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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1891
Page
9
A venting poem-like critique bluntly argues that excessive schooling crushes young minds. It catalogs subjects from Hygiene to Calculus and Geometry and portrays teachers forcing lessons in with forceful verbs. The stanzaic barrage highlights worn students, exhausted by relentless cram and the shuttered dream of learning.
An 1867 tale of a government scout near Fort Wallace who evades Cheyenne forces led by Roman Nose. After a bold trap and capture, he is strapped and later escapes during a gambling dispute, fleeing on horseback for ten miles, rejoining a wagon train toward the fort.
A humor piece recounts a Virginia Episcopalian horse tale with a Baptist barn joke, then a Polk County riddle about two widowers marrying each other’s daughters and the resulting kinship, concluding with a Tasteless Medicine gag about a drugstore sign and a wary old man.
A long extract discusses the earth as possibly honeycombed with subterranean caverns and a gulf stream sourced from deep in the earth. It speculates on steam explosions shaping mountains, earthquakes, and the role of subterranean waters, then shifts to stories about John Halifax, Gentleman and the life of Dinah Craik, ending with curiosity about Alaska exploration and a novel life-saving belt from Italy.
An account of a hunter’s tiger sighting and kill in British India. A doctor, Major, and narrator position themselves along a dry nullah. a tiger appears at close range, and a precise rifle shot ends the encounter. The piece blends adventure with a brief forward on domestic finances and a humorous anecdote about Horace Vernet on a train.
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