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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
12
Mitchell local notices report births, weddings, travel, and community events. Ad mentions and census figures show 1100 school age children, with growth noted. a Milwaukee excursion to Spirit Lake drew 35 tickets. Bank burglars convicted at Gann Valley. court in Chamberlain handles cattle cases in Lyman county.
uN Lloyd McKeel will take a bookkeeper post at First National bank Myr. Mrs J E Wells and Earl went to Big Stone Lake for a week plus. Miss Cora Miner leaves for Gettysburg to teach at Potter county institute. Various residents arrive from Sioux City Pekin and Westfield for visits, school events, and business. Weather, transport, and civic notes fill the town page.
An authority on mental subjects notes that during sleep the mind gains a new control and can vividly construct and recall complex dreams. He describes a dream of a medieval house with accurate details of dress armor and objects, suggesting quick, faithful mental construction that would take hours awake.
A gallery of memory feats lists Milton who could repeat Homer, Professor Lawson who recalled the Bible nearly in full, Lord Macaulay boasting of Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, Dr. Lerden who could recite an act of parliament after hearing it, a London reader who wrote an entire debate from memory, and Henry Clay who never forgot a name or argument though he could not memorize a stanza of poetry.
Mr Kidder reports a friend considering boarding here. Mrs Starvem hopes the table is recommended. The exchange notes a pugilist seeking to increase reach, reflecting local dining and training talk.
An account notes Mrs Casey Sbhure and Mrs Clancy Hubh recount a move that required three furniture wagons and three deputy sheriffs to complete. The brief highlights the persistence of residents during a relocation influenced by legal or official process.
The article discusses twentieth century leap years and states there will be twenty five leap years in the century. It notes 1904 as the first leap year and that 2000 is the last. It adds February will have five Sundays in 1920 1948 and 1976.
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