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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1886
Page
11
A damaged OCR passage from St James Gazetic presents a fragmented dramatic exchange. It includes dialog about a girl, wealth, deception, and social observation, with stray phrases about marriage, pride, and fortune. The text is garbled, unclear, and reads like overheard lines from a play or serialized fiction.
Grace Chaloner, a city beauty, rejects farmer Horace Woodworth for city life. Years later a railroad accident exposes their enduring bond, leading to a reunion where Grace admits love and vows happiness with Horace despite their different worlds.
A collage of items from early 20th century papermaking notes includes a comic on Mrs Poppleton and a Washington socialite, a beeswax processing method, a multilingual love line gag, a Dublin croquet misadventure with a tragic twist, a Ferryman’s vanity remark, and Cuantitty lace dress fashions.
A collage of verse and prose features a passionate love poem by Owen Meredith, humorous quotes about scapple and weddings, and a brief note on Pennsylvania marriage license revenue. The mix reflects social scraps and literary tastes in Philadelphian journalism.
Olive Logans view on a 65 year old bride and a 33 year old groom is discussed alongside opinion on a 80 year old man marrying a younger woman. The San Francisco letter criticizes era speech and social attitudes in 1885. It references Baroness Burdett Coutts and Sir Julius Benedict and mentions female employment ending after marriage.
A compilation of English newspaper clips shows wives and sometimes children sold at market crosses for small sums in the early 1800s. Cases include Chapel en le Frith 11 shillings with furniture, Hereford 1 pound 4s plus punch, Hull 20 guineas and a halter, and Knaresborough 6d and tobacco amid jealousy.
A loosely connected piece critiques the Maine liquor law and depicts a journalist paid to draft a brief anti law argument. It includes reflections on gender roles, wages, and a satirical take on Adam and Eve, ending with a call for women’s rights and a claim that women are worth more than men. The column cites Little Rock Life as a source.
In Poplar Science Monthly Virchow discusses colonization various regions and the assimilation of diverse populations into Aryan stock. He notes English settlement in Australia and Dutch presence in South Africa with mixed outcomes and highlights the study of the Yankee race. An anecdote follows about eating ants for pickles in a lumber camp, detailing ant nests found in old logs and the quantity gathered.
A collage of humor notes from various papers recounts Mark Twain humor, odd proverbs, and a long poem about a Waterbury watch. It includes quips on cells, ships, and rural life with dated newspaper voice and regional satire.
An editor seeks a reporter who can tell plausible lies and finds a candidate who has not written for a newspaper but has written war articles for magazines. The editor declares the man is suitable, revealing a sly satire on journalism.
The account explains how long men can work at various temperatures depending on exposure length, exertion, health, and humidity. It notes rail workers at 10 to 125, tropical steamers at 156, and Dubois estimates 122 in dry air but 104 likely fatal in moist air. It adds a belief that even in pure air, sustained work above 145 to 165 is unsafe.
The Sandersville Ga News reports a tree on J. C. Duggan’s plantation that grows in a strange shape. It measures about twenty inches in diameter, rises at a sixty degree angle for twelve feet, runs horizontally for twenty feet, rises again at the same angle for five to six feet, then extends horizontally to the top. The tree reaches about seventy feet in length and allows a child to touch the upper boughs while the trunk supports a forty foot climb. The article notes a person can walk along the trunk for forty feet and jump to the ground without trouble. In a separate note a gourmet claims broiling beefsteak over red hot coals with a forty four count yields ideal results, turning the spit four times.
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