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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1893
Page
3
In a chilly scene a pair of skates are traded amid talk of ice and winter weather. The speaker recalls winter’s harsher days and the scarcity of ice, noting a hurried swap and a near slip during the bargaining.
In a tense Brighton lodgings setting a young woman named Kitty uncovers a dangerous web around Robert Weston a forger in hiding from a detective. A plan to flee fails as a house becomes watched and Weston faces arrest until a twist reveals the true author of the forged check and a sudden restoration of justice.
The text surveys Congress actions on silver, tariff, anti-options, and World’s Fair issues. It notes no major retrenchment, offsets from pensions and rivers and harbors, and no public building bills passed except via sundry civil bills. It details fights for free coinage, repeal efforts, McKinley act tinkering, and Behring Sea and Hawaiian annexation topics alongside World’s Fair and immigration legislation.
Bob Fitzsimmons stops Jim Hall with a right blow in the fourth round at the Crescent City club arena in New Orleans. The Australian star earns 37500 for the victory while Hall takes 2500 and is carried from the ring briefly unconscious. The referee declares Fitzsimmons winner amid a loud ovation as Hall is revived and Fitzsimmons salutes the crowd.
Oxford County Maine leads in spool making with white birch strips turned into spools by automated mills. Mills harvest birch from vast forests. machines polish spools by barrel rotation. Shoe-peg factories use birch and maple. Maine holds over 1500000 dollars in shoe-peg reserves. Sawdust is compressed into fuel blocks for urban markets.
A Chinese banker named Man Quay is cited as worth 1.75 billion dollars, possibly the richest. John D. Rockefeller is listed with about 150 million and yearly income near five million, while Viscount Belgrave could inherit vast wealth. The Shah of Persia and the Czar are noted among the wealthiest monarchs, with annual incomes of two to three million pounds.
A London railway director, famed for his vigilance, visits a station at five in the morning and praises industrious prep while porters joke about an incoming intruder. He quietly departs without reacting to their quips, underscoring his sharp sense of duty and timing.
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