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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1886
Page
2
A poem about a woman who enjoys a fleeting triumph at a ball and realizes love may prove unreliable. The speaker questions chastity and fidelity, contrasting courtship with a final moral about amorous vanity and the limits of romantic promise.
Mrs. Mason confronts her daughter Helen to sweep away domestic neglect while Helen pleads for a reasonable approach. Mae and cousin Mary observe, guiding Helen to press her case without scolding. Mac minors fears, but a public verdict prompts a pivot toward shared housekeeping norms.
Beecher urges readiness as death comes suddenly and often. He contrasts Old Testament death as harvest imagery with New Testament hope asleep in Jesus, urging lifetime purity of heart over mere outward religion and condemning empty church entertainments.
The text scorns Friday superstition citing a string of historic events tied to Fridays and notes Dr. Carl Zeiss of Jena improving microscopic objective lenses with new glass delivering clearer images and higher resolving power. It ends with a maxim on personal duties at home.
A sprawling Chicago News piece surveys harsh convent punishments in Mexico and grim medieval discipline, then pivots to a sprawling ramble on dieting and cooking. It riffs on Faulkner and Morse and jokes about epicures, oysters, and regional tastes across history.
A survey of horological curiosities features a transparent rock crystal watch from Paris 1839 with sapphire escapement and ruby axles, plus a one wheel clock from the last century. Other items include a 1649 musical clock in Wisconsin, a Salt Lake canary timepiece, a Lexingon 1774 clock tied to Lexington and a tambourine clock with magnetic butterflies.
In a dime museum a man hurls a blow into a lung testing device as patrons pay a penny or cigar to test their lungs. Granger boasts a five year job blowing dinner horns in a deer and dumb asylum, while a fakir complains the machine is being overworked. CrEDULITY is an instrument on which sharpers play.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from various sources, including a mock debate on ships and pronouns, quips about politics and tea farming, boyhood classroom lines, and light satire. Notable items reference a Western tragedian, London Punch jests, and a toothache tale from Kosciusko Murphy.
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