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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1899
Page
12
A juvenile column features light verse about little Dickie Swope and Henry Tincher pursuing future trades. Bud Mitchell dreams of a stylish carriage, and Dick plans a sailor suit from Hame with peers sharing playful plans to travel together, spreading cheerful, whimsical imagery.
A light column blends playful verse and fiction with a classroom scene where Miss Muffet meets a captured spider. Tom confesses affection for Nell, aunt Hope guides a reform that stirs romance, and Lewis Carroll style brainteasers mix with Chinese archers in Tung-Chou.
A newspaper fragment recounts small city incidents and child quips. A lad was taken to hospital after an arrow graze near the eye while traveling the highway. Four year old Gertrude negotiates cake frosting and bed clothing in a playful bargain. A two year old Helen rejects pie, craving the holes. Other witticisms reveal baby humor about teeth and childhood.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat profile describes a blind man who navigates the city daily from a restaurant near Canal Street, relying on his nose and feet to sense street smells and textures. He travels sixteen to twenty blocks, reading surroundings by odor, with feet as primary guides and careful stepping. He lives quietly with a granddaughter, supported by a small income, and has a reader for daily tasks.
An elderly Shropshire visitor touring a South Yorkshire bottleworks witnessed the blowing of molten glass into molds. She exclaimed upon seeing the process that she had never imagined gas was injected in that manner, noting the workers’ skill and the surprising method of aerated water production.
The text argues the right hand gained prominence starting from fighting origins protecting the heart with the left arm. It links weapon use to social supremacy, then notes Klondike gold field area estimates of 1000 to 1300 square miles and contrasts public speaking versus dancing careers as life’s chief aim.
A collage of anecdotes features a peasant witness before Chief Baron O Grady, Rex Cumberland and Sheridan squabbles, Henry Guy Carleton, Dr Edward Bedloe and a Whiting oil works superintendent, then John Van Buren and a humorous hay incident, Louisianan scenes, Puck style economy puzzles, a Deplorable Blunder marriage remark, ending with a Detroit Free Press joke about a forgotten invitation to the Bullions.
Portrait of Kansas prairies as seen by M Bourgmont during a 1720s journey. Describes eight leagues of travel on Oct 12, crossing eight brooks, vast prairies laden with deer and buffalo, distant bluffs revealing ancient landscapes, and abundant game for hunters in a peaceful, pre civilizational era.
A Washington Post piece notes Kate Field's old childhood note to herself glimpsed by Miss Field, a personal relic amid nostalgia. It also surveys European tattooing trends with Greek and Parisian examples, contrasting fashionable ink with warning that such adornments may be seen as foolish or savage by some Americans.
A collage of light humor and quips from newspapers, with jokes about politicians ignorance and press honesty, hotel water, kissing bugs, cooks, and social foibles. The items include playful exchanges about absent mindedness, feudal district humor, and a Kentucky mountaineer’s Sunday ban. Includes anecdotes about a cook solution and a jealous wedding cravat misread at church.
A collage of quips about mistakes in business and judgment, burnished with humor on social pretensions. Exchanges include a trader’s blunder contrasted with an employee error, a name quiz sparked by names, and a Boston riot joke. The piece weaves light anecdotes about manners, manners, and mild mischief in everyday life.
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