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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
12
The text traces the origin of the phrase making a ducks and drakes with money to an old rhyme about skipping stones on water. It explains the child’s game with a stone and water as a social metaphor for heedless spending, noting the rhyme 1 2 A duck and a drake and related lines.
A linguistic note explains how phrases evolve from errors into standard usage. The expression to the bitter end is traced to mishearing of to the better end, linked to nautical practice when a vessel pays out cable until the end. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is cited with the authentic form in a Yar-mouth storm description.
Notice is given that L L Younie as mortgagee will sell at public auction in Mitchell Davison County South Dakota at 2 oclock PM on March 80 1907 the chattel described in the mortgage to secure 550 35 due including interest on a note of 138 with 5 owners. The property is a mare named Topsy eight years old 950 pounds and the increase thereof. Auction follows default on payments per mortgage dated December 16 1905. Lewis Shuster attorney.
Davison County South Dakota announces a public auction of chattels to satisfy a note for 186 dollars secured by a March 17 1904 chattel mortgage to L L Younie Sioux County Iowa. At 2 pm March 30 1907 Mitchell corner Second and Main a grey mare Daisy a bay mare Kate a bay horse a wagon draft harness and increases will be sold.
Mortgagor executed a chattel mortgage on April 18 1904 to L L Younie to secure debts of 234.45 dollars plus costs. Public auction set for 2 p m on April 30 features two 3 year old brown mares Flora and May with left front white foot, plus a set of double harness and all property under a prior first mortgage.
Norvell captures first place in the nineteenth annual oratorical contest at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell. Satterlee, Schuler, Auckland, Marble and James also place, with judges praising thought and delivery. The Dadaelian society celebrated with a torchlit procession as Norvell earns high hopes for the state finals.
Weather bureau at Huron reports the James River nearing overflow danger as it rises about two feet in the last 36 hours. Major Glenn says 2.6 feet above danger line and telephones warn nearby towns and farmers near the river. Gleason notes bottom lands flooded while river sits below February thaw levels.
Water under high pressure can pierce cast iron and even a finger. Early hydraulic jacks showed water issuing like a needle through metal, proving its penetrating force and danger to the unwary.
Endorses Bitters as a fast acting remedy with clear benefits after initial doses. Urges readers to start today to experience relief sooner.
An advertisement touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as the only medicine to strengthen rundown systems and cure Spring Fever Colds Grippe Dyspepsia Indigestion Costiveness or Malaria Fever and Ague claiming absolute purity.
Congressman Bede spoke to Mitchell on the lecture and concert course topic Our Nation Its Problems and Its Progress. He drew on anecdotes, argued for optimistic views of the future, and noted the century’s inventions while addressing press questions on wealth, trusts, and reform.
The text argues that Arctic water gaps like the Bering Strait and Baffin Bay discharge vast ice flows that prevent catastrophic buildup if landlocked. It notes polar locations ease excess mass to protect Earth's gravity balance and shield life from cataclysmic floods and upheavals.
The khamsin or hot desert wind blows from the Sahara into Egypt. The name derives from fifty days, reflecting its duration. The wind is extremely hot and dry and can bring pestilence with it.
The dialogue shows Tom and Nell discussing a rejection. Nell claims she gave a reason, saying she did not think Tom would accept no as an answer, as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
St Louis wrestling star Jean Baptiste uses a powerful move described as a lid. He lifts and twists the opponent from the mat then secures a reverse crotch hold while pulling the neck, driving the foe flat to the mat with a heavy fall.
Alvin C Kraenzlein former Penn athlete is chosen to succeed Thomas B Burke at Mercersburg academy as track coach. He coached at Wisconsin two seasons and trained Philadelphia area schools. A record holder in hurdles and broad jump he expects to develop stars from a 75 man squad for the spring.
The Intercollegiate Regatta board of stewards scrapped the centipede race proposed for Poughkeepsie New York due to too few entries. Coaches Ward of Pennsylvania and Rice of Columbia supported the idea while Courtney of Cornell and Ten Eyck of Syracuse led the opposition. Only two of six entries remained, sealing the decision.
Coach Courtney offered Cornell shells for sale to clear space at Cayuga Lake. Nearly sixty offers poured in for the shells, with six sold to smaller colleges. An order for six came from Seattle, but Courtney kept the boats from larger colleges to protect Ithaca crews.
Picknel a son of Allerton who won multiple pacing races in Pennsylvania and New Jersey last year was bought by D. B McMenamin of Elkton Maryland.
George D Beal of Jamestown New York reports his pacing mare Doro thea D by G W D is age five and clocked 2 08 14. He believes she could beat 2 1 at three years old and has strong pacing speed potential.
Tom Stuart trains in Abdallah part Cynthiana Kentucky with pacers High Grade 2 114 percent and His Seven 2 13 as part of a motorized harness racing program.
Minneapolis houses twenty two enormous flour mills with a daily capacity equal to grinding wheat from 26 000 acres. Their combined daily output totals 75 000 barrels of flour. It takes 5 000 000 acres of land to grow enough wheat to sustain the mills for a year.
A letter to J Harker explains a paint test where two houses painted with Devoe and an average paint show one needing double the amount with the other. Devoe is called go-far ahead of rivals, with others rated as go-short go-mid and go-three-quarters. Published by F W Devoe & Co and sold by M H Gosche.
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