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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1894
Page
2
A short poem notes how flowers symbolize women across eras from the modest violet to the modern, briskly dressed girl. It contrasts traditional femininity with contemporary boldness, praising changing ideals while critiquing society’s uses of floral metaphors.
A foundling named Paul grows to success with help from his foster mother and brother Edward. Jealous Edward schemes to cheat him of £10,000 from a bank safe. Paul accuses nothing, sacrifices his life to protect his foster mother’s honor, leaping from a window to escape blame and dying a hero.
Henry Hawley recalls neighbor E D Weary and his four year old son Bobby who, after hearing another child brag about a burglar in their home, begs his mother for a burglar too. Mrs Weary rejects the idea, fearing danger and urging moral restraint. The tale ends with Bobby acknowledging they cannot have a burglar in their house.
A reminiscence by Rev. R. S&S Hawker recounts a wedding tale in which a clergyman snuffs and sniffs after kissing the bride, triggering sneezes from the bride, groom, and bridesmaids. The procession ends with a chorus of sneezes and a tower bell.
A former slave owner recounts using beagles rather than bloodhounds to recapture a runaway enslaved man named Marston. The chase spanned miles through swamps and barns, ending with Marston asleep by a fire and recognizing his master. Marston later prospered, becoming a farmer and state senator who helped tax hounds.
Chumber's Journal describes the varied effects of tsetse fly bites on wildlife and livestock. Calves and cows show milder reactions, while dogs, horses, and oxen suffer severe illness, with delayed symptoms and often death. Carcasses exhibit air-filled tissue, oily fat, and widespread organ decay, contrasting with unaffected animals like buffalo goats and antelopes. No certain remedy is known for the puncture.
A clipped, fragmentary report hints at an American girl figure called Skiloba, tied to a winter spell of Scandittuvia. The text trails into incomplete phrases, suggesting a speculative or poetic note rather than a clear event. The tone resembles a speculative cultural cipher rather than a factual report.
In scudding over the snow and oa after being shod with the skee a long wooden spowshoe Austrian ladies of fashion are devoted to the new sport and it will get to New York sooner or later.
A woman with very fluffy yellow hair and a man who resembled an actor entered Central Station. In the crowded waiting room she ignored leers until a young man mocked her hair. She confronted him, had him tug her hair, then slapped him, remarking that the hair is real.
A naturalist notes lifespans across species from butterflies and crows to swans and falcons. Birds like parrots and ravens may roam for a century, while the Palace of Schonbrunn keepered vulture lived 118 years in captivity. Quadrupeds vary from elephants at 400 years to camels at forty.
In a late 18th century push against French invasion fears the Duchess of Gordon and Lord Huntly gathered volunteers at fairs to form a Highland regiment. The Ninety second or Gordon Highlanders, led by Lord Huntly, wore clan tartan and recruited mainly from highlanders with thirty five exceptions.
The Wolff Brothers of Kreuznach patent a mute violin for learners. It is a mahogany frame open at top and bottom, built like a violin but completely mute. The instrument is not entirely silent, yielding a very soft tone suited to students, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A compact note lists pearls slack pins and golden pearls as more valuable than white and comments that soup things are called sweet though they cannot be tasted. The fragment hints at a linguistic or cultural sign study with emphasis on value and sensory paradoxes.
A San Francisco Chronicle dispatch describes Prince of Wales Island near Dixon Entrance as largely unmapped with a rugged landscape, abundant timber, and a diverse Indigenous population around 3,000 people. James Millar, a long-time resident from Hunt er's Bay, frames the island as a potential exploration frontier and notes the local Wydahs and Judah Indians, their origins, and living patterns.
London Chronicle notes Signor Biocca’s tests on animal saliva show cat saliva rich in bacteria and lethal to rabbits and guinea pigs within a day while dog saliva contains many bacteria and worm eggs. War horses harbor diverse bacteria including streptococci and spirilli of vile types. A St Anthony Hill child quips tasting corn bread as old carpets.
A reader from Wayne Pa. Times describes a giant lemon tree at Shadeland Garden in Upper Darby. Planted in the 1820s from a seed by the owner's mother on Tryon Lewis farm in Radnor, it has endured freezing and a 1876 Centennial showing with 180 ripe lemons. It survived Lauber's fire and remains healthy and fragrant, though housed to protect its temperature and beauty.
The secretary bird stalks snakes with a calm strike and wing defense, then stomps the reptile’s neck and head before swallowing it tail first. It feeds on snakes lizards tortoises and insects, and Cape authorities protect it for public benefit. The bird can be trained to guard poultry yards from snakes and other raptors.
Cleveland Leader reports local inventor N S Amstutz experiments with visual telegraphy using small mirrors and proper apparatus to transmit reflections of a face over telephone wires. He believes the method may someday enable drawing transmission, though he does not claim immediate success.
Reverend William J. Potter of New Bedford was the war’s only drafted clergyman. He was drawn July 23 and preached on The Voice of the Draft the following Sunday attracting Secretary Stanton. He received leave from his church and completed his term.
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