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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1903
Page
5
Useless in 30 days goods offered as best buys. Tailor made suits walking skirts dress skirts silk skirts silk coats and more. Wide selection of ginghams madras cloths shantungs ducks canvas cloth satin stripe veises and other materials displayed. Don't miss viewing before purchase.
City Plumbing and Heating Co proprietors Roth and Heuermann advertise services from 110 East 1st Street with phone 276. The notice emphasizes reliable plumbing and heating solutions for homes and businesses.
An English magazine recounts a banquet in London where Earl Lytton mocked Wilson Barrett and his works. Barrett’s triumphs The Lights of London and The Silver King are dismissed as hacks. The room erupts in derision as Lord Lytton’s Roman tragedy Claudian is ridiculed and fails.
The piece surveys beliefs about cats in Monferrato Hungary Germany and France noting cats as witches or omens of death or fatigue. It mentions a Kilkenny cats variant in Piedmont where wolves replace cats and contrasts with countries where superstition is favorable.
The text notes how insects mimic danger with false tails and marks to deter predators. It compares the lizard losing its tail, crabs shedding claws, lobsters grabbing and shedding limbs, and the squirrel using its bushy tail to aid escape, highlighting survival strategies through deceit and flamboyant traits.
In the rectory garden of Pysford near Woking England a large old tree known as the missionary apple tree has long been used by the parish rector to gather and sell apples of the Blenheim orange variety. The proceeds support the Church of England missionary societies and have raised considerable sums, selling well to gentry and farmers at favorable prices.
Bakalulua and other Africans craft salt by burning banana leaves and grasses, filtering the ashes through a leaf funnel, percolating water, and boiling to yield a salt rich in chlorate of potash and other salts. This was their sole source of salt before traders and missionaries.
A Baltimore Herald quip defines a thief who steals another’s stories as a second story man, contrasting it with a literary thief. The remark questions terms for protecting written plots and punchlines in journalism.
An auctioneer T. T. White offers a public auction at a farm 6 miles southwest of Mitchell on Monday March 30 at 10 o'clock. The sale includes Hereford cattle, hogs, horses, farm machinery, wagons, ear corn, seed corn, oats, potatoes, advertised at terms cash under 10 and eight months on larger sums. includes 1200 bushels ear corn and many items. Also ad for Ely Cream Balm liquid form.
A health claim describes how a weak stomach weakens the man and stops nourishment. It asserts that restoring stomach health is essential to restore the whole body, and promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as cleansing and strengthening the stomach to cure indigestion and related troubles.
It is claimed John Edward Addicks who since 1888 has sought a U S senate seat from Delaware spent nearly a million dollars in vain. The struggle left the state with a single senator for four years and then none for two years as political activity persisted and the scene remained unsettled. Rocky Mountain Tea advertised nightly remedy.
A Worcester Times reader laments optimistic winter predictions as gale winds and freezing air strike. The note likens weather prophets to a harsh vitamin used as a metaphor and plugs Rocky Mountain Tea complexion product at 35 cents by S. H. Seallin.
Play by Ibsen once little known outside Scandinavia titled The Warriors in Helgeland to be staged in London by Miss Ellen Terry under The Vikings banner. The work, rejected in Copenhagen and Christiania, finally reached production in 1861 in Christiania. Itchiness plague mention and a cure by Joans Ointment noted as 50 cents at drug stores.
South Africa summons four great coal regions for development. The southern field lies between Ladysmith and Natal's northern boundary, with vast capacity to meet rising world demand. Natal exported 204,000 tons in 1901 as a reference point for early output.
Flensburg reports changes at the post office with Gottlieb Wenzel taking charge and Mark Comus directing the skimming station. A basket social at a school house raised about eleven dollars for the district, while residents attend dances, sales, and family visits. The Mt. Vernon notes include travel to Chicago, St Patrick’s Day attendance, a Masonic dedication in Yankton, and the death of Mr Higgins’s little boy prompting condolences.
Sickness runs through the area with measles and grippe. Fred Cropsey’s sale drew buyers as cows calves and horses changed hands with prices up to 36 dollars. Bert Cropsey moved to Mt Vernon, while others sold horses and acquired cattle. Absent friends include Sadie Daniels visiting H S Stevens and Florence Barnard receiving head abscess treatment. Young folks enjoyed a Friday night dance and corn picking began among farmers.
A. F. Clark, a Glade Springs Virginia druggist, sold twelve bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy between 11 am and closing on January 25 1901. He praises its strong customer satisfaction and notes Virginia’s long familiarity with the remedy. Sold for sale by L. O. Gale, druggist.
A planter from Ceylon recalls a legendary night funeral by elephants. After a hunt, villagers found the tail and feet removed and the elephant carried through long grass into a rocky river bed, suggesting the herd buried their comrade unseen.
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