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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1892
Page
3
A poem condemns a fashionable woman who orders a cloak made from the plumage of Paradise birds slain for luxury. It laments five hundred birds dead for her whim while questioning moral margins that ignore animal suffering and human vanity. The verse pleads for awareness of the torture behind ornate fashion and the value of living creatures.
A San Francisco Examiner tale recounts how a reporter gained access to a wary California household. The journalist used a front door, found a cabinet portrait, and nearly faced a shotgun. A later southern raid tale describes a blustery journey to Tia Juana and a tense midnight home visit where a burglar word sparks a dangerous exchange.
Fish that eat grass spread through King's River and irrigation ditches. Laguna manager S C Gillis says carp have grown so plentiful they thin out ducks and most waterfowl except wild geese. They devour small animal life, threaten widgeon and snipe, and breed rapidly. He urges preventing further introductions to other streams and lakes.
The Frankfort Kentucky Capital reports an Owensboro undertaker advertises free embalming to prove satisfaction. The piece suggests others would benefit from embalming and hopes the undertaker will be deterred from displaying a "before and after taking" specimen.
A humorous survey catalogs famed figures from Bacon to Nelson by height, arguing that stature did not determine intellect or power. It lists rulers, generals, and scholars, noting their inches and deeds, from Keppel and Drake to Napoleon and Wren, ending with reflections on fate and faith.
Walter Blackburn Harte writes in the New England Magazine that ancients cried to Jupiter in trouble yet trusted a sunlit order. He argues dawns and dusks inspire awe, with the sun as eternal beacon, shaping worship across Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and beyond.
In pioneer Vermont a Methodist minister named Elder Brown shortens a marriage ceremony to a brisk handshake and a nod, as a tall groom and bride on horseback stop by his fence. The couple agrees to wed and ride onward, the minister resuming his wood-sawing in shirt sleeves.
In a scene of strong talk a hopeful suitor tells Papa Bendigo he loves Mary and would marry into the family. Bendigo warns of Mary's temper and her mother's insanity while noting the man’s own past crimes and forgery trial. The exchange ends with the suitor exiting, Bendigo exclaiming in disbelief.
Alfred M. Dirkes recalls a harsh Westward cattle drive where college learning clashed with frontier life. He describes being teased in multiple languages by cowboys, including a Yale professor and Oxonian companions, and vows not to dazzle frontier youth with his schooling again.
Scranton, Pa reports a colossal wheel weighing 400,000 pounds. A cog wheel 54 feet in diameter with an 18 inch face can move thirty million gallons of water and two thousand tons of sand every 24 hours, rotating at ten feet per second along the bucket edge. The shaft spans 23 feet 6 inches. It is easier to jump from a frying pan than from the tire.
A San Bernardino rancher recalls his clever son who built a six foot kite topped with branches and tar to lure and trap eleven wild geese. The boy hauled in geese, claiming six carloads to Los Angeles for sale, as a Formona Progress story notes.
In a Richmond club tale during tariff debates Alexander H. Stephens recalled a Georgia neighbour who chased a steam engine after seeing a railway. The countryman, shaken by the locomotive, blamed the strange apparition on a “plaguy tariff” that had "broke loose" and frightened him more than the bird or track.
Lord Wolseley recalls befitting nerves through smoking during campaigns. Qaida heroes and cavalry charges are linked with large cigars. He admits quitting after desert days in 1885 yet recounts lighted cigars after Tel el Kebir and Tel-el-Kebir actions.
A boy preacher addressed a large gathering perched on a chair with cap in hand. He delivered a confident talk and misquoted a biblical line, then corrected himself and smiled as he continued.
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