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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1894
Page
2
A Cincinnati Enquirer poem evokes a cold, bleak house with bare rooms and fading memories. The speaker recalls mothers flowers, haunted windows, and children’s laughter, all fading as time and poverty press in. The night casts a mesmeric light on faces once bright, while a gaunt wolf hides within the walls.
Bremner seeks to rid himself of a clingy friend Snaggs who talks of his seven year old boy. Sommers suggests pairing Snaggs with Gregsby’s daughter to spark a match. The plan backfires as both men threaten to sever ties after scenes at Sommers’ and Bremner’s homes.
Editor calls out imaginative writers for unscientific moon lore. He cites a Thames scene where a “young moon” is described rising over the river, noting the young moon sets early and cannot be seen in rising. The piece mocks outdated ideas and adds quips on learning new ways.
The piece surveys parental authority and corporal punishment, arguing punishment should educate through reason and virtue rather than fear. It stresses balance, prevention, and treating children as rational beings while warning against excessive harshness and harmful isolation. It contrasts harsh methods with constructive guidance.
A descriptive passage extols the Great Barrier Reef of Australia as a vast 1250 mile coral barrier along the northeast coast. It notes the reef’s accretion forming an alabaster wall, a calm inland sea of 80 000 square miles, and the diverse life and geological processes that create islands and tropical growth within.
Alfred C. Kendrick recalls a Texas judge who ran a grocery and saloon and dispensed law from behind a counter. He describes being fined 5 dollars for resisting arrest and 5 dollars for assault plus costs, totaling about 21 dollars, leaving him with a debt of about 3 dollars to the judge or his successor. The tale appears as a quotation from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A St Louis Globe Democrat quote recounts a farmer’s bull tale where kindness quiets a former feral beast after a thunderstorm. The Minneapolis Journal asserts English will dominate as a universal language, replacing other tongues by the twentieth century. An older meditation notes aging love’s softening effect can be dangerous.
Spare Moments portrays Russian soldiers as emaciated and poorly paid, with officers rich from plunder. He details forced short rations, watered bread, and meat substitutions, plus beatings and even fatal abuses, as punishment and coercion in the Russian regiments.
A Bow Bells account describes Patagonian child care rituals using yellow clay and a large skin bag. The healer applies clay, watches the child’s cries, then seals the bag with pebbles and serpents’ teeth to lure or expel devils. If the child survives, postcare includes washing and wrapping in a muleys bull hide.
Professor Rudolf Falk warned a Leipzig audience that between November 13 and 15, 1899 a catastrophic meteor shower could occur, possibly signaling Earth’s destruction through a collision with a newly discovered comet. He claimed a dramatic celestial spectacle would unfold between 2 and 4 a.m. during that period.
Frank Stockton owned the Morristown house once rumored haunted. A potential buyer backed out after a remark about the legend, while Stockton kept the house. Tree trimming revealed squirrels leaping from trees to the roof, their scampering mistaken for ghostly feet.
The article notes Cape May derives from Cannlius Jacobus Mey a Dutch West India Company navigator. It recalls a 1630 purchase of the Cape May region from Indigenous peoples and mentions the near-simultaneous Danish or Swedish activity nearby. The original deed is kept in Albany.
Reader asks what happened to the woman who called children crying "bellerins" in a local-era context, reflecting questions about social attitudes and naming terms used for kids' cries.
A Berwick upon Tweed candidate, after hiring a barrister for 40 guineas who switches sides, threatens the lawyer with pistols until the fee is returned. The advocate yields the money but the client still loses the case, deeming no honest pleader available.
A narrator recalls the thrill of gold prospecting, describing the lure of striking rich and counting nuggets at day’s end. He notes the mix of effort and disappointment, the hope for the next find, and how others’ tales keep the hunt alive despite months without pay.
The text recounts Charles Reade's novel In The Wandering Heir presenting Lord Altham of Ireland as sold into slavery in Philadelphia in 1728 and serving twelve years in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. It notes Irishmen recognizing him and Admiral Vernon returning him to Ireland, while noting a probable error placing the scene in Northern Delaware and ends with a quip about blame and silence.
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