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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1886
Page
6
The speaker imagines life as a railroad brakeman or conductor earning eleven dollars a week. He vows to rattle trunks, tear vowels from baggage, and ignore civility to keep bread and ment while passengers accuse him of theft. A vivid beneath-the-railroad-worker fantasy from the Pilleburgh Sunday Globes.
A man described as a roving elocutionist from Vermont recounts his failed stage career and travels from Omaha to San Francisco, detailing poverty, lack of socks, shrinking weight, and a dream to recapture glory. He rails at elocution, laments pay, and reflects on a life of pursuit and unsteady fortune.
An illustrated page salutes the women of Luma with remarks on manners dress and amusements. It features verse on stolen kisses and a humorous dialog about shoes and Al clipper ships ending with a playful engagement joke.
A column mixes social gossip about lace and fireplaces with a hawk eyed portrait of Lima women and Peruvian life. It surveys an unusual silk handkerchief hair monogram scheme and notes on Peruvian attire bull-baiting and rabonas along with a sea-bathing primer.
Ottawa lumbermen construct a circular brick and iron furnace, 140 feet tall and 36 to 40 feet in diameter, to burn sawdust as the refuse clogged the river.
A Fourth of July rural festival featured a greased pig chase. The city slicker finally grabbed the pig under a cornbin, ending a chaotic scramble through creek, fence, and stump as spectators cheered and a cracked brass cannon roared.
A collage of quirky snippets and dialogues from the era, including jokes about eggs at the equator, a lover seeking revenge, a banker’s son interrupting a professor, and a street scene with two men crossing to avoid a busted business friend. Estelline Bell credits.
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