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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1899
Page
12
A serialized miscellany for children includes Frances’s quiet descent, a DIY hand exercise, a tale of the Sultan’s cupbearer, a cork-finned fish, and a moral about Kenneth’s debt. A boy earns income cleaning yardwork to buy a banty rooster and learns the value of paying cash.
The Life of Henry A Wise recounts Wise visiting Crockett family on a Virginia island and biting chicken with his fingers. He explains his method eased Mrs Crockett’s embarrassment by signaling humility and shared table manners.
A Sorucket Club talk on Socialism and its course opens with a parable about birds fish and moles to stress living within one’s native element. A comic exchange from the Boston Transcript closes the fragment, hinting at social satire and flirtation.
A historical note explains microbes multiply rapidly, estimating that 15 water drops with bacteria into broth could yield a germ population rising to 80,090,000 within hours.
A Chicago man described his self-made ripening nitroglycerin explosion and how a twenty-pound can left in a New York hotel check room supposedly altered his hair to pure white. He recalled the near-disaster and the jubilation when the explosive apparently vanished.
A man tries to sell a dog to Philip D. Armour in Chicago with a $200 asking price and a wry response. Lord Cairns is refused entry to Hanwell Lunatic Asylum amid regulations. A bride recalls crowded travel and a guard mishearing “love-birds.” A cavalry officer tale features Col. Mackenzie and Capt. McLaughlen on a Texas plains scout with a dusk moment.
A young smoker challenges claims about cigarette harm and refuses vows to quit. He and a friend test his resolve by watching a street vendor peddle cheap cigars and cigarettes, then he deliberately destroys his own pack and never smokes again.
A writer recalls Admiral Kirkland as a strict disciplinarian who loathed affectation among young officers. He orders a lieutenant to remove epaulets and belt, even threatening with a sword, and rebukes a midshipman who assumed the Admiral knew his telegrams.
An Indian West Indies woman patents a revolving toothbrush with a circular brush head on a spirally grooved handle sliding in a frame. Pressing the protruding end powers the brush. releasing causes the handle to return and continue revolutions. A poetic line compares love to a balloon and marriage to a parachute.
An account from Lake Pennesseewasse details a giant eight‑foot water snake swallowing a three‑pound pickerel after a tense struggle. The next day the snake’s corpse was found with the fish still inside, suggesting the eater drowned from delaying its victory celebration. The New York Press notes the snake won the fight but died from the overexertion.
A survey of items notes Canada bans alcohol at camps, London charities earn over 35 million annually, Canadian ministers seek Presbyterian ordination, a vast cave in Victoria BC explored twelve miles, viticulture expands in New South Wales, a monument to lucifer match inventor Sauria planned in Jura, London gas securities strong over decade, Central Asia lies far from oceans near Tsian Shan with Russian meteorology, pine lands near Vine Bluff sold for over 500000, an English town Eccles boasts first motor milk cart with eighty mile rounds, painted coffee beans enter adulterated food market with imitator Mocha features.
A collection of humorous written excuses to justify late arrival by pupils. Notes include misspellings and quirky reasons such as bread kneading after breakfast and coat mending. One longer tale describes a pupil delayed by a cow kicking him, with playful language and exaggerated illness claims.
A Yale College professor answers a doorbell to find a man convulsed in laughter who reports selling Mark Twain's new book and anxiously awaits the door opening for reactions. The scene recurs at several houses as the canvasser repeats the same performance with varying results. Other tales recount shipwreck survivors and a telegraphic message signaling danger or victory.
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