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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
4
The column advises sowing nasturtiums now for indoor blooms through winter, using well drained soil and dwarf varieties. It covers pasture planning for swine, changing seed potatoes every few years, and feeding skim milk to poultry. It also discusses home furnace benefits, apple marketing, rock breeds, cow care at night, grain use for cows, and packaging ideas for produce.
The article surveys teacup divination, noting grounds, stalks, and saucering as fortune telling lore. It references Rossetti, Miss Bird, and Johnson, recalling customs from Britain and Japan. It cites rules for fortune outcomes, like a soft stalk signaling a female stranger and a hard stalk a male, plus variations such as spoon-in-cup signals and grave tea habits.
Pittsburg mayor compares voting lists to a Fourth of July Sunday school scene noting that lists may be overly favorable. He recalls a June Sunday when a superintendent asked for questions and a young boy asked if there is a school picnic this Fourth.
Archival notes describe Ernest Baynes and E. H. Mies exploring buffalo calves as future draft animals. Four calves moved from the Corbin estate to Meriden, then trained in crates and halters, pulling a stoneboat and later a cart. By five to six months they showcased speed at a New Hampshire fair, with Baynes asserting buffaloes could surpass oxen in speed, strength and endurance.
A London Mail report describes a new summer ailment labeled a summer cold. Doctors note it resembles winter colds, with shivers and throat dryness, and offer the so called gold miner's cure involving hot water, lemonade or whiskey, quinine and a cold rub down.
A New York upper West Side housewife orders macaroni for dinner. The cook and husband discover the noodles are off brand from a glue factory or pulp works after the husband boasts macaronis as his long suit.
OCR reads as dialogue about straw items and ostrich feed with mis-typed phrases and stray words. The readable portion shows a husband and a cook discussing straw stacks and returning items. No clear event, date, or named entities are evident.
Mrs. Charles J. Corbett of Camden New Jersey profiles as the world’s only successful female steeplejack. She describes dangerous climbs on gas tanks flagpoles and church spires, earning about $10 a day and sharing work with her husband to strengthen their home life.
A busy lawyer uses a door sign as a lecture text at a college commencement. He tells graduates success hinges on the word push, but the door on the inside says pull, provoking laughter before he clarifies the point.
From the Chicago Record-Herald a humorous remark notes a young lawyer famed for helping to break Bigger son’s will and thus lacking clients. The piece mentions Lieze planning an international position of foolsturts in July and August.
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