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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1888
Page
4
The readable text is garbled. It mentions Daly and possible names, but no clear event, date, location, or outcome to summarize into a factual newspaper item.
The piece details Ramadan customs in Istanbul including fasting by all classes, nightly feasts, city revelry, calls to prayer, and the sultan’s example. It notes beggars, edicts against public alms, Ramadan dinners, and the festive streets of Tambour and St Sophia. It ends with an Oxford student life sketch and university structure observations.
Philadelphia celebrates its Fairmount park lily collection with varieties from pink New York to Victoria Regina. A new yellow water lily from French gardener Latour Marliac, six inches wide, joins the display. Only two other yellow species are known, one North American and one Brazilian.
A London Globe piece on British miners and their dogs explores the deep bond between pitmen and their canine companions. It honors the dog’s loyalty and willingness to fight, framed by the miner’s stern standards and ultimate respect for valor in battle.
Edgar I Wakeman details Gloucester mackerel fishing with two 35 foot schooner seine boats and two seines for shoal and deep water, each about 30 fathoms deep. The catch shows dazzling surface breaking schools. crews work fast, flank the school, gather fish, and scoop them aboard. fish are split, jib removed, and prepared as pickled barrels or sold fresh.
A collage of excerpts discusses voluntary attention as a sociological power in hard conditions, criminal adaptability, and civilizational progress. It critiques habitual medicine taking, cites Ribot on attention, and blends humorous quotes about actors and oysters, reflecting varied periodical snippets.
A quirky tale from the New York Tribune describes a white haired old man selling cough drops as a miraculous invention in Park row. He touts health benefits while a bookkeeper dismisses the pitch with humor and skepticism as the scene unfolds.
A mixed clipping shows comic snippets on commerce and social life. humor contrasts creditor debtor talk with weekly Thursday calls for payment and family banter about Christmas shirts and church talk.
A fragmentary passage describes a moonlit lovers scene with Edward and Fanny and a jest about paying a stable bill. Interleaved are quotes from the Journal of Education favoring humane conduct and a Lincoln Journal debate on a prizefight, darkness, and hypothetical outcomes.
A collage of poems and quips skewering school life and society. Excerpts lampoon school hours, prizefighting news, religious jokes, and bathos from multiple papers, with witty asides about editors and public fads. The items juxtapose light verse, exchanges, and cartoonish dialogue from 19th century newspapers.
The Dress magazine, edited by Annie Jenness Miller, is touted as the sole sage cine publication worldwide offering natural body friendly dress, artful appeal, and home interest. The editor is praised for advocating dress suited to the body, with Miller noted for beauty and intelligence. Subscriptions are $2 yearly with $1 in patterns, single issues 20 cents, published at 253 Fifth Avenue, Newark.
A ledger of 19th century inventions lists steamboats reapers sewing machines and electricity then praises the telephone and ends with Dr Pierce’s purgative pellet touted to relieve suffering and add comfort and luxury of the age.
A witty exchange from the New York Sun contrasts indigestion from others meals with a tramp. Safeguards against cholera are discussed by Max Von Pettenkoffer, who sees contagion as malarial and airborne via soil dust and lungs, urging drainage and clean water. A Baltimore judge’s ruling on a husband not liable for a wife’s debts sparks a potential matrimonial stir in the joint municipal arena.
Elijah M. Harris, once noted in Illinois politics, now pursues the governorship as a candidate while Harris of North Carolina vows an active political push next year. Prohibitionist St Johns wife delivers teetotal speeches in Kentucky as part of the broad temperance effort.
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