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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
12
A poet reveres a baby's bedtime prayer to restore faith long faded. The speaker recalls childhood beliefs as the child repeats "Now I lay me down to sleep" and acknowledges doubt fading in the presence of a baby's plea. The piece, attributed to the San Francisco Examiner, links maternal memory and spiritual reassurance across generations.
Theodora Dale, a widow and former governess, faces debt and scorn from a landlady over unpaid rent. She sells her jewelry to pay, takes up music teaching, and rises to prominence as Signora Theodora Dalli. Chandos Dale falls for her, but she outwits him by revealing his brother Lionel’s marriage. She then marries a young Englishman, securing independence and destiny of her choosing.
The article traces how Cape Colony and Natal towns got their names. Durban honors Governor Benjamin Durban. Grahamstown and Harrismith recall Col. Graham and Col. Sir Harry Smith. Caledon Beaufort Somerset Cradock derive from Governors, while Ladysmith Port Elizabeth Lady Grey honor governors' wives. Kimberley uses Earl of Kimberley, Colonial Secretary 1870–74, reflecting its rise as a mining town.
A sample of phrases used by oriental advertisers highlights bold comparisons, such as goods dispatched like a cannon ball, parcels wrapped with care like a loving wife, and printing as clear as crystal, with silks and satins described as smooth as a lady's cheek and rainbow colored.
A French scientist covers champagne corks with a copper layer electro deposited to prevent gas loss. The text notes optimism thrives when the bright side is visible.
A collage of kid activities and stories from St Nicholas and Youths companion features. The tin-spoon top craft shows how to make a flying tin machine, Timothy Brown’s tale teaches self-reliance, Norna’s acorn becomes an oak with a lesson, a feather game thrills a party, and early reader quips explain engagement and laziness with simple moral humor.
A New York Sun item recounts four strangers who meet by chance in a cafe and discover they share the same birthday. Each claims birth dates and ages align, and each admits a compulsion to lie on that day. The tale hinges on coincidence and a test of truthfulness among the men.
A rainy night scene in Red Hook places Ada Rehan on a trolley with a man named Arthur. The conductor recalls her as Bridget Crehan from school, though theatrical biographies do not list that name. The mother lives near German-American stores on Cottey Street and the brothers and family are part of the neighborhood chatter.
The inaugural industrial exhibition is dated 1569 in the Nuremberg rath haus. A contemporary catalogue states its aim to reveal global innovations and domestic arts, framing the event as a world trade showcase. The second sentence warns against living beyond a single day, a distant moral aside.
The article recounts the 1787 voyage to Botany Bay with 1,017 aboard, noting transportation of convicts sparked colonization. It highlights philanthropy behind the policy, Sydney’s parks and reserves, and the Sydney Botanical Gardens as the colony’s notable features.
The late Sultan Mulai Hassan stood about six feet three inches and was dark skinned with some Negro ancestry. He wore spotless white clothes of fine material, never jewelry save a silver ring with a diamond. He kept changing robes daily, and his wardrobe was vast. On journeys he carried most possessions on camels and teased servants to fetch items sent from the Belgian minister and the Queen of England.
Workmen at Bellefonte Furnace Company's ore pit uncovered a huge solid iron ball too heavy for a steam crane. It required a steam hammer to break it for loading onto cars, revealing a sixty five ton mass. Geologists consider theories from ancient molten state to meteor fall.
A brief collage of humorous remarks about science, mirrors, love of words, and old sayings. It playfully contrasts honest boasting with useless promises, notes on marriage and folly, and hints at heart failure as a metaphor for medical ignorance.
A humorous dialogue from Chicago Times-Herald recounts a family debate on brains and gender roles. A father railings about women, a son questions, and a boys’ mischief with a hare medicating bottle leads to curiosity about the effect of a lotion on a bald man.
A six hundred year old loaf at Ambaston Derbyshire links to a crown grant during King John’s reign and remained with the Sour family. An eleven hundred year old octagonal house near the Ver river is the oldest inhabited dwelling in England, once called St German’s gate. The oldest marriage proposal exists in the British Museum, a 1530 B C cuneiform tablet from Pharaoh to the Babylonian king's daughter, about ninety eight lines on Nile mud.
A Philadelphia physician downplays deathbed fear, claiming few die with fear and that death is mainly parting rather than terror. The snippet also notes Africa’s linguistic diversity with nearly 700 languages and oddly references Boston considering an elevated railway to move trains of thought.
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