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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1903
Page
11
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Mild weather spurs talk of sickness while Sioux Falls prepares to host the South Dakota Press Association on January 21 and 22. Frank Kelley plans a trip across the reservation to promote stock and agriculture. Distant reports mock W J Bryan in silk headwear and debate college football championships with Vermillion, Morningside, Yankton, Wu ron, and Mitchell claimed as champions. Dee I Crawford set to announce bid for governor on December 4 in public talk in Beadle county.
Pierre Free Press discusses a bitter rift between Huron and Pierre over capital location. The Huronite critiques loyalty to Huron and material interests, referencing a past meeting before the legislature on a capital removal pact with Riefeld and Mitchell and questioning disloyalty to both towns as state politics unfold.
A journalist reports a Pierre benefactor offers to stake $10 on Mitchell achieving a state majority for capital in 1904. The bet requires writers to name ten counties that would carry Mitchell, with $10 forfeited if any county fails. The single bet is expected to stir statewide interest.
The First Assistant Postmaster General Bristow released a public report Monday, accompanied by a Roosevelt memorandum affirming that wrong will not be tolerated in the Post Office Department and promising to push cases to a swift end. Bristow began inquiries in January and has uncovered large scale frauds by officials, with much detail already aired in newspapers. The general view is that while the department’s systems are not lax, dishonest men have exploited them for personal gain.
Grover Cleveland declares to the Brooklyn Eagle editor that under no circumstances will he run for president. The statement follows long speculation about his candidacy, amidst wider party debates and shifts. The Brooklyn Eagle notes editorials withdrawing support while Parker’s nomination gains attention in the Democratic field.
L H MecKeel, popular assistant cashier of the First National Bank, married Miss Etta Ottman yesterday at the bride’s parents home in Ethan. Rev. James Crowthers officiated. The couple will reside in the former Maris home. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Ottman, was Ethan’s longtime Republican correspondent. The ceremony drew congratulations from townsfolk and former Mitchell resident MecKeel, who has many friends here.
The Spirit’s editor traveled to Mitchell on Monday evening to critique why Mitchell keeps employing tactics displeasing to Pierre and to push Clare Tinan to justify his pay. He urges action to align local decisions with broader interests. The piece accuses rival contractors of waiting on Pierre contracts to sour, fearing funds are diverted before their connections are made.
The article describes a typical Japanese house as a frame of four corner posts with a roof, often tiled or not, noting typhoon and earthquake risks. It explains one broad floor, single-entry design, sliding paper-panel doors, groove closets, bronze pull handles, and shutters along the edge of the platform.
A vast school of blackfish drove ashore at Cape Cod provoking mass excitement in November. Villagers launched boats to herd them, aided by shoaling squid and herring. In two hours the ebbing tide stranded 9% of the school, with weeks of butchering and oil extraction yielding about $25,000 from two ton fish and smaller specimens.
The article states that dogs in China are mostly despised except as workers or for cooking. It notes a black dog with yellow eyebrows is valued as a top house dog, a white dog with black eyebrows brings luck, and a black dog is seen as the king of its breed. It mentions a northern shaggy dog as a good fortune symbol and the sleeve dog as the true Chinese pet. Retrievers are uncommon and greyhounds are slow and lanky.
A Scotchman called Jemmy Strength, reputed as the last of the Stuarts, was famed for extraordinary strength. He could lift 2 twenty four pounder cannons, carry a ton and a half of hay on his back, and lift a jackass on his shoulders to walk through a tollgate.
A Kansas City Journal remark notes a letter stating George's mother broke her arm by accident. The quip jokes about ambiguity and intent, highlighting casual word choice in reporting an injury.
A humorous exchange mocks medical certainty as Terence asks for a diagnosis and the doctor oddity replies that he has not yet revealed it, joking about the cost of certainty. The quip reflects classic newspaper humor style of the era with playful mispronunciations.
Walter Wellman describes a monumental Dutch plan to shield Holland from the North Sea. The proposed 24.8 mile defense uses an immense sea dike across shallow waters, built on sand, with precise calculations, materials, and labor. The project, praised as the greatest sea embankment, would run from North Holland to Wieringen and on to Friesland, showcasing Dutch hydraulic engineering.
A vivid scene on Broadway shows a window painting titled The Day of Judgment with demon figures and Napoleon depicted among skeletons and a slain body. The work traces to Jean Cousin and later hands, linked to Dante’s Inferno, praised by New York Press as unique and shocking.
Statistics for the year ending Aug 30 show 3,991 road accidents in England and Wales, 2,991 people injured, and 411 killed. The data indicate about 70.75 accidents per week, 57.52 injuries, and 7.9 deaths weekly. Over twelve months eight railway passenger and staff deaths occurred from rail accidents, with injuries noted.
Two hundred thirty observations over eighty nights tested longitude difference between Greenwich and Paris. Observations were made simultaneously at both sites with frequent instrument interchange to ensure comparability. Results show both meridians to be erroneous by a small fraction of a second.
A renowned Avan- Me steamship surgeon, aged seventy seven, has crossed the Atlantic 304 times and hopes to reach 900 voyages. He loves the sea and wishes to draw his last breath afloat and be buried beneath the waves, a true Ancient Mariner.
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