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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1885
Page
2
A survey of riding bonnets, millinery accessories, and dress garniture outlines rich silk-embroidered pieces, frise ribbons, and jeweled trimmings. It details riding bonnets in satin and plush, vivid color palettes, new scarves, and wraps, with notes on hats, hair, and the season’s wool fabrics and decorative buttons.
A Brooklyn Union report recounts how druggists correct physician prescription errors and the tension with doctors over dosage, including quinine, phosphorus, aconite, belladonna, and strychnia mixups, and the need for more physician accountability. A second note, from Harper's Editors Drawer, adds a Virginia rail tale about Venus mistaken for a headlight and other lighthearted dispatches.
The Public Administrator of New York City recalls curious cases of heirs untraceable at death and surprising recoveries including a missing $6,000 found on a coffin and validated after disinfection. The column then switches to notes from Sunflowers and a Dakota Farmer correspondent praising briquettes and oil seeds. It ends with observations on room in the world and a remark on youth and vanity.
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