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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1901
Page
12
A damaged OCR passage mentions citizens and a family with visitors and ropes, but parts are garbled making the event, location, and actions unclear. No identifiable names, places, or dates are readable to establish a concrete news item.
Fragmented text references various figures such as Gen and Harri, names like Louis, Foster Wallace, J. Scott, Mr and Mrs, and events including a secret, convening, and a meeting in a street setting. Overall reads as garbled notes from a political or historical scene with multiple persons and places vaguely indicated.
The U S government needs more help to run land offices nationwide. Positions open to men and women except five male-only posts. Examinations for stenographers and typewriters at Huron on April 5 and clerks at Sioux Falls on April 23. Pay $900 annually. Applications should be filed with the U S Civil Service Commission, Washington, D C.
The massive black stone figure known as the Black Venus stands deep in a Morbihan forest. Bretons worship it for weather and harvest power, claiming it ages from before Greek and Roman times. Twice cast into the sea, it was returned and an altar erected. Count Pierre de Lannion later moved it to his chateau courtyard with an inscription.
A Scribner's Magazine excerpt describes a young lark learning to hop and fly with maternal coaching, a sun after rain moment inspiring song, and a childlike awakening. It contrasts the memory theme with mnemonics, noting practice makes memory stronger and that forgetting often means the mental photographic negative cannot be found.
An excerpt from an author’s diary notes a five oclock wakeup, a sonnet and cold water breakfast, and an early retirements with no supper to avoid neighborly annoyance. The piece sits beside interjections about freckles and a Boston Transcript reference on silkworms’ eyes.
A reflective piece on faces and time, contrasting present beauty with shadows of past and future. It notes the faces closest to us as true and tender, while pondering how the inner soul shines when outer adornment fades. The poem ends with the idea that love reveals the soul as roses fade.
A Detroit Free Press tale recounts a farmer's scheme to marry Hanner by misrepresenting a match with Si Duke to trick mortgage holder Simmons. The plan promised relief on a south forty mortgage, yielding the narrator about 1500 dollars and ending in his marriage to Hanner over a dispute with Simmons.
A historic eight foot mahogany clock stands in the senate lobby near the main entrance to the senate chamber. Made by Thomas Voight of Philadelphia, its face links to a time when 17 states formed the Union and debates by Webster and Clay echoed.
The piece notes that the United States has a single sword factory in Massachusetts with excess capacity. It argues the saber is obsolete in modern warfare due to rifles, comparing it to a bandmaster’s baton. It also mentions a witty exchange on genius and rent expiry, and describes a south Pacific island drum carved to resemble a vase with a sharklike head, covered in skins, framed as an obstacle rather than a help.
A vivid 1850 tale recounts John C. Fremont riding through a storm from San Jose to Monterey to tell his wife of his election as California senator. He left again before dawn for a 140 mile return ride, proving his fervent devotion amid a long night of rain and anticipation.
The red flag traces labor and revolution over 3,000 years from ancient colors of elites to workers banners. In antiquity red signified shared humanity, later becoming a symbol of revolt during Italy and Greece slave uprisings, Spartacus era, and the stirring image of flag-bearing workers in battle.
King Edward VII, then the Prince of Wales, read a sporting paper in a country house billiard room. A clergyman asked if he cared for that paper, noting a friend who had lost hundreds betting on horse racing. The prince replied, He must have been a very bad judge of horseflesh.
A circle of professors and clergy cross a university campus where a witty rector jokes that his new canon title will be a bigger bore. The piece ties a quip on friendship and enmity to a broader proverb about misused praise and guarded loyalty.
The first century of Lyons silk weaving included exemptions from military service and taxation as key incentives. By 1650 the weavers numbered 18,000, or 60,000 with affiliated pursuits, reflecting rapid industry growth.
A humorous exchange about seeing names in print references a Gloucester fish skinning world record and a Wall Street lamb skinning record, as cited by the San Francisco Bulletin and the directory exchange.
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