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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1905
Page
12
Newport society recounts the Beaulieu mansion curse as deaths and misfortune follow owners from Barreda to Astor to Brice. The Spanish courtesan specter in a ballroom gown haunts Bellevue Avenue, with Thomas Walsh and Evelyn Walsh among the latest alleged victims.
Margaret Haley, secretary of the Chicago Teachers Federation, toured Norway and Denmark. In Christiania she witnessed the independence vote from Sweden with women participating in almost all polls, noted orderly crowds and patriotic displays, and heard emblems of Yes. The play Bjornson’s Josa lefer sparked a national chorus as Norway proclaimed independence by 64 260 ayes to 33 ayes.
Judah Leon Leschinsky, 23, heads the Michael Leon Leschinsky company and a Russian construction firm building 3000 miles of southern railways between Rostov and Baku. He arrived in New York from Europe aboard the Pennsylvania with plans to purchase American locomotives, cars, rails, and equipment for contracts with the Russian government. He lives in Brooklyn with a wife and four month old daughter and manages travel and buying while two partners remain in Russia. The youngster is noted as the youngest Russian head of an incorporated construction company and speaks fluent English in New York without an accent.
From the St. Louis Republic the piece notes Indian school teachers may head to Sequoyah via Muskogee and Grand River to examine a proposed one million dollar power dam. The report claims the booming country will yield many dams and sites but finds no Slenxet Indian present.
Eleanor Winthrop and her husband Jack juggle finances and a meddling Aunt Julia who arrives to save their kitchen. A spectral seance plan and cheese mishap propel a comic spiral ending in a ruse to keep Aunt Julia content and their marriage intact.
Louis Firman of Chicago recalls a New York dining spot that serves regular meals with no fixed price. Men and women decide value by tip and menu note, the restaurant’s success rests on high service and fair value, drawing a well off crowd and steady patronage.
Joseph A. Altsheler criticizes British press for biases and sensationalism while praising American reporting on great affairs. He cites Portsmouth correspondence as an example of superior impartiality and warns British coverage reflects hopes and prejudices.
A railway tale on Conductor Geraghty and his prize winning collies. Dogs boarded with farmers and railway workers learn routes and schedules, fetch mail bags, and show day and week recognition. They dislike certain homes and relocate when misliked, proving very memory driven and train aware.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt describes the winkle trade on the British east coast foreshore. Winklers gather clams called winkles on mud flats, earning up to $10 weekly for three hours work, facing dangers like quicksand the “green death.” Some foreshore holdings yield large yearly incomes, with some owners earning $25,000 annually.
The late Bill Nye answered a correspondent on his work and life habits. He described exercise with dumbbells Indian clubs and club membership for health. He writes mostly in a seated posture or autograph album and recuperates after deep thought. He admits dressing expensively yet unobtrusively with morning evening and night attire.
Fragmentary dialogue portrays a charitable exchange between a woman and a man about securing steady work and daily meals. The imperfect text hints at social themes of employment and dignity but offers limited readable detail.
In a fragmented exchange a father questions the need to give daughters many things while a mother defends generosity. The speakers debate limits and propriety, with tensions over values and affection surfacing in a domestic quarrel.
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