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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
4
The article discusses creating a new apple variety from Ben Davis and McIntosh to merge Ben Davis beauty with better flavor. It notes the unnamed cross is promising but untested, larger in size, and still needs refinement to retain Ben Davis appearance while improving quality. It also covers gardening tips and poultry feeding practices.
The article urges sowing Swedish turnips on well prepared soil for winter feed and argues root crops profit when land costs and labor are balanced. It weighs raspberry versus strawberry profitability, notes renewals every seven to eight years, and endorses expanding with raspberries near cities. It also covers the vineless potato controversy, advises using state experiment stations for new varieties, and outlines simple poultry house ventilation.
A Washington Star piece recalls a Sunday at Benning where a young man raced to place a Winchester bet with a $10 note, a stalled New York avenue car delayed the effort, and a motorist collected the wager just as horses lined up. Other bets involve Fiat at 10 to 1, a restaurateur misplacing a fiat bet, and Nutwood’s nose win prompting two Baltimore women to bet $2 each amid playful bravado.
Two plumbers in Detroit last week worked on unlikely tasks earning 60 cents hourly. A woman asked for a dog wash and another hired care for a baby while she shopped, paying 1.80 dollars after three hours.
A Chicago Daily News piece recounts a spring club party built around a Dutch luncheon and costumes. Harry's elaborate disguise provokes laughter until a twist reveals a mistaken guest, leading to blame and little remorse from the host.
A Tennessee court story recounts a pig theft case where an old man known as Uncle Rastus is found guilty but given a suspended sentence. The judge questions the motive as the prisoner explains his starving family. The tale highlights racial language and a reluctant resolution in a historical context.
During a New York dinner Carl Schurz rebuked a millionaire poet who sneered at politics. The speaker claimed he'd rather be a third-rate poet than a first-rate statesman, prompting Schurz to retort that such pretenders lack real political weight.
A sleeper car meditation on charity and Christian parables unfolds aboard a coastbound train. A minister and priest jockey for moral stance as a man helps a sick girl, comforts an epileptic youth, and aids a grieving family, finding meaning in sowing kindness.
The Wolfe family learns their long lost cousin Peter Kronheim, a South Africa pearl broker, secretly sent twenty-five $1,000 bills and a pearl necklace eight years after abandoning fortune. Kronheim, now a Botswana Montana holder of ranches and gold mines, seeks his brother near Washington.
The quoted exchange notes that everything seems to rise in price except human life, which costs less than ever, prompting Griggs to remark that life is not a necessity.
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