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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1886
Page
7
The line notes the Northwest General Superintendent position discussed in the article. It highlights duties, duties, and organizational context without extra details. The text references the office and its responsibilities within the regional administration.
Quiet city wealth overspends on art and trinkets as Dew Drop the 3 year old filly sells for $29,000. Mary Jane Morgan spent about $3.8 million on a vast art collection, including a $15,000 peachblow vase, while critics call the collection a monument to avarice. The article surveys the Morgan fortune built on the steam line to Panama, then spent on antiquities and orchids, with auction results showing the vase fetching $18,000 later.
The Greeks wore a double hollow belt around their loins to carry money deposited on their persons. Harvard College wealth totals 4 922 808 dollars with 1 903 770 in real estate 1 779 854 in railroad bonds and 640 987 in notes and mortgages.
A Granha Chilled Plow Works vice president stayed at a hotel where around 9 to 10:30 PM a porter intruded into his room. The intruder, Thomas, violently ejected Johnson, fired a pistol then fled with two others down the stairs. The owner fainted upon reading a slate showing No. 40 fire at 10:30.
A fragment from a newspaper page blends a comic dream about tenancy with notes on Theodore Wood’s The Multiplication of Aphides and a portrait of King Milan’s Servian queen. It also references social quips about a daughter and a mother, and ends with a remark on Gobelin tapestry color variety.
A Baltimore American Paris corresp describes Louise Michel in Levallois-Perret living modestly, appearing coarse yet magnetic during a crowded lecture to about 600 followers. She rejects notes, delivers in a monotone, and praises revolutionary actions while mourning a mother’s death.
A National Hotel Reporter piece describes a room clerk who urges sample rooms, a singing chambermaid, a tobacco chewing bell boy, an uncouth bartender, a pushy head porter, an overbearing housekeeper, a bell boy with a brush in his pocket, a greasy haired lead waiter, a coat-room boy who cannot read numbers, a steward who buys cheap fruit, and a bill clerk who never says thank you, painting a vivid caricature of hotel staff.
A Boston writer states as fact that dark shelled eggs contain more nutriment than white shelled eggs. He describes the white of a white shelled egg as lime-water like, while dark eggs have a gelatinous, cohesive white valued for culinary use, claiming it is about one-third more valuable.
A seven column home print folio with AP dispatches serves a vast South Dakota region of about 10 000 square miles and 90 000 population. It promotes itself as a premier medium for home and foreign advertising in the west. Rates and subscription options for one year six months three months one month one week are listed with mail delivery and city distribution. Single copies cost five cents and advertising rates are available on request.
The Weekly Capital, a long standing Dakota paper with over 2200 readers, emphasizes its position among the most enterprising settlers in the county. It boasts 56 columns of first class reading matter weekly and plans improvements to become the best family newspaper in the west.
One year and three months sample copies free. Advertising rates made known on application.
A clipped local report notes fines were reduced for several cases and highlights disputes over penalties. It mentions judge actions and multiple unnamed defendants, with emphasis on the ongoing court activity and procedural outcomes.
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