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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1906
Page
4
A first person tale follows a bold financier who trains himself in social capital and urban manner to woo a wife, while plotting a high stakes stock campaign. He enlists a European trainer Monson to master form, dress, and poise as he targets Textile stock and navigates Langdon in a volatile market.
The narrator recalls a Polish nobleman Count Potocki who gambled away wealth and abused his wife the Countess. After a violent confrontation at a social gathering the narrator helps the wife escape to safety with funds, then departs with the intent to duel Potocki. The Countess later enters a convent in Warsaw and dies. the narrator killed Potocki in a duel two days after her departure.
An official in the land office at Washington recounts how Dr. Whipple long bishop of Minnesota once held religious services near an Indian village. His belongings lay in a lodge and he asked the chief if they were safe to leave while he went to the village. The chief answered it would be plenty safe since no white man was within a hundred miles.
Dialog excerpt discusses secret marriages and the inevitability of exposure once divorce is sought. One speaker argues concealment is impossible, while the other doubts that claim.
A brief exchange quotes Hoggs replying to Boggs with a playful line about life not treating him often enough in a lighthearted Princeton University vignette.
Harper's September prints the first letters from the Frenchwoman Mme de Brillon to Benjamin Franklin. The excerpt shows a playful view of paradise with shared domestic joys and hopes, imagining a world without envy, gout, or nerves, where love and friendship endure.
An intimate friend recalls Senator Graball's breach of senatorial courtesy. Senator Grafton accuses Graball of offering to work for twenty five percent less legal expenses than he does, targeting the interests he represents.
Louis Wagner called the New York special victory the best race he ever drove. He cited crowds as a distraction on corners and slowed times, while noting his fastest laps on the North Hempstead route where crowds were sparse. He described tire punctures, quick changes, and the car's 96 inch wheelbase, 100 horsepower four cylinder Durmaeq engine, rear shaft drive, and wire spoke wheels.
The Omaha editor Edward Rosewater disparages im pressions and portraits that lack likeness. A painter explains art as effect in gray tones. Rosewater cites a New York man who spent 4000 on a portrait, only for a cook to reveal the level of its truth.
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