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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1898
Page
6
News from Beulah and nearby towns reports farming activity in August. Farmers threshing wheat and packing hay amid cool harvest weather. Local residents visit Mitchell and Emsley. social events include birthday gatherings, church programs, and missionary planning. Several families are mentioned, with notes on sickness, travel, and small incidents around Beulah, Badger, Mt. Vernon and surrounding communities.
A brief note records yields for the first of the week. Mr Young’s oats averaged about 331 bushels per acre and his wheat 12 to 13 bushels per acre. Ira Frasier’s crop yielded around 15 bushels per acre.
W H Dean travels to Sheldon Illinois on a multi day business trip. Jay Ainslie takes charge of H F Kilborn s thresher for the fall. Jesse Stebler assists S C Michi in stacking grain. Henry Schlund buys a new mower. A wedding may be planned soon. Mabel Snow visited Harry Parkins over Sunday. The creamery kids run a morning skale, crickets affect grain, threshing near Letcher ends last week for two to three weeks. Lisbon township bans chicken hunters. Rattlesnakes move west toward prairie. several killed locally. A dance at Kilborn s Friday invites all.
Government local station records a week long temperature range with daily highs and lows. Observations show notable shifts in daytime heat and overnight cool spells across the period, reflecting seasonal transition and regional climate patterns.
The passage explains Bain's degradation theory of laughter. Laughter arises when a dignified person or valued interest is shown in a mean light or exposed as weak or petty under circumstances that do not provoke stronger emotion. It notes the ludicrous stems from respecting someone or something being degraded in a trivial or solemn context.
Sir William Harcourt recalls a memory of assisting public worship regulations. He visited Lord Beaconsfield at Hughenden Manor with a guest representative of broad acres. On the village church path, the lord warned of the high church move ment, and described church collection and alms in his own terms to the visiting politician.
In a courtroom exchange a defense attorney pleads the accused should be returned home to a wife and children, only to be interrupted by the judge who notes the defendant is unmarried. The exchange highlights the irony of the defense appeal and the judge’s countermove.
A New York Commercial Advertiser note contrasts California’s vibrant red purple and yellow landscape with eastern greenness. It praises Californians for color yet describes eastern damp tones as an esthetic bath, noting Californians find the east scenery green, while California’s climate is high hot and dry.
A Washington Star feature notes French nail biting is widespread among children and that Americans, though nervous, imitate the habit. It argues the only cure is willpower, as many remedies fail and long-term biting harms nail shape.
Two Civil War era anecdotes describe sailors and prisoners. A Boston aboard the San Francisco saw sailmaker’s mate Alexander Parker overwhelmed with liquor gifts, then punished by Captain Parker for intoxication. In a Georgetown prison tale, a Confederate officer’s shirt request leads to a marriage when a wealthy young woman marries him after the war.
A suburban widow, heir to a hefty estate, faced loss if she remarried. For years an elderly Grand Army of the Republic veteran courted her kindly. She bought him a blue suit with brass buttons for a parade. He married another, leaving her heartbroken. She recalled his kindness and his supposed motive, lamenting a life of security she could not have.
A New York Ledger summary notes housewives favor potatoes that stay firm and brown during boiling. A scientist explains that albumen, not starch, causes skins to burst. Typical potato composition is three fourths water, two tenths starch, and one fiftieth nitrogenous matter. cracking signals albumen deficiency.
A New York Herald report explains there are 12 Hawaiian letters with given pronunciations, noting a 13th letter added by missionaries. It contrasts high and low caste speech, explains vowel sounds and word stress, gives Waikiki’s pronunciation, and discusses aloha as greeting and expression of affection with emphasized warm forms.
A Detroit woman recounts a Kansas tale where her husband, on business, was jailed by a spiteful real estate dealer. At the trial the bride aimed her opera glasses at the justice, prompting the magistrate to order the glasses removed and then fine her $1,000 for contempt. She then asked to defend herself.
A bench witness explains the glasses were not harmful and were shown to the justice who, after a brief apology, presented them to the defendant. The court reconvened after a mighty blow to the table and fined the prosecuting witness $26 for insult to a visiting lady and gentleman in contrariety for law and etiquette.
The Westminster Gazette recounts how Jean Richepin after years of bootblacking and portering in a Paris attic room with scattered manuscripts found a future as a dramatist. A chance reunion at a railway station with an old college friend led to publication of his poetry, causing an immense sensation and launching his literary career.
Medical science has made little progress in Turkey. Missionaries report people ill from smallpox neglected to satisfy perceived divine will. An tongue injury heals faster by nature than any other part of the body.
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