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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1898
Page
9
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a fair, wear, and various names with uncertain details. It reads like crowds and events notes with scattered phrases about people and times, but the text is largely incomprehensible and many names and specifics are unreadable.
Percy King fights a forgery claim over his crime tale Cuthbert's Crime. Lord Bill and a vigilant solicitor uncover a mysterious impersonator using the author’s name and a silver ring, tracing clues through Tudor Chambers, a stationer, and the streets near St Chad's Place. The drama shifts toward a late evening confrontation as they corner the impostor who assumed Mr King's identity.
The passage surveys ideas from astronomy and physics, noting light travel to fixed stars, an iron ship’s cargo advantage over wood, and how early New York Central engineers avoided reversing engines to stop trains. It mentions the impracticality of sanding tracks and a caution about braking power when reversing locomotives.
The piece extols Chinese economic frugality noting waste is avoided and scrap material is repurposed. It describes daily life, food manners with chopsticks, bowls of rice, and a social emphasis on not losing even the smallest grain, including a coolie's endurance.
The article warns that ordinary foods and drinks can harm health when overused. It cites cases where excessive smoking impairs eyesight, tea drinking hurts hearing, snuff causes paralysis, eggs provoke nervous excitation, excessive beef may dull a weak mind, and strong coffee is linked to reduced mental vigor.
The Rhind manuscript in the British Museum is the oldest deciphered mathematical work. The Chinese cultivate an odorless onion. Money is the root of the manufacturing plant.
The piece recounts Civil War memories of officers and sergeants, notably Lieutenant Hill and Sergeant Binder, with a dramatic night disturbance at a camp amusement hall. It follows Hill’s rise, Binder’s leadership, and a regimental reunion while detailing fellow veterans, receptions, and a tale of a flag capture after Corinth.
The text warns of widespread adulteration in foods and sauces in England and America. It describes copper color in bottled fruits, green bottles, Armenian bile coloring, and disguising pastes and sauces. Jams mix inferior fruits, marmalade includes pulp or pits, mustard and pepper adulteration, and general fraud in the drug trade parallels.
A compact survey of war cries and battle songs across eras and nations. From Bourbon shouts to the Chan son de Roland, martial tunes spurred knights and soldiers, while rulers used music to mold troops. The Cid and Roland echo Spain and France, Caesar’s legions sang triumphs, and German military music thrives with ten thousand musicians.
In the Senate Senator Ve of Missouri recited Milton’s poem in a tragic tone. West commented with reverent understatement that John Milton authored the poem and Beethoven set it to music. Senator Proctor then urged West to sing it, causing a religious hush across the chamber.
The wife of a renowned Paris dressmaker preserves a valuable ledger of today’s feminine dress. Each page holds fabric swatches, linings, lace, and trimmings from gowns made for clients. It includes pieces associated with the Queen of Italy, Czarina, Empress Eugenie, Queen Regent of Spain, Sarah Bernhardt, Cimon Sylvia, Otero, and the Queen of Hawaii.
Rev M M Parkhurst states that couples must pay a marriage fee of £6 to the priest in the Philippines, otherwise he will not marry them. Since natives earn rarely more than $5 a month, many enter common law marriages due to inability to pay the fee.
A stark assertion argues punishment is the sole effective method to control a man’s behavior. The line emphasizes deterrence through penalty as a guiding manual for discipline.
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