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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1904
Page
9
Printer's notice lists subscription rates in vague terms with multiple time frames and prices. It appears to be a historical display from the Mitchell capital area, mentioning the editor C W Downey and varying terms for one year six months and three months.
Rates for business cards six lines or less at 86.00 per year with each extra line at 1.00. Locals 0.05 per line. Legal ads per statute. Cards of thanks ten cents per line. Marriage and death notices and obituaries five cents per line. Address changes require both old and new addresses.
Several Pierre people consider entering the Rosebud land drawing while others plan to move there for work. The piece questions paying four dollars an acre for Rosebud lands when lands nearby west of Pierre are available for fifty cents an acre.
The Pierre Capital-Journal reports a rumor that coal costs nine dollars more per ton in Pierre than Mitchell. Critics call the claim rot spread via the State Register and allege it pressures voters to favor Mitchell.
The article notes Daniel Defoe’s 1722 travels through eastern English marshlands. He records men with five to fifteen wives, and a boastful tale of about twenty wives by one man. He cites damp marsh air affecting beauty and health, with caution that informants exaggerated.
Zoologists describe a west African peri ophthalmus that leaves water for days and climbs mangrove roots. It builds mud houses above surface with long prehensile fingers and elbowed arms to propel through mud while rolling eyes scan surroundings.
The Mississippi valley yields freshwater pearls valued at millions since 1900. A Muscatine boy found a small button pearl sold for 2.16 dollars, later turning up in New York for 10 000. A blue Caney Fork pearl fetched 8 300 in London. A Blackiver Arkansas find brought 2 000. Inland Adirondack lakes may host future prized finds.
The Ringling brothers circus touts 1280 employees and fifteen acres of tents for Jerusalem and the Crusades, a vast menagerie with Baby Boo the baby elephant, giraffes and a rhinoceros, plus five long trains of 85 cars. Two shows in Mitchell are set for Saturday July 6 at 2 and 8, with doors opening an hour before. Reserved seats available at LV Gale.
The piece contrasts Freiburg to billboards in Western cities, noting a system of municipal bulletin boards. Fifty display places are placed to avoid street distraction. individuals file notices at city hall, paying 25 cents per square foot for day one and 10 cents for subsequent days with reductions for longer runs, then retrieve their poster on the way home.
Professor Ray Lankester reveals how London milliners attempt to pass genuine osprey plumes as sanitized substitutes. The Princess of Wales once led a movement to curb real plume hunting, causing a sharp drop in sales, but recent findings show some shops still peddling authentic plumes as safe fabrics.
Portuguese newspaper offices pay compositors about 40 dollars a month while editors receive no more. The editors’ work is light and they have ample time for outside employment.
In Japan the nose is the sole feature drawing notice and determining beauty or ugliness by size. The text suggests noses distinguish faces, while eyes, cheek bones, and chin are described as less defining.
The item surveys bans in Johannesburg and Glasgow on saloons, language shares in German print, coal costs and English coin disputes, auctioned almanac in Philadelphia, a 14 000 Australian birds shipment to London, a cavalry officer’s court costs, plague easing reentries in Slipspruit, and spruce gum scarcity in Maine. It also lists the Mount Vernon gift, Mosso on aging nerves, a 220 year old Oyster Bay mill, and various police, cacao, and oil pipeline facts across regions.
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