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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
7
Dr Withrow explains how brain hemispheres command limbs. If the speech center on the left is damaged, the right side slowly learns to issue orders and speech can recover over years, often causing left handedness as transmission favors the left. He notes experiences of déjà vu-like misperceptions when one side lags behind the other.
A collage of comic snippets from Philadelphia Ledger Indianapolis Sun and Boston Transcript recounts gossip about wreck nerves love snubs and journalistic bragging. Includes a quip about a cook too nervous to travel and a playful mock interview about Crimson Gulch editor candidates.
The passage notes that Japanese tastes include viewing seasonal scenery and attending social events, with mushroom painting and refined domestic arts popular. It describes the tea ceremony as the most pretentious entertainment, highly formal and hard for foreigners to understand, as cited by Good Housekeeping.
A physician notes chewing gum after meals can help slow eaters digest by stimulating jaw movement and gastric juices. He warns many people overdo it, gnawing until saliva dries up, causing headaches and nervousness and possible indigestion.
The Virginia plover performs a remarkable migratory feat leaving northern North America and crossing the Atlantic to Brazil in a single unbroken 15 hour flight. It covers about 3,200 miles at roughly four miles per minute, starting 400 to 500 miles east of Bermuda.
A sharp exchange unfolds with a pretty cash girl refusing marriage, declaring she would not marry the man even if he were the last on earth. The mortified bookkeeper protests that her words are plain but not proper English, highlighting a clash of tone and manners.
A concise quotation contrasts how a light supper good sleep and fine morning can turn a man into a hero, while indigestion a restless night and a rainy morning would render him a coward, illustrating how mood and conditions influence bravery.
A terse exchange where a schoolmistress questions who prompted Johnnie and he replies that it was history repeating itself, implying a familiar pattern or reminder of past events.
Humorous snippets from old papers show a barber quip about hair parts and a rude customer. A banker’s clerk lesson ends with a boy’s remark on a pamphlet purchase and a nickel for books, noting their small size yet surprising value.
The piece urges hostess etiquette with party calls and bread and butter letters as essential social courtesies. It recounts a refused invitation and stresses timely guest updates to hosts. A Dur ham cathedral knocker, once part of sanctuary lore, is described along with its keeper and a monk overseeing safe entry.
A Philadelphia Inquirer quote argues today’s youth lack resilience and seek instant capital. It contrasts self pampering with past frugality, noting grandfathers’ wardrobes, Ben Franklin’s example, and the pressure of society’s finicky standards on employment.
A Sanborn era notice blends notes on Blue Mountain tea made from goldenrod leaves with a strange premonition story from Salisbury Sun about J. S. Marable who died recently. The piece also reports Curie’s radium finding that heat emission increases near absolute zero, contradicting expectations.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat recounts a widow who had her late husband’s body exhumed and reburied miles away at a cost of about 75 dollars after the big world’s fair. She then sold the cemetery lot for 600 dollars and enjoyed the proceeds.
A reflective passage urges observing living creatures rather than harming them. It describes watching a snake and other woodland beings through hidden passages and tunnels, imagining a day of discovery that softens fear into tenderness for small life.
The Sakais, tree dwellers of the Malay peninsula, construct houses high in forked trees reached by bamboo ladders. Their bamboo shacks are bound to branches with rattan and lack religion, idols, a written language, and use a corrupt Malay speech. They are small in stature and lighter in complexion than Malays, though described as unattractive.
The heloderm, a venomous lizard in Central America’s warm zone, secretes poisonous saliva and can roll onto its back when struck. Its bite is not always deadly, though pain is severe and healing may be rapid. Saliva varies in potency, coagulates blood, and alters nerve irritability.
Senator Sorghum says ideals of statesmanship rose while monetary thresholds grew. Quote contrasts past $500 as big money with current minimums near $10,000 for those who matter, reflecting fiscal expectations in politics. Washington Star source noted.
A fragmentary clipping contrasts a mule anecdote with a Brook Adams quoted passage on war and fate. It traces how conquest and conflict shaped nations from early settlers, through 1812, to the Mexican and Spanish eras, arguing history runs in blood and birds no exemption from life and struggle. The piece closes with a hopeful, sunlit exhortation to stay cheerful.
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