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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
7
Local notes recount New Year visits and dinners across Perry township and Mitchell. Residents greet relatives in Letcher and Lane, while several families report illnesses and caretaking. Social events include a New Year’s dinner hosted by A Darmer with a large guest list and a wedding for Warney West and Etta Smith.
Prosper January 3. School children and teachers returned to work. The Starr Literary Society of Petersonville school plans an entertainment and basket social on Saturday evening February 23. The Daling brothers will attend D W U this winter. The Hope Chapel basket social was a success. Emily and Myrtle Wittstruck spent vacation at home. Gertrude and Carl Hoffmar enjoyed the skating party at Mr Darling's pond.
Ethan reports Oathout came back from the State Educational Association in Sioux Falls accompanied by Miss Waugh who will visit her sister Mrs S Oathout. Mrs A M Pierce returns from Monticello Illinois after her mother's illness. Art Pierce hunted mules west of Murdo ten days. Masons lay the foundation for M A Bracha's new home. Jessie Shipton visits Mitchell friends. Edith Trow set type two days in the Enterprise office.
John Cook started for Oklahoma City likely staying through winter. George Bunnell went to Lyman County. Miss Myrtle Homer visiting Eli Point friends. Emma and Agnes Tobey among attendees of New Year’s Ball canceled by storm. S J Wilson expected home from Huron. Mrs J W Tyler improving after erysipelas. D W U student preached at Methodist church on Temperance. Schools set to open Monday January. Sleighing to follow for winter leisure. Mrs M W Cathout to Mitchell to visit children. Frank Young went to Epiphany. Lambert Laurie’s family spent New Year at Mrs Gammell’s. buggy tongue broke in snow near town.
Riverside remarks on New Year activities include visits by Mrs A H Lambert and Ethel Wallis from Mitchell, a mas querade at the M B A hall, school resuming after vacation, and a New Year’s Eve surprise party at the Knupp home hosted by Misses Wallis and Mrs Knupp. New officers were elected for the Sunday school led by J F Wallis.
The piece traces a seasonal courtship pattern in Baltimore from October evenings through winter halts, January precursors, February advances, and March plans. It notes financial strains in May and June dating rituals, ending with a cultural flourish referencing music and travel.
A long list of historical notes covers topics from candle production in the United States in 1905 to names and titles in Europe, discoveries of Napoleonic era skeletons, a Russian barony linked to Catherine the Great, and early railway ventures in Indian Territory. Also mentioned are otter and moose specimen notes, denaturation plans for olive oil, New Zealand briquettes, and Egypt’s agricultural growth tied to Nile management and rail transport.
A young man helps a poor woman on a excursion train by swapping his ticket for hers to avoid arrest. He deceives the brakeman and conductor with a torn corner piece, claiming it matches the ticket. The conductor validates the ruse, and they leave arguing over the puzzle of the fit.
A New York editor recalls Hall Caine advocating lowering book prices to fifty cents in London to outpace rising publishing costs. The tale compares publishers to druggists and a 3 cent profit in a penny-pinching exchange. General Shafter derides fat soldiers, boasting his own 200 plus pounds and joking about discipline.
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An army of men will begin work to redirect the Colorado river after flooding 300 square miles and washing out 200 miles of railroad tracks. The Salton salt farm in the Salton Sea area was ruined, endangering the Salton town and desert industry. Secretary Root asked Spain to search for the two missing ships, per Representative Brooks.
Seventy lines note Colorado plans a September observance of the Pike’s Peak discovery centennial. President Roosevelt and cabinet members are guests as the state marks the one hundredth anniversary of Lieutenant Zebulon Pike’s ascent. Missing maps and manuscripts, seized in 1807, may have been sent to Santa Fe, Madrid, and the viceroy in Mexico City.
Last year fires burned 150000 acres in this country though less than half of the prior year. The U S forest service patrol improves efficiency though its jurisdiction is national reservations. Foresters teach owners to keep underbrush cleared since most fires start there. A brush free wood has little kindling for a fire to start.
Ernest C. Rowe notes fruit markets in the year ending June 30 1905. American farmers earned 83 751 840 dollars from orchard products sold in markets. Grapes totaled 1 500 000 000 pounds and added over 15 million dollars to vineyardists. Subtropical fruits yielded about 10 million dollars. Imports from the West Indies and southern Europe reached 25 million dollars in tropical fruits.
A San Francisco Call report notes the division of large Sacramento Valley landholdings into small farms coinciding with major irrigation projects. The expansion signals a statewide development surge with significance beyond the valley, especially for San Francisco.
The piece notes humorous misrenderings by early translators such as Victor Hugo translating the Firth of Forth as the First of the Fourth and Disraeli’s amused mistranslations like woebegone as douleur wellava ten. It cites examples from Scott and other works showing playful distortions and misinterpretations.
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