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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1892
Page
3
A whimsical poem where classroom books complain of neglect and mistreatment until morning reveals their place in shelves. The diction evokes schoolroom life and the tension between curiosity and order, ending with the children returning the books to their quiet nooks.
In Roaring Run miners gather to fund a school with Rube Rollins leading the push. A schoolmaster proves a woman, bringing progress and romance as Ed Hardy and Hank Foster’s circle support her, and a preacher later joins to wed Rollins to the teacher.
A vivid description of floating river junk and ornate mandarin boats. The crafts range from rough planks to varnished river-junk builds with raised decks, sails of matting and gold dragon ornamentation. Decks bustle with pennants and painted walls while oars dip low and steam wash swirls the water.
The annual report of Henry C. Adams to the Interstate Commerce Commission lists 29,928 locomotives in the United States with 1,38 passenger and 16,140 freight. It notes 744 cars per 100 miles of line, and 4,721,627 freight tons and 1,413,142 passenger miles per engine. Eastern railways show higher equipment density, while western lines fall below. Automatic coupler fittings include 955 locomotives and 114,364 cars.
The Beaver, the Hudson Bay Company's first Pacific steamer, is proposed as a World’s Fair relic in British Columbia. Its wreck lies with the bow on shore and stern in about twelve feet of water at the entrance.
A 1833 grounded vessel at Vancouver harbor with engines and boilers intact may be raised and transported. The wreck, including the mainnyist smokestack and wheel house, could be exhibited alongside models of modern Atlantic grayhounds like the Majestic and the City of Paris.
Dr Wilson, a former navy officer who served with Admiral Farragut, lives in Washington for winter. After wartime consumption, doctors told him he could not live long in the U.S. He cured himself with outdoor treatment, roaming from Cape of Good Hope through southern Africa, then settling on Johan nn a, Camero group. He owns half the island, runs a sugar plantation, and praises the climate and hunting in Transvaal.
A Danish royal tale unfolds as Princess Marie and her sister, traveling incognito with small handbaskets, are blocked from a Helsingor station by a watchman who misreads them as common passengers. The princesses slip through the gate when the guard admits they expect Marie. The stationmaster ends the day believing the royals took another route.
Statistics from the Canadian Gazette based on Board of Trade returns show Canada’s exports to England rose by about 363000 dollars in the last year. Food items improved, wheat shipments exceeded 1890 values by 3420000 dollars, butter exports tripled, and cheese and fish fared better. Lumbering suffered with sawn wood and hewn wood down from 1890 levels, while livestock declined overall. The harvest prevented a major drop in export trade, with gains and losses balancing overall.
The English Woman's Journals feature an exchange column where women swap items such as a silver fox muff and Medici collar for a Persian lamb collar, a Persian kitten for £1 value, or Dresden china for useful goods. Magazines, reviews, books, and even pets are traded in this era’s lively barter market.
Richard Redgrave records an Irish examiner praising Margaret for her ladylike, albeit flawed, exam answers and suggesting she receive the medal. A contemporary notes that some fine poems are sometimes a foot short, with remarks on poems sent in a foot long.
Frederick Deitz of Cobden Erie County Pa recalls being among the Union riders who surrounded Booth at the barn near Bowling Green Virginia on April 25 1865 after Lincoln’s assassination He describes the march from Washington to the farm the confrontation the fire and Booth’s death with details on Dr Mudd Herold and the return to the navy yard in Washington The interview notes the 100000 reward offer and the notoriety of the event for the soldiers involved.
A veteran recalls how the government divided pay by rank with Lieut Doherty receiving 10000 and Boston Corbett 4000. his share of 31683.70 funded land purchases and family life. He notes the rest of his squad scattered or dead, with one survivor in Chicago.
A humorous passage reflects on a lively young boy who disrupts tea, church, and classroom scenes. It offers brief vignettes of his blunt questions and misread phrases, including jokes about coins and home life, ending with a lesson in letter writing and a deceased husband proverb.
A St. Louis Republic claim that the Isthmus of Panama is the world’s most deadly territory for workers tied to the canal project. It recounts mass deaths at Monkey Hill and Matochin where thousands of Chinese laborers perished, many drowning to avoid smallpox and terror.
An inventor faces swindlers offering to form a million dollar syndicate for a share of the venture. They urge signing over rights, form a friendly corporation, and sell stock to the public while the inventor holds worthless stock. The con ends with the broker cashing out, leaving the inventor with the loss and the swindlers with the gains.
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