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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1887
Page
6
A poet laments a love grown cold and hidden from the world. Both partners acknowledge change, struggle against fate, and wish they had died before love grew cold. The verse contrasts enduring tenderness with painful distance. The bitter truth remains unspoken.
A historical tale recounts Barnaby Munson, a Vincennes Indiana driver, facing road agents on a six day Missouri route to St Louis. He dies defending the coach at Murdock's Gap. three gang members die, and a cross-shaped rock near the scene marks the site known as Barnaby's Cross.
A child recounts reading Thanatopsis learned from a classmate and writes a short poem for her father. The narrative blends a tale of Louis XII and a boy Simon de Roche with domestic family scenes and a cowboy vignette illustrating courtesy and frontier hospitality.
The piece recalls Bancroft’s Lincoln memorial oration of 1866 with a detailed snapshot of the audience, including Grant and Butler, plus a memory of Peter Parley and Goodrich in Boston. It contrasts Hawthorne and Willis, notes Webster’s praise and 1848 Paris events, and closes with sketches of gypsies as musicians and a Lawrence Kansas anecdote.
Funny exchanges and absurdities parade in this collage of quips and cartoons. A bookish death at thirty eight, a playful pun about double life, and a parade of household mishaps meet evolving chat about evolution and ostrich losses.
A collage of courtroom quips and anecdotes lists Justice Byles delaying damages in a breach of promise case by asking if the father is dead. It recalls Roscoe Conkling’s sharp condemnations of witnesses and Justice Bramwell’s tangled street crossing questions. A grocer clerk joke about a leftover turkey follows. Don Quixote and Maxy musings close the snippet.
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