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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1897
Page
5
In Dublin an audience event features a thought reader who claims he can locate a hidden marked pin. A Trinity student, part of a setup with a confederate, removes the pin and pretends the reader is blindfolded. The student challenges the reader, then the trick ends when the reader smirks and retrieves the pin from his coat.
A conversation quoted in the Indianapolis Journal lists Bill Bright and Abner Bruntwistle among “men of standing” who spend their days standing around the deepee, illustrating a humorous view of notable locals and their idle reputation.
The note surveys how Turkish baths are named abroad, with Austria calling them Roman baths and Germany using Romische-Turkische dampf bad. It mentions a coal mine in a New South Wales mountain burning for over a century near Sydney and claims Princess Louise of Bavaria as a de jure queen viewed by English Jacobins as the last Stuart descendant.
Mr. VanAlstine advertises high grade bicycles and sales. A Milwaukee excursion crowd arrives in Sioux City, plus a Scotland vs Tyndall baseball game score 15 to 12. The Congregational Sunday School picnic goes to White's grove. A miller. graduates and lectures at the Grand Opera House. rail conductors and new restaurant plans emerge. A New York Life agent appoints Mrs. Harriet Washburn state agent. The California Ideals perform at the Corn Palace with magnetic feats and mind reading.
The report notes below normal weekly temperatures with cool nights and light to failing rains. Soil remains moist, corn and potatoes near maturity, oats and spring wheat harvest only slightly delayed in central and northern counties. Hay damage from rain, threshing ongoing in south, harvest progressing elsewhere. Potatoes good, millet strong, pasturage very good, with prospects for quality crops if frost stays away. A separate endorsement praises the Bradley X-Rays gang plow from D W Collins as easy to use with light draft.
Miss Retta Goodykoontz entertained her sister Mrs. J F Kimball of Chicago and numerous guests in Mitchell with music and refreshments from 4 to 8 on Tuesday. Wednesday featured progress ive euchre with prizes and floral table decor as guests played and enjoyed vocal and violin selections.
Roy Boggs leaves News to join Educator at Mitchell while Louis Oswald returns to typing at the News office. Wheat at 80 cents and eggs at 10 cents hint prosperity. Mitchell hunts with locals. hay and millet crops are heavy. A Sioux City excursion visits the Haynes family. Mrs. Betts visits Mitchell. A reader questions Ethan items about three youths at Alexandria.
A Berlin publication by Daniel Sanders claims the Konservations Lexikon is the world smallest book occupying six cubic centimeters and containing about 175000 words. Readers must use a microscope to read this compact work. In champagne making the grapes are pressed six times producing wines of varying quality.
In a witty exchange, Hicks reports Macklin sought help for insomnia while Dulley was summoned to his bedside last evening. Wicks counters the fear of dying, noting it is only a severe sleep disturbance.
A Detroit Free Press recounts an old vessel owner’s tale of a Friday the thirteenth voyage. The ship loaded at Grand Haven for Tonawanda with green lumber, crew of thirteen, and a green eyed cat mascot. The 13 crewmen vanished after a late harbor departure, with the ship and cargo missing at sea and no collision reported.
A hearse blocks a street streetcar and the mutoneer brakes hard as a long funeral procession passes. A fat man warns of danger and shares grisly anecdotes of those who crossed parades, while the conductor remains cautious and drives on. The account appears in the New York Telegram.
The piece traces the letter I from its Hebrew origin as jod to its development as a hand shaped symbol. It notes how fingers diminished over time until only a small dot remained, making the I and its dot symbols of insignificance.
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