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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
4
The article explains how a nonswimmer can handle a life buoy without sinking. It advises gripping the buoy with both hands near the body to press it downward and away, allowing the far end to rise and fall over the head, enabling the arms to pass through.
A historic note on the thermometer from 1797 and its bedside use by De Haen, then tracing Santorius and Soerhave, with a digression on Hugo’s error about the Firth of Forth. It ends with Professor Kretschmar proposing a bird shaped hull to cut wave resistance and boost ship speed.
The Driving Park Association opened with delays but a good crowd and fast races. E E Gregory of Madison led as starter while judges and timekeepers included Mathieson Hahn and Hatch. Wyzele trained by M F Coonan led the 2:22 pace with Joe Bush and Lillian C finishing strong. Joe Bush dominated the next heats, time 2 24 and 2 23. Lo, owned by H Legget, won the 2 35 trot in three heats with Laura Mack and Hortense following. Assessor won the five furlong dash with Lady Chatham second. George D Cole started as starter for Wednesday’s program.
The Gosthe Webber match race pitted M. H. Gosche against Samuel Webber with $100 a side. Both claimed fastest horse, riding 450 pound buggies. Gosche led in heat one, Webber took heat two before Gosche reclaimed the lead. Final times 1:50 and 1:39. Six horses entered. Beauty Book won both heats with Lady Chatham second and Greenwich third. Ed Crawford rode Greenwich. H. G. Nichols was starter.
Wednesday saw a decent turnout for races with tamer results as horses were poorly matched. In the three year old trotter pace McMaster's Miss Somaz won in straight heats with a best time of 2 374, Bell McGregor placed second and Bobby Gorde third.
Editor notes a roaming dog blamed for attacks across Elliott and Bleadon townships in Sanborn County. The creature reportedly visited John Lawrence, Jason Powell, Anschutz, Ben Hanson, and Hull areas, chasing or fighting other dogs. Owners are urged to watch their dogs. Powell shot his dog last Thursday and Friday. Blendon, June 1.
Notice seeks information leading to recovery of a light bay horse about 1350 pounds three years old. Left front and hind feet have white markings with a slight dip in front. Reward of 25 dollars offered. Contact H Hannemann at Letcher South Dakota.
Community diary items record farming routine with plowing planting and replanting. Names include E V Green H I Stevens A A Jenks and others visiting relatives and selling livestock. Creamery pay 29 cents per pound and local home improvements noted including a new addition and blacksmithing.
A sleep fantasy from F. Marion Crawford's Cecelia explores dream logic where reality inverts, inanimate objects animate, and a hunting ride through drawing rooms leads to trees turning into people who laugh as one arrives at a ball in scant attire. The passage questions if dreaming mirrors insanity.
The text recounts John Ash ton’s Curios creatures of Zoology and Stow’s monkfish tale. It notes the monkfish or sea monk as a feared sea monster once common in the North Sea and British Channel, said to have gone extinct by 1414 due to a plague. A 1187 sighting describes a manlike creature kept in Oxford Castle, craving raw meat and fish, then vanishing at sea.
Italian soldiers perform a gymnastic feat after regular drill that involves piercing a target with a sword while in an abnormal position. Foreigners often mistake it for standard drill, though it is mainly a pastime developed over years of practice with months needed to master the technique.
A description of a rare stone praised for its flexibility, likened to wood fiber. The lathlike specimen, about an inch thick and two feet long, hails from near Delhi and is held in the Hartley Institution in Southampton. It remains hard and mineral like with a gray sandstone grain.
An early warning on saccharin notes its strength in pure form. One part can sweeten 10 000 parts water, but in excess it can paralyze taste nerves as powerful stimuli stun hearing or vision.
A Brooklyn Eagle cartoon caption notes a poker tale where Bill suffers a heart failure after drawing a spade while holding four hearts. The quip relies on a pun about ironies of a card game ending in an unexpected suit turn.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Mabel's success in reforming the dissolute Flutterby after his uncle's death left him half a million. The item points to her satisfaction with the match and its impressive fortune in inheritance.
Lord Randolph Churchill toured South Africa's diamond fields and quipped about the vanity of woman amid vast stones. A listener added a remark on man’s depravity as historical note recalls the first American newspaper Public Occurrences debuting in Boston in 1690.
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