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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1904
Page
2
On Easter morning Xerxes, a shabby gentleman of leisure and a self described vagabond, contemplates life as a play. He recalls past reverses, meets Tad the newsboy, and shares a plan to seek work tomorrow while churchgoers pass by with mixed pity and curiosity.
The piece describes forcing early spring blooms hepatica and arbutus indoors for Easter table centers, pairing delicate blossoms with spleenwort ferns. It follows Xerxes, a starving soul, as gentle children and a benevolent old woman offer kindness, while a lamb sighting hints at Paschal themes and moral renewal.
Chicago coverage details a dressmaking convention exposing padding techniques used to sculpt figures. Experts defend harmless “white lies” while skeptics question deception, with practical tips like curving the backbone to improve poise and style.
Rome article notes the Vatican plans to return the authentic head of St John the Baptist to the church of San Silvestro in Capite. The relic, kept in a silver reliquary over 100 pounds, has a century rich with miracles and battles over possession.
The text argues the American woman is too inert to walk correctly. It blames lack of posture and the curve of the backbone as the secret to proper movement, contrasting with dress fashion priced at five dollars a yard.
A St James Gazette account recounts how Empress Eugenie sold most of her jewels to an Indian prince to save the dynasty. An Ingush courier travelled undercover through India for months, breaking the jewels down and hiding them in a belt, then delivering them to a prince amid strict secrecy and danger.
Maud asks Irene what book she reads and Irene names Sartor Resartus. Maud finds the title odd and tiresome while Irene explains she must write a paper for an upcoming literary club meeting. Maud presses for the book's subject.
A Pittsburg Dispatch piece suggests seasonable Easter gifts ranging from scent sachets and satin sachets shaped like lilies and pansies to novelty watches in a bleached chrysanthemum motif. Tiny potted ferns on cups, decorated china holders, and sachets with floral designs populate an array of Easter gift ideas alongside art linen travel sets and washable turnover collars.
The article analyzes how oats acreage rose 76 percent 1880–1890, then barely 4 percent 1890–1900, while corn and wheat expanded. It argues rotation shifts favor corn and grasses, reducing oats, and urges careful seed, slight rotation change, and targeted acreage increases to meet rising demand and prices.
Chiyesa, a Sioux student, describes his view of New Englanders in Harper’s Magazine. He notes educated Yankees as frugal, industrious, and opinionated, contrasts them with prairie abundance, observes farmers wasting sound fruit, and remarks how mills overwork every brooklet.
The London Chronicle reports King Edward, honorary chief of the Blucher hussars, donated 1000 marks to a monument fund for Marshal Vorwarts, ally of Wellington at Waterloo. The monument will stand at Stolp in Pomerania near Varzin, Bismarck’s Tusculum.
An Ohio woman who drove her husband to drink filed for divorce but later remarried him to help reform him.
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