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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1893
Page
6
A reflective piece recalls a worn grindstone by the shed that shaped a boyhood. The narrator remembers turning it with his father and the lessons learned in patience and labor. Vivid scenes include the creaking wheel, the ax and hatchet work, and a treasured, painful nostalgia.
Rose Thornley, now Countess de Clairville, deserts an old beggar for fashion and love. A beggar woman's curse haunts her as Captain Lorraine deserts her after marriage. Blindness, ruined fortune, and betrayal end with a fatal carriage crash, sealing the curse.
The article argues that women are capable of outer life work and should have access to employment equal to men. It notes lingering biases in upper-class circles, urges opening suitable jobs to women, and compares female ambition to male drive, calling for meaningful, purposeful work for all.
A historical excerpt catalogs odd Japanese customs and manners including seating to ward him, mounting from the right, envelope addressing order, tipping on arrival, and corkscrew usage by waiters. The piece contrasts general practices with these observed quirks in a tersely ironic tone.
Agricultural journals suggest appointing a competent person in each fruit-growing area to oversee spraying of trees and vines to destroy insect pests. This would not stop proactive growers from extra spraying but would guard against negligent farmers who spread pests to neighbors' crops.
A new piano kept slipping out of tune, blamed on wave sound. A salesman tested the keys and discovered the real culprit was a folding door in the room. He adjusted the door mechanism and the piano played in tune, much to the customer’s surprise and later amusement.
A Maine Canada border tale depicts a cock leading his hens and wading into a millpond. The bird, famed for dust baths, unexpectedly swims toward the far shore, rising high like a duck as workers watch the crossing unfold.
A St Peters burg woman bought a showy lap-dog at high cost, later discovering the animal hid an enormous rat beneath its skin. A dealer and the animal’s deceitful handling triggered a lawsuit. Separate piece notes jockeys using electric spurs at a Chicago track and calls for bans on such devices.
A humorous medical dialogue advises sleeping on the inside in cold weather and on the outside in milder conditions, suggesting a hammock setup with ice for a pillow and a fee of two dollars. The piece echoes a second report condemning bird slaughter in rural France, noting declines of larks, goldfinches, nightingales, and swallows and linking it to insect outbreaks harming livestock and crops.
A German piper recalls a Roslin dyer awoken by burglars stealing dye-stuffs. The man grabbed a gun, forced the two intruders into a vat of indigo, threatened to shoot, and made them dive under the liquid several times before sending them to the street. The burglars were identified next morning. An offhand moral about nose blowing closes the item.
William Coville, once rich, fears the Anatomical Society will claim his body after death. He asks Pittsburgh undertaker James Fullerton to arrange a simple $3 burial in a coffin and an express wagon to the cemetery. Once a prosperous tin ware dealer, he has lived as a tramp.
Explorers recount a perilous ascent to a cliff tomb in Peru where two skulls and a mummy were found and nearly dropped to the abyss. The tale contrasts with notes on early printing, detailing Franklin’s era press and later Columbian and Washington presses shaping 19th century production.
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