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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1905
Page
10
Mrs. Chas Palmer visits Yankton. several residents return from travels. Local events include weddings, moves, a firemen dance, a boy born, a death, legal action against Capital City Telephone Co, and sheriffs pursuing horse thieves amid a cold snap and midwinter activities across Yankton and nearby towns.
A pedowist explains that flash heat from a lightning bolt into sand creates a glass tube or fulgurite by melting silica as the current travels. Such tubes vary in interior diameter from the width of a quill to three finches or more and may extend through the sand for nearly thirty feet.
Texarkana Courier asks a star mathematician to compare Texas square miles and world population. If all people lived in Texas and land divided per capita, the farm size for a man with a wife and two children would be more than half an acre.
In a satirical gloss from Brooklyn Life a mock inquest declares the cause of death to be a health food shock after midnight, reflecting a witty fatalism about fragile vitality. A spoof court scene ends with a dismissive lawyer gag over a daughter’s marriage suit.
Clara questions a lasting engagement to Douglas while Gertrude asserts it seems certain yet fears marriage may be impossible. The exchange hints at confidence and unease about a future union.
A quotation from John Oliver Hobbes in the London Mail argues that cheap things or people are often bad and in the long run ruinous, even at any price.
A proverb-like note from the Atchisop Globe reflects on luck's irregular cadence, sometimes remedying imbalances slowly and unevenly.
Mrs. Margaret Hague died at her daughter Mrs. James Murphy’s home in Mitchell at 11:30 PM after Bright's disease. She was 82, born in York shire England, lived in Canada and Detroit before coming to Mitchell two weeks ago as a nurse. Survived by daughters Mrs. James Murphy and Mrs. Fred Roberts and son Fred Hague. Funeral held Saturday at 2:60 PM conducted by Rev. Chas. H. Powell. burial in Graceland cemetery.
A Washington Star report recounts a prominent Episcopal missionary bishop entertaining Eskimo youths with devices and tricks to aid preaching. Yet the natives respond mainly to canned meat and vegetables, and when a talking machine in Eskimo tongue plays, a child laughs, calling him the canned white man.
A traveler notes hyenas as a major African pest and contrasts them with lions and leopards. He says hyena skins have little value, making chasing them unattractive, while they terrify settlers by nightly howls and bold raids into camps, stealing items from huts and compounds.
The text cites Archbishop Ussher dating Noahs departure to Nov 16 2348 B C and reports Sir Walter Raleigh's tally of 89 beast species with space estimates. He argues one elephant needs four beeves, a lion two wolves, yielding room for 91 to 120 beeves and dozens of sheep wolves and humans, with separate rooms for meat birds and survivors.
The text argues that serenity of temper is a key mental health sign and helps bear life’s petty trials. It notes the value of not hearing provocation from frascible people, reminding that such individuals are their own worst enemies. Cultivating equanimity is presented as worthwhile.
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