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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1886
Page
7
A feature on Hereford cattle origins in England, their status as premier beef animals, and suitability for cross breeding. It describes breed traits, beef yield, and exhibition success, with guidance on hide pulling and curing skins for tanning. Also includes short notes on cotton compost, pond experiments, and a humorous cremation verse.
The Furnishing Gazette notes a swift move away from plain round collars toward pointed neckwear. Styles range from small to large point ends to suit tastes, with new patterns like the Larchment imitating knot ties. Bright red scarfs with stripes and checks gain popularity as men expand their neckwear variety.
A broad excerpt covers suicide statistics by age, sex, and occupation, noting higher male rates, shifts with age, and methods such as drowning and poisoning. It also notes green oysters’ color source, and various other curiosities including temperance trends, Diphtheria mortality, California temperatures, and a large U.S. steel rifle at the Washington navy yard.
The article describes a black lace bonnet with bronze bead coronet and lace scarf, plus a rosette trim. It details green, pink, and blue dinners for debutantes with color-coordinated table settings, flowers, and costumes. It also notes Wagner color influence and blue dinner challenges. It closes with fashion notes on new dress goods and fabrics like veiling and etamine in various colors and patterns.
Straw hats and garnet beaded slippers appear in spring fashion. Large wall fans and Bordy fabric updates decorate outfits. The Washington Monument Society discusses a moving obelisk with a daily sway as sunlight shifts. Professor Muller notes tedious passages in Homer and Goethe. Cotton picking costs in the southern states reach about 40 million dollars annually.
French dressmakers abandon all waist darts even for stout figures. Waists sit flat with a bias front sewn to a straight plastron, creating shape via a neck to basque seam. Striped fabrics highlight the bias front, plastron contrast, and new plastron choices. Petticoat fashions shift from dark silk ruched trims to moire and watered fabrics with springs for stiffness.
Excerpts from the Massachusetts board of health reveal arsenic in wall papers since Wood and Draper reports. Illness linked to heavily charged wallpaper cited in Boston hearings. cases include clergyman family exposures with numbness, fatigue, and sore throat.
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The Weekly Capital proclaims a readership among Dakota settlers and claims to be the oldest paper in Davison County. It advertises 56 columns of first class matter weekly and plans improvements to become the west's best family newspaper. Subscription rates are listed with annual and quarterly options, and sample copies are available free. Advertising rates are provided on application.
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