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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
7
In a domestic fable set within a family, the younger partner grows rapidly and leaves home. The Senior and General Manager endure sorrow and confusion as the long Junior Partner departs with his belongings, while the old partner and family adapt to the sudden change and welcome him back at twilight.
In 1863 Edwin Booth settled near Greenwich and joined the local church where Rev. B. M. Yarrington noted his devout practice. Booth delighted in visiting families and especially in afternoons with children, saying such moments helped him understand Shakespeare’s meanings and lifted his spiritual life.
Barbara Boyd argues beauty often wins affection before marriage but can fail to sustain happiness. A good natured woman, sunny and unselfish, may win lasting marriage by charm and effort, while beauty risks coldness and ego. The piece contrasts six groups to weigh matchmaking outcomes.
In a small town during a large convention the hotel owner leased a church across the street to house overflow guests. Two drummers, drunk, slept in the church while the bell, also the fire alarm, rang at 2 AM drawing the fire brigade. One drummer demanded two Scotch highballs and ice water to Pew 17.
The Tribune reprints from Lippincott's Magazine a peculiar will of I. Charles Lounsberry a young lawyer who died years ago in Cook County Almshouse ward for the insane. The document bequeaths to various groups from children to lovers and young men a world of imagined joys and memories, with careful notes on use of words, flowers, waters, and songs.
A New York Tribune excerpt notes Giovanni Ventures five act tragedy Rosmunde claimed as the shortest play in a Berlin article by Milton Begovic. It describes kings Alboin and Rosmunde with Perideus in acts I through V including a skull wine scene, a dagger plot, and a curtain reveal.
A Miles of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers chief posed an amusing speed puzzle at a New York ban quet. He listed varied estimates from a chauffeur private opinion to court and farmer views, noting maker guarantees while joking about car misperceptions and luck with horseshoes.
The Sioux City Tribune notes the book The Conquest of the Missouri by Joseph Mills Hanson, a biography of Captain Grant Marsh with vivid steamboat histories. It highlights famous boats Nellie Peck Far West and Coulson Packet company and recounts a Sioux City to Fort Benton race with Marsh at the helm and lasting legacies of river navigation in the Missouri.
A poetical sketch praises Adirondack scenes from lake and crest to streams and fern shade. The narrator, Richard Wightman, extols fishing, woodland hush, and a rugged outdoor life as a snapshot of adventure and contentment in a Success Magazine piece.
A wreck intrudes on Harper's Weekly with a coal-dusted engineer found beside his engine in tears after being pulled from under twisted steel. He mourns his lost cap as onlookers witness the scene and the human toll of the disaster.
A derailed train passenger conductor crawled from the wreckage and aided rescuers for about thirty minutes before the wreck train arrived. The man explained his watch had stopped and he could not tell the time, prompting the wreckmaster to shake him to revive him.
A western church's early pastorate recalls Dr. George H. Ferris and a deacon known for pious conduct who lapses during a prayer service. The incident unfolds as the elder slumbers and the preacher seeks a reluctant lead from Brother Jones amid a faltering start.
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