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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1886
Page
3
A serialized look at notable stars across the ocean with humor and backstage details. Mme Valtris and Mme Vestris feature in 1830 theater ventures. Planche’s witty fairy burlesques shine, with Bernhardt's cigarette tale added in club-house style anecdotes.
A historical note surveys French attitudes toward actors and actresses, noting social origins of performers, family disapproval, and the need for skilled actress maids. It recounts examples from the Comedie Francaise and Grand Opera, and includes anecdotes about stage salaries and managerial tactics.
A collection recounts Civil War memories featuring a child with a musket carried to Hancock on Gettysburg’s last day, and a boy Jimmy Howard who overcomes cowardice by praying. It describes hospital scenes where children endure pain with quiet courage and the healing power of prayer, kindness, and faith in a hospital ward.
An 18th century Washington headquarters at Newburgh on the Hudson is preserved as a museum with La Fayette recalling the room as it appeared, followed by a humorous critique of a newspaper editor's money education scheme. The excerpt includes Prof King’s perilous Maine to St Lawrence balloon voyage and notes Berlin’s rising status and pineapple acid.
In a Puck essay quoted here, the author jokes about fishing misadventures and dog mishaps while riffing on Izaak Walton and angling lore. The piece moves to literary praise of hills and poets, citing Saxton Higginson and Ethan Allen, ending with a farmer’s pun on crows.
A collection of observations shows women owning banks, running stores, and filling roles as notaries, editors, and professionals across countries. The piece argues women’s health and power justify broader economic participation, urging society to remove limits and favor collaboration with men.
The Detroit Globe notes fashion flaws and memories of past silhouettes. It chronicles crinoline, bustle, Grecian bend, pullback, eel-skin dress, and high shoulders, praising natural neck and shoulder grace as key to beauty in women. It questions convenience versus style and cites a plant-theft anecdote from voluminous skirts.
A barkeeper accuses a man of not paying for a drink, who retorts about noble habits of giving more than one takes. He exits and doors crash with items as the bartender is praised for promptness and unanimity, then a quip about taste differences follows. The aphorism on slavery echoes ancient Greece and Rome.
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