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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1894
Page
3
A child friendly column offers a playful caller themed around a spotted fur visitor and a snowy King Winter, plus easy arts and crafts ideas. It describes an old painting technique using nitre, plant leaves and printed impressions, warns about handling chemicals, and suggests horse chestnut crafts including whistles and a jack o lantern prop.
The article profiles Capt. Edward A. Von Sehmidt a 6 feet 3 inch 800 pound naked man who has directed ferry boats ships and crafts in the Oakland estuary for twenty years. Backed by the War Department he oversees the government dressing of the Oakland ship canal.
A practical lemon squeezer fits over two glasses or a plate to extract all juice by pressing one half on a cone and twisting. It funnels juice into the glass while pulp is kept out, and inverted use pours liquid drop by drop for mixed drinks or extracting herb flavors.
National Museum at Chicago exhibitis models showing house evolution across climates and regions. From tropical shade structures to Arctic burrows, Eskimo igloos, cave dwellings, plank houses of Sierra Madre, lake dwellings of Switzerland, and Indian stilts, the display links dwellings to environment and safety.
A Wilkes-Barre man driven to drink by craving for rum emptied his late wife’s first husband’s ashes from a silver urn and sold them to obtain liquor, exhausting his resources in the act.
The article recalls the Czar’s illness and the hope he might recover on Corfu, a Greek Ionian island with a 2271 square mile area and a history of rule by Romans, Venetians, and others before joining Greece in 1864. It notes Corfu’s capital, Chilleion palace, and the Empress of Austria’s Corfu residence.
The olive tree, native to Greece, has naturalized in France, Italy, and Spain where it has long been cultivated for its fruit. In the Vale of Marmora near Ferni a two mile plantation of ancient trees is believed to be the same mentioned by Pliny in the first century.
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