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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1886
Page
2
A garbled poem fragment from WY SHIPS by L Wheeler Wilcock imagines ships returning home to gain wealth. Repeated lines reveal a longing for the one ship at sea to come home while others perish, hinting at storms and fortunes tied to maritime fate.
In Paris a tense debate over a supposed cowardice leads Major Clare and Lieut Trevelle to a zoological garden. Trevelle saves a child from a bear after a dramatic tree escape, earning praise from Bardette and proving Trevelle no coward in a public moment of peril.
The essay argues that clothing reflects character and can shape confidence, noting Haydn and Skobeleff as examples. It questions whether dress drives virtue or virtue drives dress, cites Quaker simplicity, clerical fashion, and African observations, and ends with a joke about sign reading and a digression on horn combs.
A fragment from Sabbath reading links a forgotten key to a home memory and laments loss, then shifts to a Chamber’s Journal discussion asserting the Church’s victory over liquor traffic. It argues the liquor question affects all states and urges unity, education, and moral action in a looming broader conflict.
A traveling sales drummer seeks a farmer's daughter by visiting the Smith home. He brags of business schemes to win her, but the farmer refuses permission to approach the premises. The tale contrasts his flawed courtship with a blunt, unflattering character sketch.
A collage of quirky lines, puns, and anecdotes featuring misheard speeches, shy poets, and playful dialogue. Bits include a printer gag, astronomy quip, a street scene with Sipkins, and a moral about whisky, all rendered in a dated humor column voice.
The article notes lava and pumice on the ocean bed with widespread dust from meteorites piled at depths around 2350 fathoms between Honolulu and Talita. It mentions continuous bombardment by cometary bodies and ends with a odd aside about Corfin the tenor and a man named Coffin.
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