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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1899
Page
2
Elizabeth Jane, daughter of the mayor, navigates social peril at Henchard’s town. Farfrae launches his own commerce while Trenchard resents the rival. Elizabeth’s anxieties grow as letters, secrets, and a planned marriage stir in a web of family ties, mistaken meetings, and a tragic ending with Mrs Henchard’s death.
In a candlelit confrontation three weeks after Mrs Henchard’s funeral Henchard admits to Elizabeth Jane that he is her father and pleads for acceptance. He recounts his past with her mother and promises kindness, hoping she will look on him with paternal regard despite her fear and shock.
Henchard presses Elizabeth to take his surname and plans to announce it in the newspaper. Elizabeth, shaken, agrees only to the notion of tradition as her thoughts drift to the late Susan and the sailor Richard Newson. The husband keeps letters and a wedding day letter within reach, hinting at future revelations.
Robert Ashcroft MP addresses constituents in Oldham about fundraising letters and requests for subscriptions. He recounts a former MP’s large past appeal and explains he cannot afford to send more than his means allow, urging wealthier locals to contribute more instead.
A Notes and Queries anecdote recalls Sam Weller’s quip about crumpets and cites Garrick’s death in Boswell’s Johnson. Johnson and Beauclerk recount Hackman condemned for murder, who supposedly resolved to shoot himself and then ate three buttered muffins before firing. Dickens possibly drew on this tale.
In Oxbridge lore Dodgson later Lewis Carroll explained the Christ Church belfry nickname meat safe by splitting bell into belle and frei. He defined belle as beautiful and meet as meat then frei as free and secure, yielding meat safe as the playful etymology.
A brief exchange shows Mrs Torkins urging thrift and her husband reluctantly agreeing to a check for cheap purchases. The Washington Star notes that once suspicion targets a man it is hard to divert.
A poem from Leslie's Weekly speaks of floral offerings on a grave at sea and the cenotaph of sailors and soldiers. It depicts the seabed as a resting place for bones of mariners and soldiers, with a guardian figure who keeps watch until the day they are returned to the Father.
A veteran actor recalls a backstage tale from a New Orleans stock company in 1860. A jealous rival plots murder with a loaded pistol. the narrator foils the plan by removing the bullet, saving the handsome leading man. The villain dies in a fall during the duel scene, and the narrator later receives a diamond ring from the grateful bridegroom.
A curious note traces muscled counts with a claim of three times as many muscles in a cat tail as in human hands and wrists. The piece then wanders through quirky facts about dogs in London wearing chamois shoes, washing by boat in Japan, bee language debate, and long telegram distances.
A Clydesdale exhibited in New York is described as the heaviest horse in the world at 3,000 pounds. It stands about 20 hands high and, at five years old, shows measurements including 95 inches girth and 11 feet 4 inches length. Comparisons mention a British dray horse at 18 hands and near 18 cwt, and a Wombwell’s horse at 17 hands 38 inches. The Thames Bank Distillery’s pair stood 18 hands high, near a ton weight. An authority notes average horse weight from 660 to 1,540 pounds. Death brings to some people the only real knowledge of life they ever had.
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