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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
3
A short OCR fragment mentions regular items and terms like whip and mitted, but lacks a clear subject, date, or event. No identifiable persons, organizations, or places are readable, leaving the note ambiguous.
Linen gowns and trimming details appear in this season’s fashion notes, highlighting redingotes and cutaway coats, lace bands, eyelets, and draped demi-toilet skirts. A lyric reflection by Norah Perry follows, imagining a long awaited meeting and reunion.
Tested cream soup recipe uses soft shelled clams milk butter flour onion and seasonings. Simmer milk with onion then incorporate creamed butter and flour, add clam liquor and clams, cook briefly and season to taste.
A recipe describes making a cream of clam soup using the same ingredients plus a pint of cream. Clams are simmered washed and pounded, liquor drained, then combined with pounded clams and cream. Serve hot with croutons.
Wash a head of celery and cut into inch pieces. Boil briefly in little water until pulpy. In a double boiler simmer milk onion and mace. Mash celery in its water, add to milk. Cream butter and flour, blend in, season with salt and pepper, cook five minutes, strain and serve. A cup of cream at the end enriches.
A lyrical reflection on small moments of light amid gray days. The poem enumerates gentle acts of patience grace and resilience guiding readers toward quiet optimism.
A meditation on true charity contrasts hollow gifts with quiet, meaningful aid. The speaker links generous acts to inner beauty and spiritual sustenance, noting that duty alone yields little value without sighted generosity. The passage ends with a critique of ostentation unfunded by genuine support.
Harold Titcomb a New Orleans mining engineer marries Miss Sethe Brignall sister of artist Ralph Peacock after a romance sparked by a painting in the Tate gallery. The couple plan a honeymoon in Canada and Maine and will reside in England.
A column argues fathers must share equally in children’s moral and educational training. It challenges the view that mothers alone bear responsibility, citing many boys going astray when fathers fail their duties and urging a revise in creed to include a active, self denying father as essential to a well behaving family.
An Paris dressmaker counsels against ripping old gowns. Retimming with a tinted guimpe of filet and duchess satin can create a new jumper look. Short puffy sleeves are slimmed by trim along the shoulder seam to lengthen the shoulder silhouette. A long lace undersleeve reaching the knuckles enhances modishness.
Countess Szechenyi formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt receives her first lesson in Hungarian domestic customs. As with American brides she gained many gifts of sterling silver marked with V V’s erased for the Szechenyi crest by her husband before shipment to Europe.
A lyric excerpt recalls a night scene where a beloved woman weaves a sacred thread of gold through the speaker's life. The imagery blends moonlight and dew as the lover's story becomes the speaker's fate, ending with the name adding glory to the love tale.
A Chicago News item recalls a sultry afternoon scene where a girl in a Merry Widow hat rakes hay, flashing “the eye” as passing men honk by. The narrator claims uncertainty about the girl’s identity, noting he was among the onlookers but cannot judge.
The passage surveys timeless remedies for love from Ovid to French writers and Latin authors, arguing absence, travel, work, or close friendship can curb passion. It notes cynics blame marriage woes for romantic misery, yet many writers were unhappy with their own mates.
Modern society reports alarm in certain circles this season as the world adopts the French woman's custom of offering the left hand in greeting. The gesture leaves a man awkward and unsure whether to extend left or switch to the right. Some suggest raising the extended hand, though that remedy would not suit all places or times.
The piece details an autumn palette with blue tones dominating, ranging from bluish greens to cloudy and navy shades. Soft fabrics and supple textures mark the look, with browns, reds, greens, and grays in varied hues. A vogue for black appears alongside modest silhouettes, long sleeves, and longer coats.
London Special notes a craze for bold color contrasts in women's dress at Ascot. A dark-haired lady wore emerald green directoire coat over ivory lace, with a large green ostrich feather hat and green sunshade. Another wearer paired Rose du Barri satin charmeuse with chalk white Shantung, accented by a rose-laden pin hat.
Dances may come and go, but the waltz marks its centenary this year and remains the most graceful courtly dance. It outlasts the minuet era and inspires beloved melodies, with skilled partners evading wallflower status in social gatherings.
A veteran manager recalls a strange baseball tale where the Salmon Sliders dominate with players inhaling from cans labeled for each position. Ether fumes boost hits and speed until the supply runs dry, ending a topsy turvy game with the Sliders collapse after the ether is used up.
British authorities state that American immigrants are taking 50 million dollars worth of property into Canada each year, reflecting a large transfer of assets across the border.
Washington reports the 1907 1908 fiscal year shows rising river commerce and fewer snags. Captain E H Schulz seeks 1 million dollars for 1908 1910 to begin improvements and 2 500 000 to repair existing works along a 12 foot channel Kansas City to the mouth with options to Sioux City and additional river sections.
Ernest Bauman of Berlin Michigan studied plough churned arrowhead chips to learn how Indians produced them. He discovered that chiseling flakes could be done with a pointed wood tool by rubbing against flint to create a perfect arrowhead in under an hour for David W Kendall of Grand Rapids.
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