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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1893
Page
6
Adrian Brockholst returns to Vera after a jealous crisis and Beth Browie’s charm is exposed as a dangerous lure. Olney’s letter, Hesketh’s baron plan, and Vera’s sacrifice derail the fortunes, leaving Adrian to seek forgiveness and reconciliation with Vera and Aunt Sarah Ann.
In rural England a farmer and a deaf vicar struck a deal to advertise the cow in church in exchange for the farmer attending services. The vicar later announced bans of marriage in church, and the farmer, mishearing the bans as details about the cow, declared the animal a gentle creature that eats well.
The telectroscope uses a selenium cell as transmitter. Light from the object passes through a rotary perforated disk to modulate current. A gas chamber receiver then drives a calcium light to reproduce the image at a distance.
The digest Volume II lists curious trade slang such as bate bell-horse caunched cut-up fudd mungs slop dash work sprigger snigging tingles and The Wrists. It notes a China saying tying a red cord around a baby's wrist to keep it quiet and obedient and blames bad outcomes on parents binding the child's wrists.
A descriptive piece from Bus ton Globe detailing how diverse animals court their mates. Birds flaunt plumage and song with aerial acts and nectar gifts while insects stage dances and web telephones. Spiders gatekeep with feisty reactions and glow worms use light signals in their amorous displays.
A carpenter in Brighton reports three peculiar wild cats living in the spire of the first Parish church. The long shaggy animals with tusklike teeth and tufted noses moved between rafters, possibly feeding on birds, with no clear water source or how they entered. The man plans to capture them.
A Dusun tribe on Banquey performs marriages in the forest with two families present and no public feast. The rite involves transferring a drop of blood from a calf incision in the man to a similar cut in the woman's leg. Afterward the groom moves the bride to her home and becomes part of her family.
Miss Louise Imogen Guiney is elated by dramatic success. A Boston play last year was praised and a third work is set for the Grand Opera House. A translation of Emil Augier's Marriage d Olympe is announced for the Globe Theater next year.
An old timer’s method recommends pulling the trigger with the second finger while the index finger points along the barrel at the target. The article argues this alignment speeds action, reduces motion, and preserves accuracy, with anecdotes about Lincoln and a tale of a brisk steamboat on the Sangamon River.
The article notes that all beach sands contain gold though not in payable quantities. Some Oregon sands near river mouths are rich but gold lies deep near rock beds and is continually buried by washed-away material. Ocean water holds gold too, with about one grain per ton, enough to gild or draw into wire, yet separation remains economically challenging.
The new British battleships Majesty and Magnificent will top the size list. They measure 390 feet long 75 feet wide and 374 feet deep with 14 900 tons displacement and 174 knots speed. Armament includes four 50 ton 12 inch guns two dozen quick firing 6 inch and 12 pounders plus five torpedo tubes and three submerged for 18 inch torpedoes. Freeboard exceeds Royal Sovereign by about four feet.
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