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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
3
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley argues better domestic cooking could cut divorces by about 90 percent. He links marital stability to culinary skill, citing data on divorce rates and suggesting prevention through education in cookery rather than federal reform.
Dr Wiley argues that skilled cooking and home management reduce divorce trends. He recalls farm lectures and praises grandmothers for home training over cooking schools. He says good cooking elevates happiness, ethics, and economy, and that mastery of kitchen arts outweighs chemistry in improving family life.
Sawdust has shifted from a free city byproduct to a valued material. It is distilled into acetic acid and other chemicals, burned for fuel, or used in paper making and explosives. It replaced or supplemented materials like sand and felt, with evolving roles in gas production and briquettes.
Baroness Hengelmuller, famed for beauty and culture, is a leading social figure in Washington. Born in Galczyn Poland, she married young, later wed Mr. Hengelmuller, and accompanied him to America where he served as ambassador. They reside opposite the British embassy on Connecticut Avenue in a lavish, art-filled home valued at $800,000.
Ben Butler confronts Judge Sang er during a session, bullying and badgering the bench. The weary judge asks what the court expects him to be for, and Butler quips that the judge has him at a loss to answer. The remark captures Butler's combative stance toward the judiciary.
A quip contrasts a doctor burdening his brother with work against the idea the brother is an undertaker. The exchange ends with the punchline that the brother is not a doctor but an undertaker.
The Burden wheel in Troy New York, sixty six feet diameter and twenty two feet wide, with thirty buckets each holding a barrel, powered the Burden manufactory from 1549 until about ten years ago. Protestors aim to preserve it as a monument to inventor Burden, famed for a horsehoe machine, while a boxing lesson anecdote closes with a gag about a dry goods house.
A Thynn manufacturer recently received a large order for women's low cut shoes to be delivered about November 10. The Oxford, once a summer shoe, is gaining year round use, with many women and some men wearing low shoes in winter. Manufacturers have improved fits with special oxford lasts, making today’s oxford better than five to ten years ago.
A compact collection notes varied claims from science and history. It states sailors suffer rheumatism most, Spanish theaters lack programs, Swiss tourism earned 25 million last summer, and the US eats over 4 million pickle bottles weekly. It lists tongue size differences by sex, minimal rain in southern Egypt, wedding gifts for civil servants, a bird that cannot fly backward, dragonflies outpace swifts and fly backward, a London church income for burning heretics, and stars so distant a flight would take 500,000,000 years at 500 mph.
William C. Whitney Jr described a dinner party in New York at Quapaw restaurant where two miners argued if a pineapple is a fruit or vegetable. The waiter, in shirt sleeves, settled the dispute by declaring a pineapple is an extra.
An Atlanta Constitution snippet depicts an old Georgia man reacting to a possum as it escapes. The narrator recalls rural humor and dialect, speculating on community reactions and the possum’s perceived cleverness, ending with a humorous offer to join the man's footpath friendship.
Marjorie visits grandparents on a farm and fears a mooley cow. Her mother explains the cow cannot harm her as she has no thorns, but Marjorie worries about being butt by her ypampa dour, showing rural superstition and childlike misinterpretation of animal features.
In a Arkansas City saloon tale, Jake Winterbottom struggles with a growing inward conscience while the crew recalls Bijah Wilkins and other players. Greenhut recounts a tense poker game with Hooper Butler and Featherbow, Jake ultimately wins with a four flush and a bungstarter used to defer a possible shooting.
A Cleveland mayor cites lawyers crossing lines in Ohio court as he recalls a cross examination. An elderly witness refuses to answer yes or no, challenging the lawyer to measure if he is as big a public idol as he appears.
The ostrich business is growing in the United States led by Arizona's Salt River valley where about 1500 of 2200 birds are kept. Birds require a hot dry climate and alfalfa pasture. value sits at 800 dollars per pair when four years old. Mating begins at four, and farming is not a quick riches scheme.
Alexander Clarrison notes Europe’s artistic atmosphere is stronger for students but calls Paris overrated as a study city. He recalls a rich man’s son in Paris after three years asking his father whether he studied painting architecture or music, from St. Joseph, Missouri.
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