Mitchell Capital promotes local circulation drive
The Mitchell Capital announces expansion to ten pages and a county wide push to gain subscribers. K Costes will visit ships in Davison county to introduce the paper, highlighting county news and official minutes from the board of county commissioners. Subscription is one dollar in advance, 1.50 yearly.
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Board of Ty Commissioners
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Lee's Exposition Committee Meets in Sioux City
The Lee's Exposition Committee for South Dakota meets in Omaha area to organize the state exhibit at next summer's exposition. Governor Lee has urged funds, with Clay county already contributing 500 dollars, to ensure a prominent presence. Members include Hiram Rodee Forestburg S Wurregang Aberdeen M P Beebe Mitchell John Hayes Pierre O H Oxoboj C A Jewett Sioux Falls Hugh Smith Howard Hans Boy Elk Point. The group plans a daytime and evening session to set methods and raise the necessary funds.
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Mitchell
Bovernor Lee
South Dakota
Omaha Exposition
Clay
South Dak
An Ful
Hiram Rodee
Forestburg
S. Wurregang
Aberdeen
M. P. Beebe
Ich
John Hayes
Fr. Pierre
O. H N. Oxoboj
C. A. Jewett
Sioux
Hugh Smith
Howard
Hans. Boy
Elk Point
Roor
Ommittes
Weather of a Week Temperature Report
Government local station report for the week ending February 28 shows observed temperatures with figures indicating zero. Public notice notes carriage buyers are invited to request a free catalogue from Elkhart Carriage Faces Co. in Elkhart Indiana.
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Erver Huyck
Elkhart
Mig. Co
Elkhart, Ind
Judges on Horseback in Old Britain Custom Revealed
The Gantenace Magazine notes that English judges and sergeants rode to Westminster Hall on horseback with a liveried retinue, a practice evolving from mule travel by mid 16th century. Sergent Whiddon reportedly started horseback riding in 1553, with processions sometimes led by the lord chancellor and state officers plus nobility. Authority and precedence among the king's sergeants vs a queen's counsel are outlined, including shifts in seniority from 1623 to 1814 and the distinction between patent and writ-based ranks.
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Great Britain
Westminster Hall
Gantenace Magazine
Sergeant Whiddon
Common Pleas
Bar
Bacon
Queen’s Counsel
Absent minded historian and father of twelve
A London Telegraph piece portrays Prof. Theodore Mommsen as modest and punctual, yet famously absent minded. The German scholar, celebrating his 80th birthday on November 30, is described as loving family times, down to breakfast with wife and five daughters, and often chiding late risers. Needing to recall his own son’s name, he reportedly asked for it on a tram trip and once hid a crying infant in a waste paper basket. Despite quirks, he remains devoted to children and nurtures a growing younger generation.
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Theodore Mommsen
London Telegraph
Charlottenburg
Saffron’s Price Prompting Adulteration and Uses
A historical note on saffron recounts its high cost of 56 shillings per pound as central parts of crocus flowers, requiring 70,000 blooms per pound. It covers English cultivation limits, foreign soil advantages, and cheaper labor abroad, its medical use waning while dyeing and flavoring remain common. Adulteration arises from dyed parts of other flowers mixed with genuine saffron.
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Chambers’ Journal
Saffron-Walden
Weighed and Found Wanting Mystery Phrase Story
A humorous exchange references the origin of the phrase weighed and found wanting. Papa admits no memory of the inventor’s name, joking that it was likely a fellow who overvalued his goods after bringing them home from the grocery.
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Robert
Papa
Chapel pre fight prayer for famed torero Espartero
An illustrated tale describes a bullfighter in a chapel before a fight praying for courage and life as Manuel Garcia known as Espartero, Spain’s leading espada, contemplates risking his life to kill the bull and aging wealth.
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Illustrated American
Manuel Garcia
Espartero
Spain
The Duke and the Lion House on the Thames
The piece recalls how Lion House near Brentford, once owned by the Percys after Henry VIII dissolved monasteries, passed to the Earl of Northumberland. Nunnery sisters emigrated, later founded a Lisbon Lion. A later Duke of Northumberland visited the sisters, who guard relics, including keys to their Thames home, hoping to return, though locks have changed.
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Lion House
Thames
Brentford
Percy
Henry VIII
Camacho
Sion
Earl of Northumberland
Lisbon
Harly
Duke of Northumberland
Preferred the Profession. A Galway landlady and a tenant
A Manchester Guardian writer recalls a Galway County case where a tenant farmer groans about rent abatement. He quips that if he had his time again he would choose a learned profession. The proprietress replies that all professions have losses and gains. The farmer retorts that lawyers are paid either way, doctors are paid to heal or harm, and priests are paid whether heaven or hell.
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Manchester Guardian
County
Galway
St. Patrick
Heaven
Hell
Genuineness of Egyptian Mummy Confirmed by X Rays
In Vienna a museum tested a so called daughter of the Pharaohs with Roentgen rays. The scan revealed amulets tucked beneath folded wraps, proving the mummy to be genuine and dispelling doubts about a Birmingham manufactured fraud.
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Vienna
Birmingham
Burglar Breaks Into Belleville Home and Prepares Breakfast
A burglar entered the Belleville New Jersey residence of John Hughes, cooked a porterhouse steak and warmed potatoes for breakfast, then touched Mrs Hughes' young daughter in the dark before fleeing.
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John Hughes
Belleville
N. J
Phonographic Factory Planned for Muskegon
Chicago capitalists plan a Muskegon phonograph factory with $100000 capital. Philip D. Armour is listed as a principal investor.
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Phonographic
Muskegon
Chicago
Mich
Philip D. Armour
Thriving Southern Cottonseed Industry
The southern cottonseed sector employs 10,000 people across 300 mills with capitalization over 50 million dollars. Annual product value stands at 113 million dollars, highlighting strong regional industry growth and economic impact.
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South
Sight Seeing in Delhi by a Visitor From a Day of Delhi Exploration
A reader recounts a Sunday sight-seeing excursion in Delhi visiting Jama Masjid with two 130 foot minarets and panoramic city ruins. He notes relics of Mohammed, the Peacock Throne site, and the Pearl Mosque comparing Delhi’s sites to Agra Fort with figures on historic plunder.
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Delhi
Jama Masjid
Jumna
Feroz Shah
Humaion
Mohammed
Agra
Nadir Shah
Japanese Students in America Elevating Japan's Education
The Chautauquan notes that five Japanese alumni hold California diplomas in civil engineering social science and zoology. Currently fifteen students study in California universities with six in social science three in electrical science two in mechanics and one each in medicine dentistry chemistry and political economy. Some plan postgraduate study at Johns Hopkins Yale and Cornell then possibly Europe before returning to Japan with honors to enlighten their homeland.
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America
United States
California
Japan
Stanford
University of California
Johns Hopkins
Yale
Cornell
Europe
Cent Pieces and Copper Coinage Profits
The Philadelphia mint continually produces cents with copper, zinc, and tin. Pennsylvania alone used 11,000,000 last year and New York 9,000,000. The final fate of these cents remains a mystery, likened to the puzzling dispersal of pins. The government profits by converting copper costing 10 cents a pound into a form valued at $2 or more per pound.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New York
Air tight hatches to prevent ship sinks proposal
A proposal suggests building hatches to be fixed from below to create an air tight hold. This would allow air pressure to help buoy a leaking ship and enable pumping air to expel water down to the leak level, improving afloat chances when hulls are breached.
Where Manna Is Found in Warm Regions
In Australia tropical Asia and Africa true manna is found on a blue grass. It forms in masses as large as a marble on stem nodes. It is mainly mannite a sweet substance but not sugar. The manna contains a ferment capable of decomposing cane sugar without producing carbonic acid or any gas.
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Australia
Asia
Africa
Flogging in Russia by Machines
A Russian inventor claims to have perfected a machine that administers flogging, promising to save the arm from blows. Under this flagellation by machines taxes and arrears are to be collected swiftly, as the device supposedly enforces routine penalties.
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Russia
Stampede of 1000 Strangers Fleeing Dawson Toward Dyea
From the Kiondike the report says 1000 men fled to force through mountains toward Dyea in a bid to escape starvation. About a quarter may die in the perilous trek as authorities monitor the dangerous march.
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Dawson
Dyea
Milton's Mulberry Tree at Cambridge Brought Low Yet Propped
Historic mulberry tree in Christs College Cambridge, linked to Milton and his 1624 admission, now decayed and propped with wooden supports and sheet lead. The tree remains a visitor landmark, once hosting a mistletoe growth and linked to Miltons Ode On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Lycidas.
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Christs College, Cambridge
Milton
Lloyd's Weekly
John Milton
London
Gill
St. Paul’s School
Chappell
Cambridge
Edward King
Johnson
Deserton by Wild Pigeons in Ozark Roosts Dwindles
The Kansas City Star notes wild pigeons no longer visit southwest Missouri with mast season returning. Decades ago Ozark woods hosted vast roosts from October to January near Springfield near Hopewell church south of James River. Millions gathered, hunters killed thousands, hogs fed, and other wildlife feasted on wreckage.
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Kansas City Star
Missouri
Ozark
Springfield
Hopewell Church
James River
Buckskin letter found in century-old tree
W R Beatty found a faded letter inside a tree dated about 150 years old near Sciotoville. The note, written long ago, likely placed a century ago in a hollow used as a pioneer post office along the Little Scioto trail from the Ohio River to Chillicothe. The discovery links to early frontier communications.
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W. R. Beatty
Sciotoville
Scioto
Ohio River
Chillicothe
Plioneers
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Belief in Ghosts Provokes Class Debate
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt a teacher notes Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley explore ghosts. A vehement student dismisses Shakespeare's belief, claiming superiority in knowledge over the famed writer. The exchange highlights modern skepticism toward supernatural themes.
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Addison
Roger de Coverley
Shakespeare
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Highest Chimney in America at Grant Smelter
The Grant smelter in Denver Colorado houses the tallest chimney in the United States standing 325 feet high. The structure cost $50,000 to construct and dominates the skyline.
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America
Grant Smelter
Denver
Col
Burning Question Teases Ancient Pun in Class Debate
A teacher and pupil exchange a paradoxical line about heaping coals of fire on a head, with the pupil quipping roasting him. The brief exchange frames a curious moral metaphor in a classroom讨论.
Clever Lady Outsmarts Clerks In Old Confidence Trick
A Louisville Commercial tale describes a woman who buys a tablecloth for 2.50 after convincing clerks she can beat the price elsewhere. She then returns to the original store to claim credit, effectively stealing the cloth via a staged double purchase. The account highlights female ingenuity in a common confidence game and its impact on merchants.
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Louisville
Market Street
Unusual Book Titles Mock Copyright Office Oddities
A journalist visits a library to copyright a humorous brochure and is redirected by a clerk who shares a folded list of mock book titles from various sources. The list includes joking titles by Lord Bacon, Joshua Sylvester, and others, ending with a request for fifty cents before the incident closes.
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Young
Washington Star
Tom Hood
Duke of Devonshire
McAdams
Rhodes
Boyle
Pygmalion
Lord Bacon
Jupiter
Percy Vere
Cook
Kosciusko
Lamb
Suett
Cromwell
Mount Helicon
Joshua Sylvester
Prolonged Emaciation Joke Cited by New York Press
A witty exchange from the New York Press features a professor asking for a cure for prolonged emaciation and a medical student suggesting air time. The student quips that the patient will come down plump, implying weight gain from exposure.
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New York
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