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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1900
Page
12
Dorothy and friends listen as Grandma recounts making and keeping a valentine. A queen of hearts envelope hides a torn keepsake from a Civil War era suitor, revealing devotion, marriage plans, and letters amid wartime sacrifice.
An elderly man in Churchtown Lancaster County Pa named Abraham Lincoln, 90, is a farmer who bears the same name as President Lincoln. He never met the President but corresponded while in the White House. Nearby historic sites trace the Lincoln and Boone ancestries through Mordecai Lincoln and the Hanks family to Nancy Hanks and the future president.
Lincoln accepted the McCormick fee and other earnings, totaling about $2,000 including a $500 retainer—the largest he ever received—along with Illinois Central Railroad pay. He preferred not to sue for fees and divided payments with half kept and half set aside in Herndon's box.
A report notes a proposed women only club in London restricting admission to those over six feet tall. It mentions matching economic and social ideas from Europe and the United States, including German locomotive output and emigration trends.
The piece cites the Pittsburg Dispatch noting that fatigue prompts stretching and yawning in humans and animals. It describes pets and wildlife from dogs and cats to birds, fish, deer, cows, and horses, linking stretching to bodily relief and potential injury signals.
Georgie recalls a chaotic scene over a colicky infant with a nurse, neighbors, and doctors debating feeding methods. The father resists medical visits and complains about trained nurses, while relatives pressure him to follow various remedies. The narration ends with a violent moment and a later attempt to calm the child. In a separate note a grocery fox’s final jump from a roof ends its life.
A garbled report hails Victor Emmanuel as a hero in an Alpine ascent. He allegedly surged ahead of companions during a vow of safety but was halted by a brawling mountaineer, yet survived the episode and is praised in a brief View.
In Italian districts the filbert crop rivals wine in commercial importance. Nuts grow on bushes planted 15 to 25 feet apart for light and air. Best in deep clay soil, planting occurs in November and December from mother-plant slips. Bushes fruit in year three and are pruned annually. some plantations are nearly a century old. Weather, not disease, is a threat, with hail and cold winds causing damage.
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