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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
5
Mitchell and vicinity report a busy week with visits from H E Mayhew and officials from Wayne Nebraska. Local births, marriages, and birthdays noted, plus updates on the Watertown reform school, Sioux Falls baseball plans, and a gala high school football dance.
County officials meet to audit terms and wrap routine business as a local column covers curious miscellany. Items include Chamberlain's Pain Balm testimonials, a precocious four year old luncheon tale, a patent hole in ship bottoms, and a lyrical critique of the Bad Lands with praise for nature's beauty.
A narrator and a colonel witness a dogfight erupting near the town post office. They flee into a doorway as gunfire erupts, leaving a man shot and others carrying away another wounded person. The colonel notes dogfights are beautiful but deadly, advising to wait until after the dead are carried off.
A green California mare named Mormon Girl leads a lineup of trotters with speeds like 2:11 for Alice Barnes driven by George Spear. The piece notes multiple horses including Thorndine at 2:11%, Irved Darling 2:14, and Bursar 2:17%4, with owners and trainers in Omaha Los Angeles and beyond.
A collection of maxims from Napoleon Quarles De Quincey Amiel Chesterfield Thackeray Bruyere and others. Advice ranges from perseverance and restraint in business to immediate saving and prudent money habits. Includes a wry note on widows and a jab at the milk of human kindness being skimmed.
Guidance suggests adding one fourth to one half teaspoonful of emulsion to a baby’s bottle several times daily to improve nourishment. For older children, half to a full teaspoonful in milk is advised. If maternal milk is insufficient the emulsion aids both mother and child, with a price of one dollar at druggists.
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