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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1893
Page
5
An incomplete OCR snippet mentions ages and a possible reference to a hand event. The readable portion lacks clear names, places, dates, or actions to determine a definitive news item.
Fragmentary text shows garbled names and phrases about payments and assistance. No clear event date or organizat ion is readable. Unable to identify persons or groups or a definite outcome from the fragment.
Readable fragments mention Paty Alabama and Mexico with references to logs and a location called Copiah. The text is garbled with many missing vowels and spacing issues, making a coherent event unclear. No clear person, organization, or date can be established from the legible portions.
The speaker recalls joyful childhood days blurred by time yet vivid in memory. Their mother and father provided comfort, smiles eased sorrow, and a cherished voice lingers as a guiding presence. The tone reflects nostalgic reverie from a personal column in a periodical.
Jack Smith follows a mystic ring and a mirror clue to Plattsburgh seeking Amy Verena Elliott. In Cedarcliff he meets Verena, learns of a past letter from Johnny Smith, and contemplates a romantic wager as the ring reappears in the mirror.
The piece presents a intimate moment where a character asserts that a dream may not have been only a dream, as foreboding eyes and veiled gaze hint at a prophetic omen. The dialogue suggests a shifting reality between dream and truth in a literary magazine context.
The licorice plant grows on river banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, in flat lands with hot summers and cold winters. It is a small shrub needing water, harvested in winter, dried for a year, and shipped via Bussorah to London and America for tobacco manufacture. Also guidance on room fumigation with sulphur and cleansing after.
The article surveys burial and cremation practices among various peoples. It notes Mohammedans bury without coffins, Romans and Greeks cremation, Indian remarriage customs, Greenland dog burial for children, Australian corpses tied and nails pulled, and Russians placing a character certificate in the hands of the dead for Saint Peter.
Prof Le Conte explains Niagara Falls erodes as shale beneath the limestone wears away causing the falls to recede. They reportedly retreat three to four feet yearly, with possible outcomes including a return to the lake or a rapids formation as limestone thickens. If current pace continues the recession to Lake Erie could take around twenty thousand years.
Murder verdict stands after N R Thompson is found guilty of killing Mrs Blighten in Arlington on July 4. Judge Andrews presided. motion for a new trial slated for the 24th. Thompson’s insanity defense failed as the jury imposed the death penalty. The crime followed disputes with his wife and a prior jail term for her earlier arrest.
The Deadwood Pioneer argues stock rumors and a forced timing of mine suspensions target tin shares in the Harney Peak Company. It asserts experienced miners and geologists know the Southern Hills tin lodes are valuable, despite public doubt and the company’s shutdown.
Rapid City Journal details show Humphrey’s cattle ranch on White River near Pine Ridge Agency hit by cattle theft. Indians killed five police and four ranch men, then shot thirty cattle. Agent Brown deploys 25 Indian scouts and Fort Meade troops placed on alert. situation reportedly quieting as scouting party returns.
The Milwaukee Company failed to meet timing and filing requirements for a right of way across ceded Sions lands to the Black Hills. A 640 acre tract near Lower Brule Agency drew races with buildings on wheels for choice parcels. Squatters may form a rival town to Oacoma. filings under homestead law were rejected at Chamberlain by US officers.
Pine Ridge dispatches claim Lower Irule Indians raid the area. Big Eagle, a Lowes Irule chief, calls the reports cheap lies and says only a crazed Indian died while hunting in winter, not an outbreak.
Jostam Winans died from head injuries believed to come from a family quarrel with his brother Clark Winans. A coroner's inquest led to Clark's arrest on murder charges. Evidence includes a skull fracture and multiple broken bones, with Josiah Winans allegedly implicating Clark before death.
A Potter County gentleman notes a peculiar disease called rothern passing in Lebanon with most recovering. The Schotten family suffered four child deaths within six hours then many cases with no further fatalities expected. Roy Kickel, 14, son of Hon. Charles Keith of Volga and state board president, was killed when kicked by a horse he was leading to water.
A rusty convict named John J. Wynn escaped from the Sioux Falls penitentiary. He had been sentenced from Beadle County to one year for grand larceny. Wynn was recaptured.
The South Dakota Legislature considers a joint House resolution to move the capitol from Pierre to Huron after 1894, with votes to postpone or advance. Bills discussed include removal of the agricultural college from Brookings to a point between Miller and St. Lawrence, banking organization, foreclosure terms, and various legal reforms. The Senate exonerates Brookings charges, approves governor nominations to the Board of Regents, and passes measures on grain dockage, mechanic’s lien wording, and a World’s Fair appropriation.
Tur Sunday School Magazine notes San Francisco with 300000 residents sits 55000 in churches capacity. Scales now measure the flame of a candle or a hair strand. A Mussulman candidate seeks a Cape Town legislature seat, the first non European since the Cape Constitution. Mrs Ewine claims feeding fifty students at 9 cents per meal, meals deemed good.
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