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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1887
Page
6
A dramatic soliloquy by Sparcendi reflects the fame and disdain tied to a disallowed claim. The speaker contends fame fades, recalls congress, and compares pen power to sword, and hints at resignation to a fate in Sheol. The reminiscence centers on the refrain your claim is disallowed and its haunting legacy.
Grand Forks citizens praise Sparks land policy in name while evidence shows his actual actions diverged. The editor argues his aggressive stance against land sharks failed by suspending patents and laws, harming settlers and provoking east west hostility, leaving sympathy for the avowed policy rather than the administration.
Fargo reports a call for a December 15 1587 Aberdeen convention to plan Dakota admission as one state. Editors mock secrecy and criticize supporters and politicians. Yankton Telegram notes Aberdeen efforts may delay federal action while Congress reconsiders Dakota division.
A New York City bookseller chronicled a visit to a legendary book worm in a musty old den on One Hundred and Thirty-second Street near Eighth Avenue. The elderly collector boasted a 400-year-old Latin Bible, a 1530 Zwingli discourse, and a love letter from 1824, while the clerk noted 150 New York book worms and regular customers.
An 1867 69 Vogel measure comparison suggests the cluster 4411 G C contains an eleventh magnitude star that has shifted its position by about 2.8 seconds of arc relative to neighboring stars, illustrating photography’s value in detecting stellar motion. The Arkansas Traveler notes a quatrain about the politician and the fisherman reflecting diligence and leisure.
The Lime Kiln Club scene shows Moses Jumbo asked to stay, warned about leaving for Iliney, and urged to remember freedom, civility, and deceit in everyday life as members reflect and resume the usual meeting program. Separate humorous snippets recount Gen. Sam Houston’s prosecutorial stance and a gag about Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
In a terse Chicago scene a traveling man from Omaha asks a hotel clerk how to locate families employed by Chicago households earning around 40 000 a year. The clerk points him to the Highfly Caterer’s emporium and he reveals he’s an agent for a dyspepsia medicine.
A Washington Critic quips a wife asks Willie to skip a tennis tournament for her sake. He considers entering but fears victory would bring newspaper publicity. The light exchange highlights social modesty and media attention.
The Epoch reports a board of trade meeting last night where members perfected arrangements for the upcoming annual dinner. Citizens and members conveyed progress on event planning and guest coordination.
A man tells a New York Sun reader he must go to Montreal that night and needs a suit. The clerk suggests a cutaway coat, a likely joke on fashion and travel plans.
A Chicago Herald excerpt notes Vanity Fair’s Japan edition with native artist illustrations. It describes Christian with a close shaved Mongolian head and portrays the dungeon of Giant Despair as a large wooden cage. The angels are depicted in Yokohama fashion waiting beyond a bridgeless river.
A Chicago Times report notes that electric public lighting in Washington attracts insects, drawing spiders to webs that obscure architectural outlines. The phenomenon is described as increasing nuisance and altering the city’s nighttime skyline.
A collage of witty fragments and social musings from the Brooklyn Eagle, discussing everyday scenes and gender roles. Jests about doctors and earaches, nuns in Rome, a rocker’s comforts, and the quirks of men and women fill this parade of humorous vignettes.
A collage of snippets features a comic exchange about sermons on Joseph and corn, a child asking about do re us, a curled kid fearing a haircut, a note on sparrow hawk dangers to sparrows, and a report of petrified trees found along the Rideau Canal in Canada.
The New York Mail and Express describes plush wraps imitating seal skins, sleigh hoods, and a Thistle bonnet. It notes long astrakan wraps for carriages, lace jerseys for evening wear, Turkish fez inspired headwear on Flora McFlimsey, oversized muffs, yellow fur boas, ash receivers as dog carts in Holland, and high backed dining chairs. It also mentions cut glass chandeliers, a Roman lamp in country houses, and kettle drums in Mrs. Parvenu’s drawing room. London round hats for girls are cited as correct fashion.
Readers learn of a surge in winter resort development from California to Florida. Dozens of new hotels will open, with Cape May and St. Augustine counting palatial additions, and Nassau awaiting management changes at Royal Victoria. The Florida season starts after Christmas, though some reopen before, while prohibition worries temper hotel plans and northern investors acquire properties.
Reports from multiple locales describe extraordinary exploits and oddities. Ira Hughes and sons of Elmer New Jersey killed twenty seven gray squirrels in one afternoon. A Castile New York woman found a bird egg in the center of a cabbage head. A 25 person Idaho hunting party killed deer wolves a caribou and a wildcat and caught over four hundred trout. A Sonoma California peach tree bore 250 pounds of peaches this season with fruit over eight inches in circumference. Mrs James Ferguson of Chester County Pennsylvania watched a frog seize a chick from a pond and drain the pond to save remaining fowl. In Flint Michigan egg prices rise as a resident plants a stuffed fowl with dynamite. A California man found turtle eggs hatched after removing the eggs from the body. An elephant from a traveling circus raided a Rugby England cottage and dined on jam onions damsons meat bread butter and sweets before relief. Police in Mexico City report several counterfeiters captured. The page includes humorous quips about theatre exits and a note on zymotic diseases spreading from books in libraries.
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