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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1897
Page
4
In Chicago Times-Herald style, two neighbors argue over a nurse and gossip. One woman recalls paying her nurse more, sharing evenings off, and using the nurse to glean secrets about Hattie. The result is a strained relationship as the nurse returns to the other neighbor.
A Kansas farmer recalls a tornado that wrecked a mortgaged house while a dog and a clever tale about cyclones entertain a train car’s passengers. The piece also includes reader letters and a patron’s request to fund travel for Cornhill Magazine contributions.
A brief comic exchange from the New York Press notes a man buying a balloon for his wife and her apparent delight. The lighthearted item captures city humor without further context or detail.
A reminiscence traces the close friendship of H. C. Bunner editor of Puck and Lawrence Hutton. They bond over pranks and shared moments from single life to marriage with playful gifts and notes. The piece shifts to a note on Elzevir’s Patissier Francois and a 1895 Sotheby’s sale pricing.
An early 20th century note reports a bank robbery trap idea using a floor drop beneath the pay window. A robber would be lured to demand funds, trigger the concealed drop, and be captured by a spike-lined chute as police are alerted.
A playful meditation on eclectic bicycle inventions imagined by a witty mind, ranging from artist wheels with paints to dairy carts and milking stands. The piece blends humor with a critique of modern trades and memory in graveyard epitaphs.
A new method to cut a ring from a single diamond stone was demonstrated at the Antwerp exhibition. The process faces many difficulties due to vein cleavages that must be avoided to prevent splitting. After three years of effort M. Antoine, a leading Antwerp lapidary, accomplished the feat. the ring measures about six eighths of an inch. In the Marlborough cabinet a ring cut from a sapphire exists.
A poorly clad village girl enters a stationers shop and asks for writing paper. The assistant quotes 15 cents per quires and the girl asks to buy half a quire, offering ten cents if possible. The vendor considers the request.
A youthful Chamberlain tale recalls a crowded Irish Sea crossing during Gladstone's era. A private secretary with a beard befriended a Scotchman who proposed age before honors, letting the wee lad sleep on the door while the rest took berths.
A traveling physician describes Persian beliefs that human tears cure certain illnesses and that mourners collect tears in bottles after funerals. The piece notes the Old Testament reference and links cold shoulder to a historical French practice, with a brief, garbled mention of Hege Bar Yard in Massachusetts.
A survey contrasts European and American art stressing that American art should embody American ideals rather than outdated European motifs. It cites Uncle Tom's Cabin, Irving, Humboldt, Audubon, and Twain as examples of distinct American contributions shaping a national art ethos.
Plants propagate by seed or buds. Buds on runners allow new plants to form as the runner separates from the parent. Grasses like Bermuda and couch spread via creeping stems, with joints that root and bud, making control difficult and rapid land takeover likely.
In a playful exchange the narrator defends a whistling routine as health therapy. Stimson questions the claim while the speaker cites chest expansion and rib support from compressed air treatment as proof, labeling critics as fools.
A New York Letter recounts Mr. Morrison’s stage memories including a malfunctioning fifth act trapdoor and a hotel breakfast encounter with a waiter who recalls Mephisto. The anecdote ends with the waiter joking that he could not see any nigger in hell.
A Washington Post anecdote recounts Oliver Wendell Holmes welcoming his Maryland classmate John Borman Kerr to Boston with a rapid spell out of his name. The tale highlights Kerr’s aristocratic pride in spelling and Holmes’s playful memory.
A Green Bay anecdote recounts John Anthon in court chiding Edmund J. Porter with a pun about bottling up Porter. Porter retorts he shall foam. The tale contrasts Anthon's solemn courtroom demeanor with a moment of playful banter.
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