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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1893
Page
6
A damaged OCR style fragment presents lines of intimate reflection about love hate and motherhood. The text hints at a personal meditation on affection and the baby, though several words are garbled and incomplete.
In a torrid summer, Hester fears a fatal dream about fire and a doomed train. Her fiancé George, a fireman, ignores danger, leading a fateful excursion that ends with a plunging wreck. George survives by rescuing others, but falls gravely ill. Hester blames herself and recalls the warning as they marry.
Our Animal Friends notes many fishes stay still from December to Easter and sometimes longer. At a Newcastle Ontario hatchery under Mr. Wilmot a large eel remained unmoved for months, and carp lay at the tank bottom awaiting ice melt. A New York hospital tale records a goldfish frozen in a jar reawakening when ice splits, swimming again in a different tank.
A hedgehog ambushes a sleeping snake by biting the tail, then rolls into a spiny ball. The snake struggles, its jaws damaged by the quills, while the hedgehog drags it and consumes the reptile as breakfast. The tale ends with the hedgehog remarking on the snake's folly.
A sociologist asks if life strain is higher now than in the past. The piece cites a larger leisured class yet fiercer competition, demanding greater excellence from professionals and educated workers across all sectors. The quote from the Boston Journal appears as a side remark about a bourbon pretender.
A San Francisco Examiner writer argues that transport speed is surging beyond 100 miles per hour, with steamers faster than old rail norms and locomotives capable of 100 mph. The piece warns that safety measures like grade separation, double tracks, automatic blocks, and city access upgrades must arrive before such speeds become common.
A German, Austrian and French schoolroom mishaps showcase pupil misreadings and funny wrong answers. An Austrian pupil defines coalition wars as four named as the first, second, third and fourth, while a ship is the camel of the sea and a marmot allegedly wakes only when struck dead. A French boy on marsupials says pouches are for concealment when pursued.
A compact survey of famous stammerers including Moses, Aaron, Louis XIII, Louis le Begue, Tallemant des Beaux, d Alamont, Admiral Annenabant, Tartaglia, Boissy d Anglas, David, Hoffmann, Camille Desmoulins, and Mrs Inchbald. It notes their efforts to overcome speech impediments and mentions accompanying figures who helped or mirrored their traits.
A narrator recalls watching a chimpanzee mesmerized by a mirror. The animal remained entranced, eyes wide, trembling, and vocalizing "achru" which the observer ties to heat and light. After tests, the chimpanzee awakens, showing surprising comprehension and response to stimuli.
An Irish barrister Bethel boasted of pamphlets. A witty friend praised the pamphlet’s finest aspects but confessed the best parts were mince pies from a pastry shop. The humor lies in the misplaced praise and the pastry pun.
In a pleasant Ladies' Home Journal sketch Arthur Warren portrays the German Empress Augusta Victoria as unambitious and uninterested in public applause. The piece notes Wilhelm II remains the dominant force in European affairs while she avoids political influence and prefers private life.
A Washington Starman recalls a Erie Railroad night chase from Harrisburg to Sunbury when the locomotive Davy Crockett nearly ran a collision course. Oil poured on greased rails thwarted the pursuing engine, saving the excursion train and earning the nickname for years.
A Greensboro Record report notes Edward Daves and others seek North Carolina residents to reclaim Roanoke Island land tied to Sir Walter Raleigh's 1584 colony. They offer 250 acres including historic remains and aim to raise 1500 dollars in 25 dollar shares to purchase the grounds near Manteo, site of Virginia Dare's birth and early English settlement.
Baltimore residents organize to buy 250 acre Roanoke Island tract where Raleigh built the first 1584 fort. The site, including ruins, can be bought for 1500 dollars. A company will issue 200 shares at 25 dollars each, creating a small annual income to maintain and protect the property.
The earliest known fishing writings are linked to Oppian around A D 198 and Atheneus, showing many so-called modern fishing topics existed long ago. A man often misreads himself as cautious, much like a near sighted person who thinks he can see far.
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