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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1892
Page
10
The piece surveys arguments pro and con free trade, noting 1856 to 1860 prosperity under protection, and quotes figures on wages and prices. It cites Edward Atkinson and the Boston Herald on wage growth and living standards, while reporting a local dispute over a World’s Fair appropriation.
A passenger recalls a near wreck on the Alegazam line. After a night train ride, a sudden crash and a desperate warning to jump led passengers to flee as a pursuing locomotive loomed. A drummer’s panicked sprint through a broken sleeper window capped the tale.
The tulip craze spurred wild financial schemes as boards of trade issued bulbs as investments. Prices soared with Semper Augustus bulbs selling for 2000 florins and buyers paying 4600 florins for larger specimens after initial purchases. The frenzy, likened to the South Sea Bubble, lasted three years and drew Dutch speculation to a peak.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a wedding scene with a talkative guest who extols ever fresh love. A crusty bachelor mutters that green love is undesirable and unreliable, leaving the crowd amused by his blunt verdict.
A brief quotation from the Indianapolis Journal describes a suitor believing Ethel should wait to marry until she is of discretion and then jokes that she will marry someone else.
A spectator accompanying a sick friend opened a front hall door to a cellar whose stairs were removed. He fell and died, prompting shock at the exposed danger and condemnation of the unbarred door.
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