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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
8
The Tribune explains a $5,078 prize pool for the Dot Contest with 2,999 cash awards. Judges include Rear Admiral Foss and ex Mayor Pratt. Colburn will certify counts after the official tally. Subscribers may register counts. entry costs apply and proceeds fund subscriptions.
The notice outlines how to submit counts for the Farmers' Tribune contest with rules on name, address, remittance methods, and eligibility. It details subscription-level counts, prize limits, deadlines, and the process for registering counts, plus restrictions on who may enter and where entries are valid.
Minneapolis April 22 1902 First National Bank of Minneapolis lists officers and capital. The Minnesota Tribune Co receives five thousand seventy eight dollars to be paid to contest prize winners upon certified vouchers by judges Robi Pratt J F R Foss and Albert Dollenmayer. Copy by EC Browne.
The paper bills itself as a concise weekly farm publication with Tuesday and Friday issues, 104 yearly. It features short stories, serial fiction installments, fashion, current illustrations, and top market reports for busy readers.
The Tribune awarded cash prizes to 1068 participants in dot contests. Winners include N O Aylesworth a farmer near Talcott W A Welch of Bingham Lake Carl Knutson a clerk in Rothsay Minn Mrs S Sprague of Glenwood and others across Minnesota and Wisconsin. A 16 year old daughter of Mrs Syndah also won tenable cash.
A collection of humorous vignettes recounts Lionel Brough’s billiards quip about giving points to a patient in an asylum, a priest’s teasing correction of a ghost sighting by a parishioner named Pat, and farmer Corntessel debating reading as a business necessity while worrying about railroad tariffs and market supplies.
A collage of brief items notes overheard talk among intellectual men about food, a flirtatious exchange on marriage, a remark on genius and weariness, Salt Lake City water flowing through streets, and a tale of bookbinding mishaps with a Shakespeare marginal note.
A comical exchange shows a defendant claiming lack of responsibility due to being under the influence when he began. the judge questions how he arrived at his condition while the beverage humor underscores the dialogue.
A Detroit Free Press quip recalls a past bridge game where a player jokes about losing money. The remark notes two other women at the table, prompting lighthearted banter about memory and mischief.
A fragment depicts Maggie and Katie in a humorous street scene. The old timer declares undying love to Maggie while he distracts her with boasts about past loves. Katie reacts with playful skepticism as they pass a candy shop, highlighting a comic village mood.
A Pont Ste Maxence resident stored live bait in a tank to deter his cat from fishing. The cat used a trick to drop scraps into the water, lure fish, and eat them when the angler’s guard failed. The Paris Messenger calls the tale an extreme tall story.
London correspondent describes a dispute over shared Ionic pillars in a row of houses with paint showing sides of each pillar. A New York anecdote follows about Edward Lauterbach and a farmer misidentification at Farmers Loan and Trust Company, illustrating a urban misperception.
Vignettes from a bygone era recount social scenes and remarks. A recovered accident victim prompts quiet reverence as a nurse wipes his face. Roosevelt, Nordica, and Clinton Fiske appear in brief, humorous exchanges about manners and dining in chic spots.
Quote from Carl Snyder in Harper's Magazine discusses the extraordinary sensitivity of laboratory tools. It notes photographic plates and telescopes detect stars unseen by the eye, the microscope reveals infinitesimals, and devices like Langley’s bolometer measure temperature changes of a millionth of a degree. The piece contrasts human senses with mechanical sensing.
A meditation on falls in war and mountaineering describing numb entry wounds and delayed pain. The piece notes heightened intellect during a fall, a calm acceptance, and suggests death by fall is peaceful while visions of a blue sky accompany the moment.
A Philadelphia druggist shares amusing patient letters including requests like curing a baby’s stummick, sending nemetic for a child, cork plaster for a dog bite, licorice root for a sick bearer, and a note on paying 5 cents for sody watter. The missives show childlike spelling and earnest medical anxieties expressed in playful tones.
The article explains a social dynamic among black ants with yellow worker ants. Yellow ants do most tasks but sometimes strike. Black ants cut food to coerce workers, then raid. Strikes end when yellows escape to found a new colony or resume work.
A man asks a detective to trail his wife Henrietta who has left town. The Washington Star quotes him wanting truth via false whiskers and a dark lantern. In the Philadelphia Press a joke about moving to a "better" neighborhood ends with the other couple revealing they never moved.
A Philadelphia Bulletin snippet notes a wife seeking cooking lessons after her husband urged her to learn. She responds by calling her mother to arrange a three month course, turning a sharp remark into domestic action.
An angry husband accuses his wife of fooling him and she retorts that he calls himself a self made man. The exchange reflects a cautious view of daily living and making each day worthwhile as quoted from Ladies' Home Journal.
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