Mitchell Local News Briefs Highlight Community Happenings
Mitchell and vicinity report busy week with post office changes Goochen new appointment by E D Carpenter and Congressmen Gamble Burke involved. Local events include Salvation Army oyster supper, Eastern Star card party, and church services amid extreme cold and a fatal Yankton asylum fire report.
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Davieon County
Goochen
E. D. Carpenter
Gamble
Burke
Washington
Webster’s
America's Raphael a Fiction in American Art Lore
A critic argues there is no genuine Raphael in America and that the so called “Fata Morgana” is a wholly imagined masterpiece. He notes only a few weak forgeries exist and the idea persists as a patriotic fiction echoed in art circles from New York to Boston and Baltimore.
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America
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Raphael
Europe
He Wanted a Pension Retold by Opie Read
A humorous Chicago Times-Herald tale follows Sam a colored man who seeks a government pension. He recalls serving in the Confederates with his young master and a skillet wound, prompting the pension agent to question eligibility and the absurd link to a government skillet.
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Opie Read
Sam
Waal
Chicago Times-Herald
A Woman's Way and the Rights of Women
The New York Sun quotes Mr. Stoggleback on how women seek equal rights yet preserve privilege. He notes women often claim the sidewalk path and expect men to yield, arguing persistent courtesy should be maintained while recognizing evolving gender roles.
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Stoggleback
New York Sun
Red Hair and Baldness Question Solved by English Doctor
An English physician explains why red headed people resist baldness better than those with fair or brown hair. Red hairs are thicker, with 80 000 red hairs ensuring a well thatched scalp, while blond or brown require far more hairs to cover. A professor notes magnetic needle deviations across central Russia, deflecting west east and even pointing east and west in different areas.
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Russia
The Duke of Devonshire and the Boy and the Hare
The Duke of Devonshire hunting near Baslow shoots a hare but a hedge-crossing boy warns him off. The boy, who says his father is a keeper, takes charge of the hare and delivers it to Chatsworth. The duke rewards the lad with a five shilling piece and sends him on his way.
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Devonshire
Chatsworth
Baslow
Meester
Fayther
Smart Little Girl Adds Her Way to the Top
A schoolgirl boasts to her father that she beat classmates in arithmetic by guessing the answer. The head girl fails with 12 the second 9 the third 11 and the fourth 14. When the teacher asks me she says 18 and is sent to the top as the clever guess.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Stratford on Avon duel of Shakespeare and Burns ends in humor
In a Stratford on Avon hotel smoking room an Englishman and a Scotsman clash over poets. John Bull proclaims Shakespeare the world’s only poet, Donald McPherson defends Burns, and a confident traveler asks who is Shakespeare Burns, calming the quarrel.
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John Bull
William Shakespeare
Donald McPherson
Robert Burns
Shakespeare Burns
London Telegraph
New Edition Proposal Mentioning Stucker Glue Thinly Veiled
In a Philadelphиa North American item a novelist proposes a marketing tweak for a popular work. He suggests replacing a kissing scene with a line attributing the act to Stucker's celebrated glue to boost sales and profits.
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Stucker
Philadelphia
In extremis clergy man misreads visitor at deathbed
A Cornhill Magazine vignette recalls a clergyman who, summoned to a dying railway worker, misreads the man’s social status and learns the patient is near death with the remark clean in right up to the neck.
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Cornhill Magazine
The Sickle of the Sphinx Unearthed Age Near Thebes
The oldest wrought iron piece, a roughly fashioned sickle blade, was found by Belzoni in Karmas near Thebes. Embedded in mortar under the Sphinx base, it is known as the sickle of the sphinx. Now in the British Museum, it is believed to be about 4,000 years old.
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Sanborn County
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Fla
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Yankton Insane Asylum
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Mitchell
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