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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1894
Page
13
A speech argues breaking the vast private fortunes, reducing labor hours, nationalizing coal fields, and creating postal savings banks to foster mutualism and profit sharing. It cites British practice and U S firms adopting gains sharing, calling for state action to rebalance society and economy.
The body of El Repartero, killed in Madrid, arrived in Seville to a city with closed shops and a 50,000-strong cortege. The matador lies in state at the Chapel Ardante for two days as crowds follow from the railway station.
Dr W H Epworth, at Southern, debates whether death is the final act of dissolution or a prelude to the Spirit’s departure. He cites physicians’ focus on body mechanics and recounts witnesses who claim to glimpse heaven or hell at death, suggesting science has yet to lift the veil over death’s mystery.
An essay asserts Americans excel in food value and clothing. It cites caloric intake of 3500 daily for American workers versus 1790 to 1900 for Europeans, arguing nutrition supports greater productivity and vigor. It lauds bread and warns against gluttony while praising American attire based on European observations.
D W Little, an adobe farmer west of town, shot at a band of geese. A white gander he saved grew tame and followed the boys. A wild goose from the same flock later landed in the yard, triggering a lively, circus like display. The new arrival refuses to leave the tame pair and flies away when approached by the boys.
A grammar school student answered a lesson question on medieval English slaves with serfs vassals and vasaries, showing bright confidence. Separately, a Brazilian submarine cable became entangled with a whale, the creature dead from the tangle.
A dated humor item features a maid and mistress exchanging a pun about a hen and her chicks. The maid answers sixteen when asked how many chickens the hen hates shed, and the mistress grumbles that the hen cannot nurse all of them alone.
A country youth at a restaurant teases the waiter by ordering a broiled elephant. The exchange ends with the waiter sternly insisting on advance pay for elephants on toast, quoted as 1500 dollars plus 25 cents. clear tone and a playful finale with his date smiling.
The article praises affordable tea gowns made from bright summer fabrics and repurposed silks and brocades. It asserts these dresses pair two or three fabrics to create charm, offering attractive, comfortable options for women of varying figures and preferences. A pretty woman is depicted as most graceful in tea gown attire.
Progressive Danish ladies in Aisne Thane widen livelihoods with several women excelling as consulting dairy chemists. Some lead and manage schools after husbands’ deaths, with schools in the running for university eligibility. A Danish woman has become a qualified dentist.
A Detroit Free Press item quips on a boy fined $25 for hanging on a Third Avenue streetcar, while a parent’s admonition to use elegant language prompts a humorous exchange about Amendments and manners between a mother and child. The playful vignette contrasts youthful mischief with social consequences and everyday behavior.
In a heated exchange Buckton argues he will not succeed as a minister. Nendick counters with a claim of Buckton’s slight deafness as a handicap and questions his ability to hear calls to higher labor.
It argues that buyers can secure quality breeding stock close to home, offering the advantage of better opportunity to examine animals before purchase.
A New Orleans man provokes a wager in a New York uptown hotel bar by claiming he can extract drops of champagne from an empty bottle. He demonstrates how paper or thread left inside the inverted bottle slowly releases wine, illustrating a simple physics trick amid bets and curiosity. Mothers’ devotion to their growing children is described, contrasting baby dependence with later selfreliance and the bittersweet pull of watching offspring mature.
A Good Housekeeping reflection notes how Harold improves in figures at college, rising from seventh to sixteenth, and contrasts voices that soothe with those that stir up old Adam. The piece muses on manners, kitchen wisdom, and common sense shaping daily life and behavior.
A description of Nineveh and Babylon walls, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, a pyramid and the Labyrinth of Egypt, noting their vast sizes and the limits of modern machinery. The piece cites the Labyrinth’s 300 rooms and claims massive works required 350,000 workers over twenty years.
A historical note recounts Mykerinos as the builder of the third pyramid at Ghizeh and describes the fate of his headless mummy found in 1836. It mentions the British Museum storing hundreds of Egyptian mummies and the country’s long fascination with ancient wonders.
A traveler recounts easy profits in smuggling rifles from Gibraltar to inland Morocco. Smugglers use feluccas to move arms from Cape Spartel to Tangier, unloading at Tangier Bay near the custom house with porters who handle the cargo and may not betray them.
A humorous exchange from Puck shows a rejected engagement offer and a loan request. The second part notes ongoing cartographic revisions of Lake Victoria Nyanza, with explorers updating outlines from Speke to Stuhlmann and Laumann mapping a new southeastern gull.
San Francisco reports nine seamen held as government prisoners at Angel Island for over fifteen months as witnesses against the Hesper pirates St Clair Spurs and Hansen. They were uncharged bonds and released after Washington ordered payment of one dollar per day as witness fees. The same dispatch notes a depot fire at Baraboo Wisconsin destroying the Chicago and Northwestern depot at Ableman during the night.
Gold shipment valued at 2 million dollars. J R Edwards fishing schooner sent off Sable Island with all aboard. Robert Hall, founder of Brox Burn Oil Works in Scotland, dead. Mrs Samuel Raphael of Brooklyn bears four children. An explosion and fire in a New York tenement kills one child injures four. U S president approves sale act for remaining Otoe reservation lands. Germany rumored to pay 4 million francs for Turpin’s engine of warfare. Bank of Enterprise in Kansas closed with deficits. Princess Colonna and children sail to Europe aboard New York. intends six months abroad. Chauncey P Williams presumed drowned while fishing in Adirondacks. Michael Jansen aged 68 in Butte shoots wife then wounds self.
Market report from Milwaukee Minneapolis and Chicago shows wheat and oats mixed turning irregular into May 1804. corn and barley steady to dull. Cattle and hogs steady to strong in Chicago with receipts around cattle 18 500 hogs 23 500. others list prices for hogs and sheep, along with Chicago grain and provisions values for May 31 1894.
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