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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
5
A local column cites Edward W Bok urging men to keep their wives young and engaged. It argues social life benefits both partners, noting women's hardships and the duty of husbands to support happiness with shared activities and funds spent for a wife’s joy.
The piece offers old fashioned closet optimization advice with lower hooks and higher shelves, use of yokes for hanging garments, and crack filling methods like putty and plaster. It includes etiquette on skirt trails and a humorous note about a man at a rail station, plus a medical column on coughs and home remedies.
A fragmentary quotation appears describing a tense exchange about apologies and propriety on a staircase. The text credits Pearson's Weekly and centers on personal accountability and social expectations in a public stairway scene.
A fashionable society woman adopts dancing to shed weight, inviting stout friends to weekly polka and waltz sessions with a professional pianist. The effort reportedly yields notable weight loss, though described as more work than play. A New York World note discusses the blazer trend with dark-blue broadcloth and velvet accents, including a double cape and pearl buttons.
The piece notes Pliny recommended violet garlands for headache and recalls violet syrup used in Warwickshire as a soothing cordial for infants. It contrasts this with Lord Beaconsfield’s praise of strawberries for pretty girls, labeling violet syrup as a poetic form of medicine for babies.
The guide outlines dinner table manners including not standing to carry, forbidding gloves at meals, avoiding arguments, and treating daily manners the same as company manners. It prescribes crushing the napkin beside the plate, serving coffee at dinner’s end, and not pressuring guests beyond their declines. It warns against rude behavior, unnoticed accidents, and proper spoon handling. It also notes wine may be declined, teach children elder dining with dignity, and to seek hostess permission before bringing letters or books to the table.
The article lauds Prince George for his strong character and naval career from cadet to lieutenant, noting his discipline and industry. It recalls his early love of the sea, his service on ships such as the Thunderer and Dreadnaught, and hints at royal marriage to Princess May reducing the Tecks’ future throne claim while stressing romance may be more myth than fact.
A description of Delhi as the Rome of India with its thirty mosques and mausoleums and the Kutub Minar standing 250 feet after earthquake damage. It also profiles Agra’s Taj Mahal built by Jehan for Noor Mahal, requiring 20,000 workers over twenty-two years and costing over 4 million dollars.
Description of Agra architecture featuring an irregular octagonal base, marble terrace on red sandstone, minarets at corners, a central dome with cupolas, and lavish inlay work. The interior walls are adorned with mosaics of precious stones and inlaid Koran text in black marble.
The article reports Mr. Jackson asserting handwriting is worsening globally, supported by official reports, while the Boston News notes experienced readers often find manuscripts legible and even pleasing. It cites higher order papers and novels as examples, with rough drafts and erasures being the main exceptions.
The article discusses how handwriting varies with literacy and occupation. It notes educated writers and servant girls show different hands, argues fatigue affects prolific authors, and critiques sloped writing as harmful to eyes and posture. Mr. Jackson favors vertical writing and blackboard models over headlines to curb poor handwriting.
A sailor sits half asleep on his sea-chest when a gaucho approaches and, after a tense exchange, lassoes the box attached to Jack's chest. The gaucho gallops away, leaving Jack stunned as his property tumbles across the sandy plains, the theft cleverly executed in plain sight.
A report notes ducks can fly about 1500 miles in one flight while swallows and martins are estimated to cover roughly 900 miles in a day, indicating remarkable avian endurance and differing migratory speeds.
Dr. Deddee links hair color to life paths from ministry to travel, while imagining a world where diet or lifestyle could alter pigment. The piece contrasts canaries and humans, then muses on social disguises, fraud, and the limits of such changes, ending with reflections on wisdom and folly.
A practical recipe note detailing Kartoffel suppe from German cuisine with water and milk method, chives, potatoes, eggs, and butter, followed by a mackerel preparation guide. It covers cutting, boning, oiling, seasoning, grilling, and serving with maitre d hotel butter, watercress, and lemon.
A Florida account highlights the butcherbird or shrike known for cruelty. It details the bird impaling prey on thorny orange trees, including beetles and a canary, with a vivid anecdote of the canary's head taken in a swift, shockingly precise act. It also recalls a boy killing a large black snake as the butcher bird pounced nearby.
A Springfield Republication fragment mentions a rapid event where something twisted off the end of a tail and four inches of ornament were carried away, with a thorn on an orange noted in the brief account.
Prof H S Holden explains telescope power versus the naked eye. He details brightness factors from 2 inch to 36 inch lenses and notes practical magnifications for moon and planets. He argues large telescopes reveal faint objects and even Earthly scale from the Moon as seen from 200 miles. He speculates on distant, possibly intelligent life and real-world visibility of earthly works from the Moon.
The Rostov Globe explains blushing and pallor as natural responses to mental stimuli. Blood rushes to facial capillaries during emotions like joy or anger, while fear or horror drains color. With forewarning and calm nerves, habits may lessen, though a highly strung system makes perfect cure unlikely.
A New York Telegram report notes Professor A. H. Church of London explains turacin pigment in turaco feathers yields copper. Among 25 turaco species, 18 possess turacin in wing feathers and head plumage. the pigment can be dissolved by weak alkalis, shows a distinct absorption spectrum, and a single red feather reveals a green copper flash when burned. The copper amount per bird is about a fifth of a grain, with bananas as a possible copper source in the birds’ diet. mining comparisons are dismissed as a scientific curiosity.
A seventeen year old country cousin arrives unannounced at a town party with a portmanteau claiming he never catches anything. The hostess fears scarlet fever in the house as the elder children flee with the younger, while the teen quips about not catching diseases. The tale ends with the line that he did catch it that time.
An inspection of portable tools demonstrates successful performance with notable efficiency. Data shows consistent reliability across tested models, highlighting improved durability and user ease.
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