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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1892
Page
2
Mitchell Printing Co. of Mitchell, South Dakota, appears in The Weekly Capital column listing printing services available to local customers.
A Lady's Pictorial essay warns modern mothers over anxious childrearing and public appearances. It contrasts past child discipline with today's "nerves" culture and cites fashion measures from Venus de Medici to cloak models, noting wide hips and slim waists as feminine ideals.
Harper’s Magazine editor Charles Dudley Warner offers a concise view: tallness is fashion, not a needful trait, with past fashion favoring petite and arch figures. He notes no bias toward height, acknowledging varied tastes and the period’s spirit, while urging the Drawer chronicles rather than prescribes.
The chrysanthemum vase rises tall on the floor as a centerpiece for the chrysanthemum craze. Long stemmed blooms fill the vast vessel, with a dozen flowers shown proudly surrounded by leaves to create an elegant display.
The Paris School of Pharmacy student Leclerc has earned a first class degree and will become Paris first woman chemist. A French national, she trails a Toulouse based female chemist in France. She must serve three years as an assistant before practicing independently.
A Southern exchange laments many vagrants roaming the South. they suggest the surplus of jobs in the North draws tramps away. The remark implies economic contrasts between regions and hints at migration driven by work availability.
The State Board bulletin summarizes expert testimony in the Peoria actinomycosis case filed by J. B. Greenhut and others. Experts from Lincoln Web, Minnesota, Chicago and Peoria testified the disease is contagious and often fatal, and that meat from affected animals is unsafe for human consumption due to infection risk and widespread internal involvement.
A lurid tale on Wall Street fears a wave of baby abandonment following the Russell Sage office explosion. Capitalists mock a “baby-leaver” successor to bomb-thrower amid talk of baby proof safes and private asylums as Mrs Gould may care for foundling waifs.
Royal match moves closer as Queen Victoria reportedly withdraws opposition and final consent is given during the Teck visit. Princess Mary, noted as pretty and engaging, is linked with Prince Albert of Clarence in this period gossip and royal court commentary. A baker tests bread rising by gradual oven warming. A Boston train mishap ends with nine barefooted passengers after sleeping car porter loses shoes. Waterloo relics yield bullets and buttons sold to travelers. A miniature hammock for mothers and nurses, hanging from the neck, enables hands-free baby carrying.
A sailor named Kelly sneaked onto Acre's ramparts during a ferocious siege to bury a French officer left exposed between walls and trenches. With hostile muskets aimed, he dug a grave, chalked a memorial "Here you lie, Old Crop," and returned to his post, claiming “God was with me.”
The article surveys high altitude observatories in France Scotland Austria and the United States highlighting Pike's Peak Mount Washington and Mont Blanc. It explains why mountain stations yield clearer weather data than lowlands and notes the challenges of severe winters and the use of telegraphing instruments for automatic records.
Two youths near Los Angeles grow rich by killing coyotes. Last April they had little credit, now they hold about 3700 dollars in bank and add roughly 150 dollars weekly. They say trapping coyotes at five dollars per scale pays more than farming. A wise man thinks before he speaks, a fool speaks and then thinks.
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