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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1889
Page
7
A brief note describes residents protesting a toy event labeled as harmful to children. Community groups oppose the gathering, citing safety concerns and disruption to local commerce. Officials urge calm while organizers defend the event as a playful celebration.
Hon Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota Farmers Alliance lecturer, defines the alliance as a national open, nonsecret farmers group not a political party. It seeks food laws and legislative action through concerted organization, warns farmers of swindles from pumps hay forks peddlers and other schemes, urging never to sign papers from strangers.
From USDA advance sheets the bulletin presents tables of average national corn prices and mean prices for hogs and beef steers in Chicago. It notes hog prices generally move with corn, but not always in same proportion, with exceptions in 1852 1887 and 1888 due to crop year versus marketing year pricing and feed mix.
An agricultural note discusses factors shaping hog and steer prices and the limited price relation due to multiple influences. It recommends corn as a minor ration for breeding swine and shares a Georgia farmer’s discovery that lucerne ensilage boosts winter hog growth without grain, with limited grain only near slaughter.
The article argues hens fail to lay due to poor winter housing and management. It urges storm proof, dry, ventilated poultry houses, tarred felting or painted coverings to deter pests, and recommends early hatchery stock and ample feed to improve winter egg production.
The American Farmer notes about 2000 poultry pens at Paris Exposition with French exhibitors dominating. Leghorns Wyandottes Plymouth Rocks and Brahmas lead among American breeds while Cochins and Langshans gain in popularity. Turkeys geese and ducks are shown, with white flesh favored by France.
A domestic health column extols lemon juice as a cure for headaches stains and sore throats and as a wholesome temperance drink. It notes lemon pulp can be eaten with skin avoided and describes the unsparing kitchen task of a diligent housekeeper and an inmate in an asylum washing a window pane.
A narrator reflects on Marion Warland once a Weel as an emblem of those whose sight narrows from persistent devotion to work. The passage notes work is valuable yet should not monopolize a person’s mental and spiritual horizon, warning of a life ruled by singular preoccupation.
Hints cover polishing tinware and class items, removing fish scales by boiling water, reviving worn green blinds with linseed oil, and warnings against coal oil lamps. Also notes using old fabrics for cleaning, grease removal tricks, felon cure via woolen smoke, and keeping cut flowers fresh by a damp towel and shallow water overnight.
An old household guide outlines tea preparation focusing on using earthenware pots not tin, boiling water, and precise tea quantity. It warns against letting tea sit in tin pots, chewing dry tea, and reboiling water to preserve flavor and avoid harmful scum.
Four eggs one and a half cups sugar one tablespoon baking powder beat whites separately then sugar with yolks until light add part of whites then a cup flour beat well then fold in rest of whites and stir gently bake spread and roll quickly.
A scanned recipe section describes Milan Cake and Doughnuts with quantities and methods, followed by Cornstarch Custard instructions. A Bee owner recalls bees attacking a man and inadvertently killing two black hens when his wife covered him with a white apron.
Washington dispatch details congressional fallout from the Silcott defalcation with calls to replace the Senate salary system, indictments and extradition prospects, and a Pan American Congress trip. It also reports potential Interior Secretary Noble retirement, a Windom silver plan defense, and looming disclosures about Jefferson Davis’s death.
Brooklyn journalist Weeks is charged with larceny after allegedly securing $1,000 from Fosdick by claiming the American Land and Colonization Co. existed. The company is said to be mythical. Other items note a Marion, Indiana glass works death, a Knox county fatality by train, a wreck near Frankfort with $20,000 loss, and an 1801 international archaeological congress planned for Christiania.
New Orleans dispatch details ex convict William Miller admitted to charity hospital after receiving 245 lashes on his bare back at Captain Shacher’s camp in Catahoula parish. Surgeons found severe lacerations from mid back to knees and required a wooden rack to protect him from sheets. Miller says other convicts also suffer brutal, inhumane treatment and notes a bitter feud at Sanchez’s camp.
South Dakota Horticultural Society to meet in Madison with about twenty five papers on forestry fruit growing and flowers. Senator Moody draws two year term while Pettigrew secures long term. Irrigation bills urged with $150000 request and experiments planned in Huron by FE T Day. Postmasters named in several counties and Sioux chiefs to meet in Washington.
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