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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
2
Old gardener Jerry guards a troubled mistress and her master at their grounds. He fertility tends a dying love bush as the couple reconciles, discovering a new shoot a sign of renewed hope.
A story from St Nicholas describes a large captive tiger with dyspepsia. A keeper climbs the cage with bottle and whip and administers medicine by luring the animal to bite the lash, then pours a medicine stream, finally coating the tiger's paws as he licks them clean.
Justice Grantham of England encounters a carriage smoker who refuses to read a card he just handed. The judge plans to prosecute, but the guard reveals the man is actually the very judge himself, having the card in hand. The incident ends with an admission of the joke.
The piece argues a captain must command his ship to prevent disaster from weak leadership. It recounts a tale of Emperor William I testing a Norwegian pilot who steered safely as the Kaiser demanded speed. It then surveys contraband tobacco handling in England from burial to troop use and eventual disposal debates.
A gill net fisherman near Astoria landed a 375 pound sturgeon and sold it for 20 dollars. The Oregonian notes the big fish rarely sells at that size now as sturgeon stocks decline and surplus has been shipped to Portland docks for fertilizer after freight refusals.
A toy dealer notes a 60 percent rise in demand for children's tin soldiers in three months, predicted by manufacturers as supply meets demand. He cites wartime spikes, recalling 300 percent increases during the Spanish American war and similar bursts in the Civil War, observed by an octogenarian foreman.
A Countess Catherine Ignatieff is praised for giving up wealth to serve as a nursing sister at the front. She previously nursed with Russian regiments in China 1900 and tended Greek wounded in the Greco-Turkish war 1896-97, even learning Greek to aid patients.
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