York Tribune recounts jokes and anecdotes about Harry Lauder and a medieval sultan with mirrors removed to dodge his own reflection. It notes New York City’s strong dog ownership culture and dog sales around $65,000 for the last year.
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