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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1894
Page
4
A poem tracing McTockey from Kalamazoo to Kickapoo as a famed traveling man. He controls multiple ventures, enjoys wealth, but seeks new expeditions whenever spirits flag, commuting along many routes between New York and Michigan and keeping his life perennially on the road.
Billy Hagen a careful burglar builds a bank entering plot at the home of Mr. Slider, banker. The plan uses fake inspectors and police to trap the banker into a private bargain for 100000 in gold. Slider agrees, pays in gold, and later vanishes with the funds, rumored to live in South America.
Census data show population clusters align with rainfall totals from thirty to forty inches, where three fourths of people live and density averages 43.1 per square mile. highest density occurs with forty to fifty inches. Dry east regions below twenty inches hold few residents. Population growth accelerates in plains from Texas to Dakota with twenty to thirty inches. Moderate rainfall and temperature most favor population growth.
A Pearson's Weekly feature describes Arnold and the Donaldson brothers as master monkey performers with a secret mechanical tail. They train in zoological gardens, wear lifelike masks, and can hang ten minutes with elastic leg cords and a flexible backbone enabling contortions. The piece notes risks to acrobats include strains and hip dislocations.
The Scott’s Bluffs region along the Nebraska River earned its name from a tragic trek. After a canoeing party’s supplies failed, they abandoned Scott to die forty miles from safety. He crawled sixty miles before his death, leaving bleached bones later found near his grave.
A faded tale recalls a Kalispell man joining the train robbers chase fearing death from illness. He sought open air for health and to hasten the end if shot by outlaws during the confrontation.
A young man near a railroad in Helena Montana narrowly avoided a deadly impulse as he resisted the urge to investigate a pile of railroad ties that a bandit might use for hiding. Jones, the bandit, revealed he hid there and warned the youth he would have died if he had acted. The youth now values life more than ever after the close call.
Jean Szathmary and his wife marked their hundredth wedding anniversary in Zsombolyi Banat Hungary. Married in May 1798 they are said to be at least 120 and 115 years old given customs of 18th century Hungarian marriage ages. Officials and locals attended the official celebration and presented gifts.
In Tangier two adjacent prisons serve town criminals and national rogues. The larger facility houses three times as many inmates, with starvation used to quell unruliness, a practice condemned as unenlightened. Also notes swift sea creatures. The orca outpaces the true dolphin in speed.
A brief quip chats about a boy’s pocket money and a farm stay, noting that a cent shared by an old woman on a train led to a long journey with no nearby stores. The tone blends grim humor with rural hardship.
A French paper records a courteous dialogue between a young lady and a 70 year old gentleman. She extols his timeless youth, he replies with a bow that he is young enough to admire her charm and old enough to say so to her face. The office sought the colonel but he had a three day start and no reward.
The article reports the U S War Department backing private manufacture of guncotton and smokeless powder at a Wilmington Delaware plant after two years of tests at Newport Rhode Island. It notes 20000 pounds of guncotton shipped to New York and claims the American product is cheaper and superior to imported powder, with tests showing high standards and potential for six inch and larger naval guns. A quoted anecdote from a Scottish couple at sea follows this industrial update.
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