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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1898
Page
7
The Mitchell Capital forecasts a sequence of storm systems and temperature swings through April. Expect frost risk early month followed by warmer spells, then frequent rain with hail from the 5th to the 8th and a series of spring storms peaking around the 20th and 28th. Cooler northwest winds return toward month end into May.
The South Dakota railroad commission seeks to force the Milwaukee road to establish a Mitchell to Chamberlain passenger train. Judge Smith overruled the demurrer and set twenty days for an answer, with a April 25 hearing date. Commission members LaFollette Tompkins and Kirkpatrick attended alongside many citizens.
The weekly weather table from the government station lists temperatures for the week ending March 30 with a dash marking halauw zanna. A Mitchell Printing Co real estate pamphlet by J. K. Smith highlights 36 pages of ads and 18 pages of farming reading, featuring farm life scenes and local industry.
Dr N D Clouser aged 90 and Rose Dill, 16, married in Hartford Indiana last year. The union ended after disputes over finances and lifestyle. The elderly husband now faces public ridicule as the couple separates and the man contemplates the folly of marrying much younger wealth.
Market prices in Mitchell for produce stock and grain are updated every Friday at 10 o clock. The report lists No 2 northern wheat corn oats butter potatoes and livestock prices including fat sheep fat cows and heifers stockers and feeders yearlings and calves hogs with recent ranges.
Readers across Mitchell hear of Ernest Gregory's Monticello stay, S Dwight's Yankton photography venture, and university students returning home. Ads note C P M and O rail excursion sales, Mt Vernon and Plankinton activity, a Peterson wedding, Republication Easter edition, new Ball housing plans, and a Nichols leg injury from a dog scare with Dr Dundass attending.
A Washington Star report quotes a leading cigar dealer noting that cigar poisoning remains poorly understood. He explains that regular smokers may suddenly react badly to a single cigar, with symptoms lasting days, and advises quitting, rinsing, and drinking cold water to counteract the effect.
An exchange suggests Chinese women with short hair are thought to transform into men in the future state, a belief given as an explanation for the rarity of short hair among women who reportedly do not desire degeneration.
A Cornwall New York family reports snakes in their cistern. Each pump brings a long black serpent writhing from the pipe. They tried all the servant girls in town but none will stay over ten minutes.
A hushed theater scene unfolds as Cholly asserts certainty she is not in while The Maid replies she is sure. The exchange hints at job risk for The Maid if her status proves false, highlighting tension and stakes in a domestic or stage setting.
A German government idea proposes growing potatoes in Africa to boost food supply. The remark contrasts the value of seeing the bright side with the even greater value of speaking it, attributed to Puck.
A municipal engineering forecast by George E. Waring explores radical sewage treatment advances. He describes aerated filters purifying waste to drinking water standards and imagines future systems delivering purified water or compressed air via home reservoirs, reshaping city water cycles.
The article critiques Daudet for humane indifference to animals in his rural sketches and laments his avoidance of birds and pets. It notes his harsh view of animals as mere brute warnings and mocks his fear of lap dogs and Jap dogs, contrasting with humaneness in other works.
The klipspringer or klipbok a small sturdy buck stands about two feet high with short four inch horns on the male. Its olive brown hollow hair is valued for saddles while its stiff legs and hollow jagged hoofs enable sure footholds on steep cliffs and krantzes.
In the sandy deserts of Arabia, whirling winds allegedly excavate pits up to 200 feet deep, reaching the harder stratum beneath the vast sand bed. The phenomenon illustrates how aeolian processes sculpt dramatic vertical shafts in arid landscapes.
A Philadelphia Ledger correspondent recounts hiring an Irishman as a grass cutter and domestic helper. He proves capable washing a carpet, scrubbing bricks, and tending a yard, earning dinner, vegetables, clothes, and fifty cents, highlighting skilled men in heavy housework.
A Washington Post interview with Joseph Copeland of Laredo details the Rio Grande’s shifting channel due to sandbars and floods. The river disrupts smugglers and even water supply for Fort Ringgold, prompting repeated repairs and a proposal to abandon the post before the army decided to persist.
Passage from Hindu Manners by Abbe Dubois describes a Brahman who cleans his teeth with a twig only after making an act known to the woods gods. He abstains on many lunar days and celestial events, with dire consequences for violators.
Vienna based society forms to spread his works but imposes rule that members must not have personal dealings with Hugo Wolf the Viennese composer.
The Springfield Republican notes strong public interest in Reed’s occasional remarks. It cites his Philadelphia speech on Stephen Girard and offers several epigrams praising wit, unity, and republican liberty. The piece argues Reed’s sayings endure for their sharp wit and lasting moral insight.
The Russian Empire totals 129,211,114 people with 94,188,750 in European Russia, 9,442,590 in Poland, 9,723,553 in the Caucasus, 2,527,801 in Finland, 5,731,794 in Siberia, 3,415,174 in the Steppe, and 4,175,101 in Transcaspia and Turkestan. An additional 6,413 czar subjects are in Khiva and Bokhara.
The Westminster Review argues that popular low novels occupy time at the expense of intellect and duties, shaping shallow minds with imagined murders and immorality. It warns readers from drawing rooms to kitchens that such literature can prompt unethical behavior.
A Boston Herald account recalls a canal packet vote aboard a Buffalo eastbound boat in which a Democrat and a Whig debated for president. The democrat’s call to vote Martin Van Buren triggered the crew’s fall as the boat passed a bridge, yielding a unanimous result amid a cautionary tale.
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