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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1893
Page
2
Two travelers named Faith and Reason journey as companions for a season. Reason seeks all knowledge of matter and mind, while Faith seeks the God behind the stars. He proclaims the earth a rolling ball and unlocks science. she finds the divine through feeling and attains the key to heaven, parting ways as his worldly quest fades.
Jim, an urban drifter, returns to Wisconsin only after striking it rich in New York. He brings a thousand dollars secretly, disguises it in a sugar bowl dinner, and watches his mother faint with joy as debts vanish and the family feast resumes. He vows monthly aid, while his friend from Maine resolves to return home too.
The Harvard Lampoon recalls Western custom of grave markers a white cross and fence. A cowhand explains the lone cross in Mud Flat Cemetery as noted for its grim history of timbers scarved out and the last man wedged by the fence. A Burnt child dreads fire yet keeps playing. More women seek elopement chances away from men than with them.
A Reminiscence Club account recalls a young Thomas A. Edison arriving in Memphis as a telegraph operator. He wore rough clothes and quickly proved himself on the St. Louis line, outpacing veteran workers with copperplate precision and rapid keystrokes. The piece notes Edison’s early mastery and later shift away from rugged attire.
An African explorer recounts a lone elephant hunt beside a lake where a single misstep exposed his position. He fired at the charging giant, the tusks gouged the ground, and the elephant veered away as the herd fled, leaving him alive by providence and quick reflexes.
An American devised a novel carriage design featuring a dog cart with a box seat and steering rod. A front wheel holds two dogs driven by their forward motion, but the plan collapses under total weight of about 350 pounds including a 150 pound woman.
An eminent dentist explains tooth formation: enamel from scalp skin epithelium, dentine from mucous layer beneath, tooth pulp remaining as the nerve. Thirty-two permanent teeth follow twenty deciduous teeth with root absorption starting around age six, and a six year old with all teeth formed may have fifty two teeth in progress.
In a moving car conversation, a debate on whether white cats are deaf leads to anecdotal proof from Maine about a deaf aunt and a cat that could not hear the clock. The group remains skeptical until one man, claiming to know white cats, urges decisive action and says, Give him the belt.
The Washington report notes the White House stairs carpet worn by 99,000 job seekers, with three inch nails holding it in place and giant footprints flattening the pile. The piece calls Congress to fund further stair carpet to bear the rush created by office seekers.
A Globe Democrat quote discusses how Chinese laundries use business names like Ling Lungs Sam Lees and Wong Chings, while owners keep family names private. The speaker notes Chinese people care little for the label you call them as long as you pay for services.
The earliest notice of artificial eyes appears in Ambroise Pare's 1561 La Methode Curative des Playes et Fractures d la Teste Humaine. Pare describes hollow gold spheres coated with enamel to replace an eye, noting designs resemble modern glass eyes.
A strolling player posing as a poacher was brought before magistrates after a hare killing. In a Brutus style speech he argued hunger justified his act, provoking magistrates who, amused by his plea and last wish for a good appetite, granted him a reprieve.
A fashionably dressed man overhears a bootblack recite Shakespeare and learns newsboys and bootblacks admire the poet. The man notes street youths abroad adore Shakespeare and cite lines, with cheap galleries often crowded when a Shakespeare play runs.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph notes a French Besancon operation producing artificial silk from collodion and wood pulp. The thread is formed mechanically, and ammonia treatment reduces flammability. Quality varies, and no clear use in textile industries is stated yet.
Mexico is praised as a fruit homeland with strawberries bought for a few cents per quart daily year round. Oranges lemons limes figs and four kinds of bananas including the sugar banana are grown along with foreign fruits such as guava custard fruit yepata mango and butter fruit. A man can get along better with a mother in law than with wersan.
The United States government keeps about three hundred cats across fifty post offices to guard mail and pasta from rats and mice. Cats are paid modest sums, fed to maximize hunting, and used in Washington buildings and various departments to prevent damage and even fires caused by rats gnawing matches.
A New York social circle tale recounts Mrs. Bradley Martins asking George de Forest Grant to share his first floor apartments for her niece. Grant replies with whether the niece drinks, prompting Mrs. Bradley Martins to insist she does not drink. Grant ends the exchange by noting it is easier for the niece to get upstairs than for him to give up his rooms.
A New York Evening Sun excerpt describes the first and only hair doctor, a woman who studies hair as others study lungs or nerves. Her class convenes in an uptown drawing room with students in fashion, using a head as a lesson aid, a manikin, and a micro scope. Hair washing is rare, limited to twice yearly, with brushing and massages to stimulate secretions while avoiding disturbance to hair plants described as growing on the beach garden.
Professor Edward R. Shaw of the school of pedagogy conducted handwriting experiments on over 1500 pupils to test if free writing with eyes closed yields more vertical lines than current methods. Results show an average difference of about twelve degrees, and say most desks are improperly constructed for teaching a desirable writing method.
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