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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1899
Page
2
A long column of small town notes recounts visits, real estate moves, farm sales, school events, and township elections across Bard Ethan Badger Beulah and Blendon. People relocate buy sell farms move cattle and plan improvements while social events and church activities highlight the week.
South Sanborn Ravenna March 8 update covers spring hints and health, with Jacob Witzel ill, A B Rowley’s cattle trip to northern state for milch herd sales, Dessa Kimble visiting Farwell, and ladies aid basket supper planned for March 10. Other items note moves to Mitchell, Old South Dakota sentiment, Stover feed grinder purchase, Farwell Literary Society program with a debate on Indian versus Negro treatment, and community visits by Clyde Kimble Bertha Slade. Wheat prices drop and Glen Smith’s improving health. Mrs Turney and Ruth Visit from Plankinton, Gertie Bromwell begins school term in Raymond district.
A benevolent woman sends a girl to the country to study artificial flower work. In a garden the child admires real blooms, marveling at pansies and a rosebush, noting realism and beauty beyond factory-made pieces. She muses about Fleurette's factory and wonders how the real roses would affect the creator.
A young foreigner newly arrived in London declines a dinner in his honor saying he was not hungry. Friends had arranged the meal, but he did not attend and later explained his absence with the unexpected reply.
A Philadelphia Press line records a quip from a Russian beauty urging holidays to honor great men, contrasted with a major who jokes that in the American year there are only 865 days. The exchange highlights cultural humor about time and commemoration.
A Cincinnati Enquirer clipping shows a wife claiming she married to reform her husband. The plan backfired as he now dislikes the woman he married and seeks a divorce, arguing the marriage failed to achieve its intended change. The brief notes the unusual motive and marital breakdown between the pair.
A piece on the persistence of superstition and the light of education, noting sorcery trials and vampiric legends, then shifts to hunting with gunpowder. It recalls Maximilian the emperor praising archery over early firearms and describes late sixteenth century adoption of firearms by hunters and anti poaching efforts.
The article notes extensive smoking among Koreans for both genders, with long pipes previously common and now banned for common people after the reform period. It describes native, poor quality cigarettes, small cigars, and widespread use of American cigarettes in the palace, despite a 20 percent import duty and rising American manufacturer influence.
Mr X moves into a new house with a stiff bell system causing a loud doorbell. He warns pull gently, but friend Z pulls with urgency after misreading the chalk note. The crescendo ends with X muffling the bell.
A young Charles Spurgeon faced a vociferous virago who tried to tongue lash him at her gate. He endured with a calm smile, delivers gentle quips about rain, and keeps moving. The woman's rage subsides and is never renewed.
Rep Bras explains why the House did not pass the Stites dispensary bill after Senate passage. He cites lack of timely House action, the bill’s need for constitutional amendments, swift committee rejection, and moral as well as financial objections to county dispensaries and state controlled liquor.
Rawson Post G A R adopts resolutions honoring Mary M Stearns wife of O D Stearns a devoted mother and friend. The comrade receives soldierly sympathy and offers to bereaved family and notes minutes. Also a local testimonial reports A R De Fluent journal editor in Doylestown Ohio suffers rheumatism and praises Chamberlains Pain Balm. Advertising cure claims Cascarets candy and money back guarantee if not cured.
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