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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
7
Phoebe A. Reed surveys spring millinery trends with emphasis on poke shapes and conservative hats. She highlights Easter show ensembles featuring absinthe green crin hats, pale pink straw braids, and Leghorn styles with purple black pansies, noting color shifts toward blue greens and subdued brims.
A collection of humorous maxims and anecdotes from the Chicago New and Boston Journal. Includes quips on honesty, marriage, and social behavior, plus a short tale about Mme Nordica and a will contest with revivalist humor.
Paris reports a clash between Count Zeppelin and the German war department as officials reject new airship orders and plan stations suited only to smaller vessels. Meanwhile Zeppelin AG pushes ahead with regular passenger service between Lucerne and southern German destinations, aiming for spring 1910 operation. Municipalities including Cologne Dusseldorf Lucerne Stuttgart Strassburg and Geneva express support for the venture.
The report notes substantial subsidies for an airship enterprise and indicates the German war department will provide financial encouragement if the airships are classified as auxiliary cruisers on the same basis as merchant ships.
The late Robert McTurk, longtime Williams Bridge leader and treasurer of the town and sewer funds, faced a dispute over 176000 dollars missing after annexation. Comptroller Fitch doubted records but McTurk produced a draft. the comptroller insisted bondsmen were required, McTurk argued local officials are trusted.
A playful exchange mocks Temperance Gentleman and The Incorrigible with tipsy banter about teetotal limits and mock bravado. The remark that Germans are the world’s greatest chemists adds a wry global aside.
London reports Dr Herman Swoboda a Vienna physician cites his theory of critical days for men with regular bad days. He says headaches heart palpitations indigestion nervousness and lassitude recur every 28 or 56 or 74 days and extend to grief and death timing. An English specialist endorses the view and advises country retreat and meat avoidance. The article notes earth’s atmospheric depth at 120 to 200 miles.
The old clock on the stairs speaks of time and fate in a Longfellow poem. It haunts the silent mansion reflecting joys sorrow birth and death as guests depart. The timepiece proclaims forever there but never here while eternity looms beyond this life.
New York special report on a Lambs club gambol at the Metropolitan Opera House. Admission prices ranged from 1100 to 2 dollars as 150 stage celebrities and prominent figures gathered to watch De Wolf Hopper, Victor Herbert, and a cast including Raymond Hitchcock and Nat Wills. Brutus and Marc Antony were played by James O’Neil and Hopper in a Julius Caesar forum scene. The mob scene featured many supers such as Belasco, Erlanger, and Klein among others.
A creative Fourth of July game uses parchment scroll cards 8x10 inches cut from white cardboard with tricolor bows and red white blue pencils. Players answer questions about the Declaration of Independence on the scroll fronts, with prizes like a patriotic reference volume for top scores.
A boy carries a haul from a fireworks shop and medicine store as night falls in July. He bears cast iron cannon firecrackers gunpowder torpedoes and toy pistols along with roman candles and other explosives. His mother will bring home painkillers bandages ointment and salves from the drug store.
Oklahoma station tracked five hogs on five mixed rations from Feb 4 to Feb 29. Straight corn yielded total gain of 173 pounds, while mixtures with meat meal, cottonseed meal, alfalfa, and cow pea hay produced different gains and costs per 100 pounds of gain, with corn alone most costly at 8.01 dollars per 100 pounds.
James Tibbetts of Benton reports moose visiting his barnyard to drink from the farm’s water pump each morning. A bull and cow moose have appeared repeatedly, drinking water and then crossing the fence toward the woods, while the farm’s other stock are left undisturbed. The article notes the vicinity’s abundant water and puzzling moose behavior near the Tibbetts pump.
A fragmented quotation from Senator Tillman at a Washington banquet references Bill Higgins. The dialogue suggests criticism of Higgins voice and connections, mentioning his wife and mother-in-law in a guarded, anecdotal tone.
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