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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1886
Page
10
A fragment from a periodical mixes verse on farewell with brief anecdotes and social sketches. The prose passages discuss women in decorative arts, a Texas landlord tale, widow stereotypes, and a Russian society portrait of Sophie Vassilievna, detailing studies, travel, and linguistic talents.
Eulmand Noble analyzes Sophie Vassilievna a young Russian woman shaped by a mix of modern science Darwinian thought and socialist ideas. The piece notes her education in theology chemistry astronomy sociology and her admiration for Dostoevsky Chernishevsky and Pissarev and Bielinsky influence on free thought.
Annie Wakeman argues in the Boston Budget that ocean voyages are burdened by demands to fund sailors homes hospitals and card games. She laments paid stunts and piano music aboard ships, decrying social pressure to participate in lotteries and betting. She contrasts modern amusements with literature and science, urging a return to wholesome conversation.
The article describes dense clusters of waterbound villages around a lake. Fishermen and duck hunters inhabit half flooded huts reached by causeways across swamps. The people speak an Aboriginal tongue, resist outsiders, and live simply yet healthily, singing and drinking pulque in breezy, carefree communities.
Light magazine prints a long list of famous people who supposedly supported spiritualism. It groups believers into science poetry and social rank, naming figures such as the Earl of Crawford Wallace De Morgane Dunraven and Browning among others with foreign princes and past emperors also referenced.
The piece explains belt theory for locating oil, drilling equipment and processes, including derricks, engines, sinks, casings, and tubed wells. It notes torpedo charges of nitro glycerine to boost yield, cost ranges for wells, and the evolution of industry practices. It quotes Harper's Magazine on a traveling female commercial agent and briefly mentions coats of arms and 190,000 doctors.
When leaving or entering New York City, travelers are urged to use baggage expressage and a $3 carriage hire and to stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The 613 rooms are fitted at a cost of one million dollars with a European lift, restaurant, and direct access to horse cars, stages, and elevated rail to all depots. Families are assured better value at this first class hotel in the city.
A Cincinnati Enquirer report notes drug store owners fear a proposed Legislature appointed inspector with power to weed out frauds. The idea would expose substandard drugs in smaller shops and even dubious remedies in cases where prescriptions are minor.
A promotional piece urges workers with tiring or outdoor duties to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It claims the tonic restores energy, aids digestion, stimulates the liver, renews appetite, and promotes restful sleep, noting safe ingredients and broad social endorsements.
A Philadelphia Call anecdote tells of a man whose desk beside the telephone closet forces him to answer the bell up to a hundred times daily. One morning he awoke at 5 and, confused by sleep, shouted Hello to the closet, woke his wife, and after kicking the alarm clock, dressed in panic.
An in house newspaper style advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women’s ailments. It promises quick relief from functional disorders and claims to strengthen the entire feminine system with nervine and tonic properties. Price noted as one dollar at druggists.
A letter from Merv reports the Trans-Caspian Railway laid with rapidity. The locomotive runs 25 versts beyond Askhabad and the first train due at Merv early next April. At Mery six new European style streets completed and Kosht Khan Kali fort has begun a Russian town with railway offices.
A collage of notes praises Florida as a warm refuge for invalids including consumptives with mentions of Dr Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery. It notes opium dangers, cough syrups without opiates, real estate deals, and various patent remedies like Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and Dr Walker’s Vinegar Bitters. It closes with a note on the Vanderbilt name spelling and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
The note indicates Blaine is close to completing his history Twenty Years in Congress, with only about fifty pages left to publish. This marks a nearing culmination of a lengthy political memoir.
A collage of old advertisements touts Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup and other patent cures for coughs rheumatism and consumption. Claims include free bottle offers testimonials from Iowa City and Kewanee and product lines from Lyon Howe and Piso’s Remedy.
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