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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1894
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment hints at a scene involving people near a location with muted actions and unclear identity. The readable words suggest movement and possible social or investigative overtones but lack coherent context or complete details for a proper event summary.
Quaint excerpts recount a stubborn burro in Newport Rhode Island that balked at a streetcar crossing and was removed by helpers. Also featured are short notes on American sailors, shipping life, and a few quick humor items from period magazines and newspapers.
A quirky dialogue shows Dick Hicks asking if a papa can buy a little sister and brother. Mrs. Hicks replies yes, revealing humor about money and family. The joke continues with a classroom moment where a teacher asks about the great American desert and Tommy answers it as pie, delivered with a judge’s tag.
A detailed look at the pin manufacturing process describes a machine feeding wire through rollers and dies. The wire is clamped in grooves as dies come together to shape the pin, revealing the sequence of operations from wire entry to finished product.
A detailed sequence describes pin manufacture with a gauge cutting the length as a wheel holds and forms pins. Pins travel from the gauge to grooves, then rub against outside bands to roll and sharpen, pass files and grinding wheels, receive final polish on a leather band, and are collected before tin plating. The process ends with cleaning in weak sulphuric acid to prepare for plating.
A Parisian fashion note describes French women embracing bicycling and theater outings on a bicycle, then turning to hunting attire. The piece highlights hunting costumes and two street costumes with illustrations, noting lively, practical dress trends among French women.
A man from the East on a Kansas train is agitated and hiding a new worry. He explains he is seeking a friend in need and asks for a borrowed pair of socks after losing his own. He fears locals will mock his condition and warns he has gone past his stop to avoid exposure.
Baris Insurance announces a policy refusal that excludes insured tire coverage for anyone who uses hair dye, citing risk concerns. The move affects drivers seeking coverage and raises questions about scope and enforcement of the policy.
Describes a polishing and tinning sequence for pins. Pins and sawdust are tumbled to remove roughness, then separated by air. Pins go to zinc trays, are wired to a battery, and tin deposits on surfaces. After washing, pins are dried again in sawdust and reprocessed.
The article describes a copper lined polishing tub tilted about 45 degrees where pins slide and rub to polish. Previously mixed pin lengths were sorted by a machine, now kept separate for efficiency. Polished pins move to a ladder where they hang, slide, and are inserted into paper by a clever device.
A precise pin insertion machine pushes one pin from each slit into a sheet, spaces rows with a crimped wheel, and feeds a continuous strip for cutting by workers. The delicate mechanism stalls on a bent pin but can place up to 90,000 pins hourly, with girls folding and packing the finished sheets for shipment.
The last thatched London cottage near Paddington Green and St David's Welsh Church faces demolition as modern bricks replace historic relics. The two dwelling home sits beside a disused graveyard with a large thatched roof and dormer windows, set in a small country-like plot amid urban surroundings.
Patterson special reports a P. O. S. of A. benefit night featuring a nightgown drill with seventeen young women in light gowns, candles, and staged poses. The demonstration sparked town gossip as the audience watched the risqué recital with breaths held and no encore. Also recounted is a local bullfrog versus blacksnake tale from Wilkes County about the snake failing to swallow the frog after the frog clung to a bamboo briar.
The note claims 800 shots fired per man wounded in the late civil war and contrasts with awe over naval steamers burning 190 to 220 tons of coal daily. The brief juxtaposes wartime casualty figures with maritime fuel usage.
A Harpers Young People writer extols the Tower of London as a monumental link to history. It notes Saxon origins, Roman remnants, and William the Conqueror’s plan, comparing its antiquity to Europe’s great palaces. The text highlights royal, literary, and historical associations rooted in cry and glory.
A sealing brig foundered in dense fog when breakers struck a reef. Forty men, lacking food and clothing, marched along ice toward Cape Bonavista under Captain Knight’s lead. They battled fatigue through a brutal, fogbound hundreds of yards until a rescue vessel appeared near sunset.
The narrative notes that escapees were guided by Providence and led by Captain Knight, who described how they missed the situation from either direction and were saved by a higher guiding hand.
A London memoir excerpt recounts Watlington a man famed for calm temper and caution. He repeats the refrain it may be so but then again it may not while detailing a hunting outing where a gig ride turned risky, nearly ending in a pond dash before escaping harm.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett recalls Fauntleroy's first appearance in Paris on April 5, 1876. She describes an impenetrable disguise that fooled even the wary and transformed the boy into a fashion inspiration and literary icon. The note reflects early plans and the calm, innocent exterior observed as he slept in a long nightgown.
A Pearsons Weekly excerpt recalls an Italian image seller who for thirty years carries a tray of statuettes on his head yet never sells any. He explains he earns a living though buyers break the pieces in crowds, causing the crowd to pay for damaged items.
A would be poet hides his verse in secret then seeks fame after a moon sonnet fails to appear in a popular journal. An editor’s notice reveals the author is a tailor whose poor couplet ends with a satirical jab about his ascent to Parnassus.
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