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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1887
Page
2
Fresh gossip and anecdotes about actors unfold in a Galveston News inspired piece. A burlesque star receives a bouquet amid a rehearsal anecdote about Macklin tempering his team. Lotta’s early life traced from New York debut to wealth and fame.
The Deutsche Zeitung notes Vienna’s theater scene fell sharply from 2,811 public representations to 1,837 last year. Amateur stage plays dropped below 200 from 704 in 1876 while music halls thrive with over 300 singers and nearly 19,000 performances last year.
A survey of star performances by Fanny Davenport Margaret Mather and Pauline L Allemand notes a shift toward realism with increasingly dangerous stage falls. The piece highlights Davenport dramatic leaps, Mather drop in Romeo and Juliet and the evolving athletic training for tragedy.
Excerpt from a devotional piece citing Dr. Arnot on sanctification as a constant struggle. It compares faith to iron held by a current in a wire with life flowing from Christ into a believer and back to the Lord, warning that breaking the connection endangers the believer.
A mother inspires her child to serve Jesus by delivering jelly and oranges to a sick neighbor. The child learns that helping others is the same as serving the Savior, recalling the teaching Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto me.
A sentimental portrait of an elderly mother, serene and loving, who bears years of loss with grace. Her calm strength, charitable heart, and steadfast devotion to family shine as she faces widowhood, distance, and the changing world with faithful resignation.
A reminiscence recalls Grant’s papers at the White House and confederate archives, and sketches notable English and American connections. It surveys wealth of early presidents from Washington to Cleveland, noting estates, losses, and post office fortunes with anecdotes about Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Grant.
A Boston Record recipe collection notes several oyster dishes. It describes a mock roast with drained liquor, little pigs in blankets wrapped in bacon, panned oysters with butter, salt, and pepper, and an oyster loaf built from fried bread crumbs, cream sauce, and seasoned oysters, baked until crisp and served hot.
The Boston Globe describes Ninety young girls in airy costumes and thirty to forty young men rehearsing the Wallet for the National Opera Company in a bare cold Boylston Hall. Light streams through southern windows creating patches on the floor as Italian and English chatter fills the space.
The piece recounts William H. Herndon recalling Abraham Lincoln’s humor and mood in the office, his frugal accounts and odd habits with money, and his loves including Miss Ann Rutledge. It also notes Lincoln’s later life, his courtship, and a few schoolroom jokes and moral tales from Youth’s Companion.
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