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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
4
An article discusses high milk storage costs in ice boxes and outlines a simple framing method. It advises using a 2x2 frame with four corner legs to elevate the bottle top above the ice, ensuring proper cooling in frotties and cans.
The article outlines a bottle box rack to support cans of milk with bottles between racks, reducing ice use and easing handling. It also covers fruit packing appliances, sorting troughs, honest labor, and efficient handling to improve fruit quality.
The article advises keeping grain on the Moor to tempt hens for scratching while avoiding floor feeding. It covers broody hens, feeding adjustments during moulting, and cleanliness of a poultry wagon. It stresses clean, well presented eggs and meat, plus humane handling. Hog care includes clean pens, fresh water, green fodder, and proper grain storage. It also details potting strawberry plants for an experimental plot and a simple hog trough from a cider barrel setup.
A historical overview of notable long distance and endurance rides from 1769 onward. It cites Queen Elizabeth I’s messenger journey to Edinburgh, the Kaiser’s 6 kilometer Berlin to Vienna ride, Cape Town to Grahams Town feats, and later riders like Sir Henry Smith, Richard King, Cowper Thornhill, Bernard Calvert, and others achieving remarkable distances and times with horses or on foot.
Popular Mechanics notes a nine by six by twenty foot camera owned by Professor G R Lawrence of Chicago. The device uses more than thirty gallons of glue in its body and features a twelve inch lens costing 1500 dollars. Plates measure eight by four feet eight inches and weigh over 200 pounds.
Optimist notes the boarding house never serves hash yet sings of plenty. Pessimist quips nothing ever left over to make hash, revealing a humorously strained dining room dynamic.
The London Answers reports on cosmetic tattooing that creates a lasting blush and thick eyebrows using antiseptic technique and electric tattooing. The process, done with cocaine in coloring solution and careful needle placement, promises painless sessions across four one hour sittings.
A lover confesses his thin income and moral doubt about leaving the lover from her father’s home. The girl counters that she does not live on the roof, framing a modest, intimate disagreement over independence and care.
This piece argues English birds like the nightingale skylark blackbird and redstart inspire American nature lovers more as literature than in person. The author notes Americans’ familiarity with English birds through Wordsworth and others, yet emphasizes real comparison requires seeing both English and American species in their habitats.
A chance encounter unfolds as a shabby man begs for food from a passerby. The man advances, then reveals he is a bank depositor and offers a quarter to the beggar. The exchange hints at financial desperation and a cautious response from the lender.
A frightened four year old named Helen is startled when a nurse shows the infant to a bishop. The bishop asks to hold the baby and the girl, awed by the churchman, hesitates then cleverly offers a deal. She promises to let him have the next baby instead.
From the London Express report in Toulon, a journalist recalls a night visit to a dim room where navy officers smoked opium. The piece describes the drug’s grip, the smoking process, and the danger posed to ships, noting efforts by the minister of marine to curb the vice.
A speaker argues piracy profits from politeness and courtesy. He notes good manners ease social friction, urging thoughtful behavior in everyday encounters from elevators to snow paths, claiming civil conduct prompts reciprocal civility and reduces conflict.
Dr. Phin explains how a New York spider lifted a milk snake using elastic silk as a lifting mechanism. The piece compares spider silk strength to rubber bands and shows how elasticity enables lifting heavy loads by sequentially shortening multiple threads. A stray note mentions a 19th century court case and a whiskey sale in Lawton, Oklahoma.
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