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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
11
A Denver Presbyterian meeting bans smoking by clergy and laity with advisory tone. The writer recalls boyhood church smoking and notes lack of penalties, predicting continued smoking away from view. The piece contrasts strict ban with unresolved enforcement and laments nicotine's grip on men.
A fragmented line suggests brethren omitting the penalty and a sense the session grew long. The text hints at moral or disciplinary themes within a religious gathering and notes a delay between snigkes.
A Stratford Courant summary notes May as a strong week for the US treasury with daily surpluses totaling 407 808 68 on Sunday and 281 651 17 on Saturday and a May disbursement total of 55 786 000. It cites 27 872 095 44 from customs in four weeks versus 19 295 020 01 from internal taxes and 6 165 186 89 from other sources. The piece highlights rising imports, a 5 600 000 gain over 1905, and questions where new revenue will come from given soaring ordinary expenditures and planned public works projects.
Over 3,000,000 wall-eyed pike from nine US fisheries hatcheries released into Susquehanna River at Rockville Penn. Mrs Collis P Huntington donates Broadway and 156th Street land to American Geographical Society for a new building. Major Albert H Johnson, once secretary to Edwin M Stanton, dies at 82. Nine pews fetch high price at St John’s Church in Washington. President Cyrus Northrop of Minnesota entertains sprinter claims. Illinois Homeopathic doctors push tonsil removal for TB risk. New York jury convicts Charles Bowser of first degree murder in about a month of proceedings. The New York criminal courts function efficiently.
A Chicago building plan boasts a fourteen story structure on West One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street with a 147 year lease. The $2,400,000 project aims for completion by October 1 and signals a major urban development trend in sharing long term property ties.
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