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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1897
Page
8
A mosaic of vintage quotations from major papers discusses legislative reform, Greece and the Eastern crisis, Cuba, and gender roles. The items juxtapose calls for sanitary schools, debates on taxation within marriage, and reflections on Chicago society and trust examinations, all signaling late 19th century public discourse.
The article argues a two minute trotter is unlikely soon and will likely come from an aged horse trained gradually over years. It explains that true natural trotting is a steady gait between walk and run and cautions against overtraining young horses. It predicts lasting records emerge in mature, well-conditioned trotters rather than youth.
A Boston woman eyed moving west after a health scare but the postmaster reply warned of a lively town with dances and a high death rate. He claimed natural deaths are rare, all crime is punished swiftly, and lynching hill is a local curious ritual.
Miss Anna Carlson of Lower Alloway Salem County suffers a rare eye affliction. She reads normally yet letters invert when reading, a condition perplexing physicians. The article notes multiple chrome prints require ten to twenty printings for color accuracy.
A compilation of scattered notes notes variously about land use in Connecticut, Missouri marriage license outlook, Florida display windows with snakes and tarantulas, partridges entering a Michigan schoolhouse, New York prison roadmaking ideas, and other small items from across the states. The items span agriculture, crime, curious incidents, and civic notes with named places and people.
A Wisconsin senator recalls a farm tale to illustrate endless expenditures in legislation. He recounts selling a cow, later funding household purchases, and ultimately paying about twenty thousand dollars for the cow money, a cost he deems acceptable as a cautionary parable about allocations.
YT. W. Young of Washington has invented an electrical heater lowered into oil wells to melt paraffin and clogged residues at the stone base. The device, about three feet long and cartridge like, delivers intense heat through carbon packed chambers to soften waste and restore upward oil flow, offering an alternative to costly torpedo blasting.
The article traces evergreen, mistletoe, and holly decorations to ancient Saturnalia and Teutonic rites, noting their role as shelter for sprites. It recalls colonial practice of hanging mistletoe to prompt a kiss, citing John Adams as a noted example of mistletoe wooing.
The article notes married German women wear a small cap or hood on their wedding day, a source of local pride. In Little Russia, married women always wear a thick dark cloth twisted around the head, even in hot weather.
A French engineer notes poles decay mainly in the ten to twelve inches beneath ground. He proposes tar coating and a sleeve of earthenware with a packed dry material in the unfilled space and a waterproof asphalt cap. The average car length is around 2 to 214 inches.
A collage of strings of anecdotes from satire and romance. It opens with a tale of a shrewd hustler who builds a dime museum scam, then shifts to a dramatic Chicago incident involving Vera Van Rafferty and Cecil D. Sykes Montressor, and ends with a quip about Rome seen by visitors and a Century writer’s note on General Grant.
The scene opens with a popular negro camp meeting where Rawlins cheers the drummer joke about Ain t I Glad to Get Out of de Wilderness and the General jokes that he only knows two tunes Yankee Doodle and the other. Sir Astley Cooper visits as surgeon with Hyatt the West Indian millionaire, Lettsom and Nelson as doctors. Hyatt rewards the surgeons with three hundred guineas each, then flings his night cap and a draft for one thousand guineas at Sir Astley in jest.
A lengthy note from Boston Transcript on Beacon Hill’s gilded dome outlines regilding delays due to interior work and weather exposure. It details past regildings in 1874 and 1888, cost ranges around $5,000 with gold leaf exceeding $2,000, staging costs, materials, and labor. The piece notes the dome may be regilded once interior work finishes, likely in under a year.
The column contrasts attitudes in England and America with playful quips about marriage and class. It notes English daughters of earls and American women who might wed earls if divorce and foreign marriages continue, sourcing Truth.
A Fossil woman who shot a coyote after it tried to steal her husband's turn keys brought the scalp to the newspaper office and affixed it to his subscription, displaying pride in her action and the trophy.
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