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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
5
A faded reminiscence discusses a popular rhyme about whistling girls, then shifts to modern praise of whistling on campus. It notes whistling firms lips and strengthens vocal cords, urges practice, and ends with a reader seeking eye lash stains with a polite reply offering walnut stain advice.
A reader asks if wrapping hair in a shawl during sleep harms hair. The reply says it reduces ventilation, potentially weakening hair, and suggests airing the room with screens or open windows to lessen drafts.
A home section lists appealing dishes Escalloped Corn and Oysters and Unusual Baked Beans with navy beans and pork. Marshmallow dessert uses gelatin and colored layers. A quick Homemade Mustard recipe follows. Helpful household hints cover ink removal, blood stains, stove polishing, rusted shaker tops, cutting gingerbread, kerosene cleaning, and cooking onions with cheese.
A clipped fragment quotes Dickens noting time's paradox of aging and riches. It pairs lines on growing old, learning through life and peril, with reflections on experience shaping fortune.
Narrative traces Lead City origin from Gold Run and Homestake Mine discovery, detailing camp life with saloons, theatres, and recreation built by a local corporation. Notes bishopric, churches, schools, and moral advocacy shaping a prosperous, active mining community. Also includes livestock prices and market data from Union Stock Yards with mixed cattle, hog, and sheep figures.
The article describes Lead’s transformation from a mining camp into a modern city with suburbs like Highland Cork and Kenwood, electric trolley service, and a large gold output. It notes diverse nationalities, strong civic spirit, high home ownership, a three-commission government, and extensive road networks attracting tourists and notable visitors.
Sioux City market receipts 1,500 cattle and 600 sheep with steady tone. hogs $9.30 to $9.70 range, down 10 cents from prior. Tuesday pigs weak, beef trade softer 10-15 cents vs last week, veal calves $6.00 to $11.00, cows $4.50 to $9.50, stockers steady, lambs slipping while sheep hold.
Minneapolis market report lists cash close and futures for wheat corn oats barley and rye. Prices shown for No 1 hard No 1 northern No 2 northern durum and futures contracts for July September December with assorted arrive and choice values.
Hartsough builds a large general store in the new town after fire destroyed his Hooker business. A hotel will rise soon and main lines of trade are planned. Great Northern railway may stop there and state railroad officials may aid in a passenger and freight depot construction.
Spring weather shifts bring colds and grippe that may become a chronic summer cough. Treat with Dr. King's New Discovery a pleasant laxative tar syrup that soothes the cough checks the infection and requires no mixing or fuss. Ask your druggist for a bottle.
Charles Johnson of Fairfax forecasts that a new briquetting process by a Jackson company could halve fuel bills by converting North Dakota and South Dakota lignite into briquettes. The government places North Dakota and South Dakota lignite at thirty three billion tons, enabling long regional supply if bulk is reduced to permit marketable handling at about four dollars per ton.
Mr Johnson asserts a coming fuel supply revolution in the Northwest within years. Promoters aim to start producing by November with capacity to meet South Dakota needs within a year. They plan storage sheds along the Missouri and to fill them during high water, enabling barge transport downstream in early summer.
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as the best liver medicine. It claims the pills stimulate the liver and bowels without griping or nausea and aid digestion, available for 25 cents at your druggist.
Five generations gather at the J. W. Brink home in Ethan. Hor ation Brink, reportedly 938 years old, is the elder, with eight month old Dorothy Baker the youngest. The lineage runs through Horation Brink of Ethan, I. W. Brink of Ethan, Asa Brink of Waterloo, Iowa, and Mrs H. J. Baker and daughter Dorothy of Waterloo.
An advertisement guarantees Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment will cure eczema or refund money. It applies to babies, children, and the elderly, regardless of duration. Cut out the strip, purchase a box, use as directed, and get a refund if not fully satisfied.
Mrs. A J Dickinson 4 years old, daughter of Chamberlain S D, died at her home after a paralytic stroke. A pioneer Dakota resident, she authored a volume of poems of western life and was dubbed poet laureate of the Dakotas.
Coyne, of Pierre South Dakota, has filed his expense account as a candidate for secretary of state showing expenditure of 358.30 dollars. The filing lists campaign costs including travel and supplies in support of the bid filed in the district or state elections office.
Milwaukee trading for wheat corn oats barley and rye with spot and futures quotes. Dakota No 1 northern wheat bids range around 1.10 to 1.12 and July wheat near 1.00. Corn values listed for multiple grades with mixed and yellow varieties around 72 to 78 cents. Oats and barley prices shown with Nov and July oats around 39 to 40 cents and barley around 61 to 76 cents. Rye prices appear at several small values.
Loomis held a Saturday afternoon gathering. Miss Clara Rosecamp visits London home this week. Miss Marie Ford visits Miss Anna Morgan. Farmer's club program featured songs and readings by Lele Landon and Harold Chinn. Refreshments followed. Missionary society met with Mrs. N. D. Lewis. Farmer's Elevator annual business meeting noted. Mrs. Clay Young and children of Vermillion visiting Loomis. Rodell Warne and family returned from honeymoon to the Warne farm north of town. Arthur Brodstrup employs crew east of town. Joelannah and Morgan families with Miss Ford visited Will Clark home on Sunday.
Pierre S. D. Lake Norden's form of government changes from town to city as filed with the secretary of state. The move formalizes a shift in local governance and status for the community.
Sioux Falls report notes Henrietta, the newest town in South Dakota, forming at a Great Northern crossing between Davis and Viborg. Promoter Charles Hartsough, a Hooker newspaper man, helped start Henrietta.
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