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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1894
Page
2
A fragmentary verse recalls a childhood walk through fields of gold and wheat. The speaker describes joyful companionship, a lone departure, and a final return to a stone engraved with Her Lith Joy, as grief and memory accompany the voyage back to the loved one.
Caroline Buell contemplates loss and self sacrifice as she prepares to leave Miriam Bayright’s country house. Ferdinand De Voe arrives with news of Miriam’s fiancée, revealing tangled affections. Three months later Caroline meets Ferdinand, who reveals his broken engagement and invites her to meet another man on the beach.
Miriam leaves Caroline in charge of Ferdinand De Voe after promising to stay through the month. They share rides, readings, and tennis while Caroline sings in the drawing room. Mrs Le Voe’s arrival prompts fresh tensions as Miriam plans to return home.
The article reports on advances in artificial silk production, detailing a method where collodion threads are solidified into elastic, silk-like strands by passing through water that absorbs ether and alcohol. A safety step involves plunging the spun thread in ammonia solution to slow combustion.
A 360 pound Indianapolis man named Harry Jennings makes a living by sitting. He occupies chairs and answers phones for clients who run offices while they take lunch, performing light duties without leaving his seat. His preferred pose is a reclined, chin-on-back position during long sessions as he collects a pension for obesity. Bee fighting has been suppressed by Government order in Salt.
The article outlines New Jersey as the leading market for sturgeon and caviare, detailing production, pricing, and labor. It notes major fishing areas, capital invested, and the distribution network to Europe and U.S. buyers, along with factors driving supply and decline.
An old New York Advertiser piece urges personal hygiene for eye health, listing 43 potential eye diseases and stressing ventilation, outdoor air, and daily sunlight. It notes contagion risks, reduces eye infections through proper towel use, and describes a simple self check for cataracts using a card and needle.
A theatrical company stuck in a snowy Western town cooked a lunch from rain represented by beans. They improvised heat with stage thunder and lightning using a tin sheet and sulfur powder, then ate the beans with relish after simulating a rainstorm. The anecdote highlights backstage improvisation amid hunger and寒.
In Peter the Great era Russia valued court jesters and dwarfs, often held in high esteem by nobles. Dwarfs served at state dinners, behind lords, or held snuff boxes, sometimes captured as prisoners of war. Menshikov sent two dwarfs to his wife with a parrot like description. One dwarf lived nearly a century, sounding childlike except for a sharper voice.
A Scottish ministerial dinner tale contrasts temptation on a sunny Sabbath with the instinct to sin. One says he never feels tempted, he merely goes. The other observes even near heaven the devil presses, and resistance defines moral struggle.
A French meteorological association president notes Europe sees plentiful storms while equatorial zones have fewer. France records daily storms in some areas, totaling 328 in six to seven months of 1892, whereas Sumatra’s monsoon season yields no thunder and Peru has weathered only one or two storms in a century since 1803. The piece closes with a religious exhortation about prayerful effort.
Monroe Marshall a colored convict escaped from the Fulton County chain gang twenty one years ago after overpowering two guards and eluding bloodhounds. He fled to Texas, returned to Atlanta years later, and was recaptured after a tip from another Black man. Marshall was jailed again in Atlanta for the old crime.
A note from Blackwood's Magazine describes the Mashkiquemuchas or marsh cup water plant found in mossy muskegs of Hudson Bay. It bears foxglove shaped flowers with varied colors and a bell that stores water, forming ice in the calyx on frosty nights. Native name Mashkiquemuchas.
Experiments at Newport torpedo station show a 100 pound mine visibly affects a submerged torpedo boat at eighty feet, though life remains intact. Findings suggest nearer detonations may collapse the boat only when distance to the surface is smaller than mine to surface, challenging prior assumptions about submarine warfare utility.
A devotional line asserts that in doing good one can rely on God and angels for guidance and support. The note emphasizes faith, virtue, and protective presence as motivation for positive action.
A historical anecdote recounts General Harney ordering the execution of deserters near the Convent of Chepultepec. Deserters were hanged from ridge poles as artillery and infantry converged on Chepultepec, with prisoners suspended as the battle raged and the American flag rose.
The superintendent of the Rindge industrial school in Cambridge Massachusetts replaced military drill with fire drill. Fire Commissioner Fitch lauds the plan as practical training that teaches the gravity of fire risks and the basics of prevention and response.
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls a narrow City Yard with apricot trees and two prized plum trees near the house. The narrator recalls a grandfather using a fruit-harvesting hook, amid grapevines and pigeons, contrasting prewar simplicity with postwar suburban wealth and debt.
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