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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1886
Page
9
A fragmented poem titled Woman Gossip quotes a modern instance of parting with posturing and memory. It contrasts fading affection with lingering pride as an old bachelor recalls a youth and a past lover, noting the rose hue of recollection and its fragility. The piece ends with a garbled aside about conditions.
Seven years after decorative art for women began to take hold in New York and other cities, societies in New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore St Louis Buffalo Rochester and San Francisco have produced works valued at over 500000. The movements exhibit women skilled in lace painting embroidery tapestry weaving molding and carving, with opportunities for recognition and income in a expanding field.
The Atlantic essay sketches Sophie Vassilievna as a young Russian thinker shaped by Darwinist ethics, modern science, and socialist influences. It notes her grounding in theology, chemistry, astronomy, sociology, and literature, including Dostoievsky, Chernishevsky, and Bielinsky, highlighting her blend of idealism and cynicism toward oppression.
Annie Wakeman in the Boston Budget blasts sea voyages for leisure as a nuisance due to concert fundraisers for sailors hospitals and other appeals. She laments card games and piano bars on ships, criticizing trivial hobbies over literature, art, and science, urging manners, conversation, and restraint.
Along the lake, villages cluster on islets and swamps connected by causeways. The water people, largely fishermen and duck hunters, retain Aztec traits, speak a native tongue, avoid outsiders, and live in beaverlike huts. They seem healthy and content, singing and drinking pulque as they drift between huts.
Light magazine prints a threefold classification of believers in spiritualism. Notables in science include the Earl of Crawford Professor Wallace and De Morgane. in literature figures such as the Bar of Dunraven Gerald Massey Lord Lytton Thackeray and Mrs Browning. Foreign princes dominate the third class with Emperors of France and Prussia among others.
George R. Gibson notes in Harpers Magazine on early oil prospecting and the belt theory of oil pools, the drilling setup and equipment including derricks engines and casing, and the use of torpedoes with nitroglycerine to stimulate production, with cost ranges for wells and typical depths reaching 1,200 to 2,500 feet.
A Chicago house traveler describes a female drummer who travels, sells gents furnishings, stays in hotels, negotiates high bills, and bets on poker while charming clerks and admirers. The piece contrasts her independence with road life and notes her high expenses and bold mischief. The tale references medieval coats of arms and a claim about London doctors and armor.
When visiting or leaving New York City travelers are urged to save baggage and carriage hire and stop at the Grand Union Motel opposite Grand Central Depot. The six hundred thirteen rooms were fitted at a cost of one million dollars with rates from one dollar per day. The ad touts European law and an elevator taurant and notes horse cars stages and elevated railroad access to all depots. It claims families can live better for less at the Grand Union Hotel than any other first class hotel.
A Cincinnati Enquirer note recalls druggists discussing a fund to pressure the Legislature into appointing and funding a drug inspector. The aim is to expose and shut down fraudulent shops in small out-of-the-way venues where improper compounds and adulterated prescriptions are common.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for workers facing mental or physical strain. It claims the tonic renews vigor, aids digestion, stimulates the liver, improves appetite, and promotes restful sleep, emphasizing safe ingredients and broad endorsements.
A Philadelphia chronicler notes a city's polite man's irritation as his desk borders the telephone closet forcing him to answer the bell repeatedly. One morning he woke at 5 am and, in confusion, shouted Hello Who are you? at the alarm, waking his wife and tossing the clock aside before dressing.
An old column touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a quick remedy for female ailments and nervine tonic benefits. It notes price at one dollar, then shifts to a London-origin report on the Trans-Caspian Railway rapid progress toward Merv with new streets and a Kosht Khan Kali railway offices complex under construction.
A collage of health ads and literary notes, touting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for consumptives, Red Star Cough Cure, Walker's Vinegar Bitters, St Jacobs Oil, and Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Includes a joke about poet Bob Van Slyck and a note on opium suppression, plus a street corner lot lease and industry fetes proposal.
A collage of 19th century ads promotes WARNER'S WORM WHITD and Athlophoros tonics for coughs rheumatism and neuralgia with free map offers and druggist orders. Also promoted are Lyon's Patent Metal Detect, Saskatchewan Fife Wheat samples from W J Abernethy, and various catalogues and remedies including Howe Scales and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh priced at 50 cents.
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