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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1887
Page
6
A short poem in which a wife argues for equal control of household finances and urges her husband to contribute both ways. She describes heavy personal bills and suggests a common fund or shared purse would strengthen trust and affection, proposing the husband learn to spend and decide jointly.
A penniless schoolteacher Ellice Gray endures poverty and social scorn while resisting a wealthy suitor. After two years of hardship she learns Roy Carlton has fallen on hard times and, blind, awaits renewal of life. She visits him in Shafton to propose marriage, and Roy, surprised and grateful, accepts, soon regaining hope and sight through her love.
The piece argues that small stones benefit soil by disintegration and top dressing of fertility ingredients and moisture retention, while only large stones impede plowing. It asserts gravelly loam with stones favors crop growth and cites various old quips and anecdotes from newspapers.
A fragmented newspaper item humorously mixes quotes about feminine readers and odd courtroom banter. A woman faces a poisoning accusation with her husband surviving. the judge asks for a defense and a post mortem. Jokes about a young mother and Major Beeswax provide light heresay humor.
A Boston Herald description praises Atlanta's Woman's Exchange as a well run center with five rooms including parlor lunch room toilet room and display and sale areas. It notes hands on management low lunch prices sociable spaces and a market for handmade goods linking earners with buyers without heavy competition for machine made items.
A vivid slice of early 20th century life blends a sharp dressmaker’s ethics with a discussion on marriage dynamics. The piece contrasts fashion vanity and female autonomy with a sociable meditation on monotony, variety, and the evolving nature of lifelong partnerships among diverse readers. It also weaves in anecdotes about General Grant’s family, public education abroad, and a portrait of Rose Terry Cooke’s Connecticut garden.
A miscellany of humorous quips and verse about etiquette voices, a gibe on a groom in Kalamazoo, and light satirical vignettes. The column features jokes about bans on loud singing, a pun filled exchange about Shakespeare, and a playful travel nod to Kalamazoo’s courtship and romance with a Western accent.
A captain recalls a Florida coast tale of a man who used a fish-line to prank a flock of flamingoes. Birds returned, tripped and danced as the line pulled taut, then fled when startled. The story ends with the captain noting his specimen agrees it’s a prisk tale.
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