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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1898
Page
5
W Downey offers subscription options including one year prepaid and after six months, with varying copy counts. The notice urges subscribers to provide old and new addresses and to send correspondence to the office by Wednesday.
TO ADVERTISERS Advertising rates given an application and will be found reasonably low Business Cards not exceeding six lines five dollars per year Each additional line one dollar Business Locals five cents per line Legal Advertisements at Statute Rates Cards of Thanks ten cents per line Marriage and Death Notices published free of charge Obituaries Resolutions of Respect and Wedding presents five cents per line
Pred C. Kile takes control of the Watertown Journal for the Republican cause. South Dakota regiments may sail from San Francisco for the Philippines next month. Populists press Knowles and Kelley and Gov. Lee for renomination amid convention tensions in Aberdeen. Editorials critique Gov. Lee’s remarks on Col. Grigsby and recount past conventions, Pettigrew, Bailey, and Diamond faction contests, and the 1898 Mitchell convention with calls to unify the ticket and eliminate personalities.
The Minneapolis Journal praises South Dakota for patriotism in mobilizing troops with scarce public funds. Aberdeen gave 400 dollars while county authorities allotted 34 000 for Company F. Locals and firms raised funds as companies formed across the state, with strong public support for a new call.
The piece notes Lincoln county may nominate Major O S Gifford for governor at the Republican convention. It calls him a potentially strong executive and highlights broader state themes of service, sacrifice, and wartime patriotism shaping the era. It also mentions wartime rewards for Hobson’s crew, Hawaii annexation debates, and tributes to two South Dakota soldiers who died in camp.
The Cadiz fleet sails or feigns sailing every week or two to placate Spaniards and imply their government acts against the Yankees. Cervera remains near the coast and deters other Spanish squadrons from venturing far, then others return to ports, a pattern unseen since a historic royal maneuver.
The New York Post notes a season of abundant fashion detail with shoulder capes, summer percerines, and berths. Galatea trills reappear in boating and beach suits. hair styled high at the back. nets grenadines etamines and silk warp veiling dominate gowns. blues range from navy to forget-me-not. elaborate parasols and lace effects. belts slim and belts line waists. blouse waists become ornate. Donegal linens appear in tailor costumes with varied trims and linen and duck details.
A discussion on how regular muscular exercise improves heart efficiency. It explains that resting hearts do less work while active muscles aid circulation, increasing blood volume and oxygen delivery. It warns that heart failure may occur if diseased hearts are taxed by sudden strenuous activity without prior fitness and medical inspection.
A compact collection notes curious facts and anecdotes. It cites ordinary bricks absorbing water, nightcaps preventing dreams, India oak wood hardness, lives in Scotland once drowned as punishment, altitude limits, and middle aged deafness. It also recalls funerary customs, Mana Mana prison escape, Costa Rica’s name meaning rich coast, a deadly snake, a reader’s question about young men’s faults, and a shipboard bread buttering machine.
George W Cable drew surprise by speaking plainly as a white man at a London literary club. The salon medals honored Henner in painting Gardet in sculpture and Patricot in engraving and lithography. Orchardson was commissioned to paint a four generations group of England’s royal family. W H Funk was commissioned to paint Lady Aberdeen for presentation to the Women’s National Council of Canada.
The passage catalogs wedding customs and superstitions from various cultures. It notes Roman brides with spearpoint hair parting, a Philadelphia mother who hoped her son would be killed and thus kept him home before a fatal fall, a Swedish bride distributing bread to avert misfortune, and Burmese rites marking the onset of adulthood through leg tattooing for boys and ear piercing for girls.
General Washington consults Congress on bombing Boston during the siege. John Hancock, then president of Congress, expresses grave personal stake in Boston real estate and declares he would order the British army burned to ashes if it restores liberty, prompting silence and debate in the house.
A blind man identified his deceased wife in Bellevue morgue by touch after two women with the same name were carted there. Guided by a morgue keeper, he first rejected a wrong face, then, with both hands, confirmed Mary by the cold features. He whispered that he had found her, noting her face and coldness.
A Nebraska editor lauds a schoolmaam for drawing an iceberg on the blackboard and a fireplace on the opposite wall to save the school from a chilly crisis. The tale contrasts a dinner hour scene on a rough sea and notes the dining room’s imagined characters.
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