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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1891
Page
2
A Victorian era column explores women’s roles from divided skirts and housework to sisterly influence. It contrasts German domestic training with American views, profiles scholarship winners and writers, and notes a fruit canning boom driven by a record crop and high demand.
A collection of light anecdotes for kids and families. A boy tames a cub wolf then loses the pet to the forest. Grandma bakes pumpkin pies while a mischievous girl swaps spices, learning a harsh lesson about jokes. A charitable child raises funds for her sick mother.
A Somerset House clerk notes humor in registry names such as Foot Bath and Arthur Wellington Cox, with many odd front names and fates. A Cassell’s Magazine excerpt argues that small women prefer big men, challenging the common belief that big men seek little wives.
In a brief exchange, Binks says little effort is needed to run up a bill, Withers challenges, and Wimpleton notes a pale woman making a living from shoplifting, as cited by Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly.
Brices notes selling an old suit for $10. Briggs remarks, and Briggs explains the money went toward the first payment on his tailor’s bill at Clothier and Furnisher.
Bethlehem Pa hosts completion of the world’s largest steam hammer for forging armor plates. Weighing about 25 tons, it rises sixteen and a half feet and drops onto the work, with a 90 foot frame and a 1,890 ton anvil built from twenty two cast iron blocks with a steel face. Only comparable hammer exists in La Crensot France at 100 tons.
A humorous tale from a bygone era recalls an English audience surprised by fleas called sharps and a failed performance titled Napoleon and his Generals. The professor curator, seizing a captured flea, declares it a wild one as the royal party watches in bemused tension.
A Pekin printing shop preserves medieval methods with a wooden Chinese case filled with clay in which characters are pressed. A compositor transfers type to clay, forms a block, then a printer inks and presses sheets to reveal characters, adjusting misaligned pieces with pincers.
A fragment describes hands shaping type by conic cuts and clay supports. It notes characters placed into boxes, each kept in play by the surrounding clay. The material is described as hard and squat, from a New York Tribune reference.
The Rev. Pather Wall of 5 Pants cathedral denounces fortune tellers and wizards for luring married women and youths, calling it idolatry and a mortal sin against the first commandment. He warns his congregation to shun their nefari ous business and its moral dangers.
A granger warns off hunters then a gang entrusts a four aces cheat to a man and later the man is found dead in chaparral. the community’s mock courtesy gives way to a grim outcome. The piece laments selfish indifference and questions moral drift.
In a Missouri town, Aunt Sallie orders her daughter Mary indoors with threats of punishment if she disobeys. The confrontation centers on respect, control, and Mary’s claims of company as the country-style scene unfolds amid wary neighbors.
Dialogue shows Humber seeking a proposal from Miss Scadds. She asks for a wrap before stepping onto the porch, and Humber is urged to wear an overcoat. The exchange suggests a chilly eve as they prepare for a private moment.
Professors Shaler of Harvard Callese and Morrison of Boston University uncover a petrified human body in Failing Spring Cave Sequache Valley Tennessee. The find includes copper tools near the throat and suggests a significant prehistoric site.
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