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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1899
Page
10
A man recalls a London made dress coat and a signed silk label inside the collar. A Florida tailor had replaced it with a pink tab reading Charley One-Lung, Merchant Tailor, Wayback, Fla. The incident leaves him humiliated after a casual boast at a club.
A Baltimore businessman faces a comical misadventure in New York when a friend plays a prank with his glass eye. The eye reappears after the coat is pawned for ten dollars and a day-long ordeal ends with the eye returned. Also notes on Shakespeare’s power and a tart retort about Governor Houston.
A quote from Colliers Weekly presents a sharp ethical jab about romantic devotion. It depicts Dolly’s fiancé rumored to have an affair with the Allbright girl to create a testing moment for Dolly’s relationship.
Mitchell area reports show crops in peak condition for the season with ample moisture and mild temperatures. Wheat stands three to four and a half feet tall with large plump heads, corn growing well and likely frost free, barley nearly harvested, oats thriving, and abundant prairie feed promising a strong cattle season.
An epidemic of diarrhoea is reported from Cocoanut Grove Florida with a testimonial for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy sold by L. O. Gale. Adjourned Davison County Board of Commissioners meeting plans redrawing district boundaries. Cheap excursion rate to Twin Cities offered by C M&O railroad. Mitchell post office uncalled letters list and Beggs Hair Renewer advertised.
A tour of a macabre Flower Hospital room in New York reveals ghastly decorations built from bones. The door bears a bone-lettered room name and names of Dr. Howard Meilson and Dr. Northway Meyer as demonstrators. A skull, bone carvings, and a bone-mound with a seated skeleton characterize the chilling display.
A collage of excerpts recalls the 1848 Tuileries sack with mad rioters smashing art and a sword wielding figure. Other pieces tell of Leavenworth con artists, a Khaki Reviver joke, a Hull party mishap, a pun about life’s highway, and a note on frog skin leather.
The article notes pidgin English as the main link between foreigners and Chinese in China. It cites Chester Holcombe in Real Chinaman with anecdotes about miscommunications such as a foreigner asking about two “piecey” girls and a landlord describing Kalakaua’s stay using broken phrases.
Do not discard linen trimmings from new tablecloths. Use the long threads to mend and extend the cloths life. Ironing guidance suggests folding in different ways to vary creases so wear does not occur in the same spot.
A father and son exchange a pun about where the funny bone lies. The little boy Harry explains that people laugh in their sleeves because that is where their funny bone is.
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