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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1893
Page
5
Gheadeckly Capital reports on a Mitchell South Dakota based ITOCHELL PRINTING Co. The snippet notes a local business entity and location in a compact record. No further details are provided in the readable text.
A dated discussion on makeup for women and the social pressures around aging. The piece contrasts rouge with powder, notes public scrutiny of female appearance, and warns about inauthentic beauty practices. It also includes anecdotes on age perception, women balancing work and homemaking, and hints at broader employment possibilities for women.
A customer asks the price of silk per yard and orders a package of hair pines from a clerk at a shop. The exchange reflects a brisk, period style scene from the Chicago News Record with everyday commerce dialogue.
A woman's cremation society has been organized in what appears to be a continuation of progressive reform ideas. The group seems linked to the same intellectual current as the Frances Cleveland La uence clas and Exchange, suggesting ties to broader feminist and social reform movements.
A brief line from Pucek hints that a woman's face may conceal fine emotions or hidden meanings, suggesting a guarded expression as a poetic device. The remark frames the face as a mask for inner sentiments.
Government demand for labor drives payrolls from the President downward, injecting money into circulation. Gold and silver bullion enter via coinage and sales to the state, while others exchange goods or services for money. Money circulates only when something of value replaces it, and people must offer value in return. The piece urges self reliance and the pursuit of usefulness as a measure of character.
A descriptive piece on walrus value to Arctic peoples, its size and appearance, movement, and social care. It details how skins, bones, and tusks serve tools and clothing, herd behavior, guardianship among adults, and maternal instincts protecting calves, including how natives use calves to lure adults.
An orchid hunter recounts a jaguar pursuit near San Domingo, with two Native laborers and dogs. After tracking at dawn, the jaguar charges and fights, the hunter wounds it, and a shot to the brain ends the threat to the native man as the animal collapses.
A seven foot six inch specimen is described as motionless but impressive. The piece cites American windmills as fundamentally different from European designs. It explains that American mills use many closely spaced blades forming a screw-like rotor that captures nearly the full airflow, delivering greater power and efficiency despite a smaller unit. The text notes adoption across England, Germany, France, Holland, and colonies, underscoring global spread of American ingenuity.
A restrained tale from rural Maine recalls a gentleman of the old school living miles from town who habitually rode the Portland train late at night. His loyal driver ferried him home after 11 pm until the stable owner warned him the group would alarm neighbors with singing to his house, prompting a change in behavior.
The sedan chair named for Se dan town first used there. England's earliest reference is 1581. In the early 1600s the Duke of Buckingham faced indignation for using carriers instead of horses in London. Prince Charles brought from Spain in 1623 three sedans two given to Buckingham. Weeks later Massinger’s play The Bondman mentions ladies borne in triumph on shoulders, likely referring to Buckingham's sedan.
A physician recounted a tale to contrast nerve tension in men and women. He notes male nurses sighed during a leg amputation but fainted at the sight of the severed limb, while female nurses stayed steady until the limb was removed and then fainted. The anecdote, cited from Argonaut, highlights gendered reactions to bodily injury.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes that silk can come from bamboo fibers and from pods of the silk cotton tree, producing fine colored and vegetable silk. these are inferior yet used for clothing in tropical regions due to lightness and porosity. A preacher urges love in marriage while often marrying for money.
In a Free Press comic exchange Mr. and Mrs. Jones trade a jokey tall tale about Simpson and a fur coat. The rim shot centers on a bet about the coat's lining, with suspects ranging from cat to calf, and the punchline landing on calf hide.
A United States Marshal reports a moonshine operation in a secluded North Georgia canyon near Dunwoody. The cave still, fortified by a rock wall and armed guards, has run for years and eludes capture despite raids. Locals say the operator and workers defend the site as authorities may not breach the rugged terrain.
London News lists peerages extinct in 1892 including the dukedoms of Clarence and Avondale, and notes the Drogheda marquisate, Charlecote earldom, Sherbrooke viscounty, and Bramwell and Winmarleigh baronies. It also records surviving Drogheda and Charlemont titles, other 1592 Burke editions, and various gains and losses among dukedoms, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons, and baronets with instances of restoration and abeyance.
The chalk under London has been heavily pumped for water, with over 200 wells in use. Water levels have dropped from early century rises to about forty feet below Trinity high water mark, and the rate of decline is estimated at one to two feet per year.
Water pumped from the chalk beneath London reduces the natural overflow feeding distant springs and streams. The action noticeably shifts the regional water balance as distant watercourses feel the impact of local pumping drawn from the chalk.
A Washington reporter recalls Gen. Ben Butler’s extraordinary memory and ability to sleep. Working eighteen hours, he paused to sleep twenty minutes and returned refreshed, then gently dismissed a longtime supporter who had betrayed him fifteen years earlier, saying he remembered the man by name but not the promise.
A Newfoundland fell from a slippery rock into the fast Niagara currents near Luna Island. Four tourists saved the dog from the cataract, despite severe injuries. He received veterinary care, healed, and became a local hero, still near the falls but avoiding the river.
The article explains that Chinese copper cash issues a complex system for money across the empire. Scales vary by city and standard, causing exchange losses. Different regions and peoples, including Mongols and Tibetans, use silver ingots, brick tea, or their own silver currencies, rather than copper cash.
The article lists thunder day frequencies by region with Java at about 97 days per year, Sumatra at least 86, Hindoostan around 56, Borneo 54, the US African Gold Coast 52, and the region near Rio de Janeiro Brazil about 51 days per year.
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