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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1910
Page
5
A homemaking column urges proper cleaning attire and habits. It promotes a sensible sweeping dress, hair and ear protection, loose gloves, mouth breathing cautions, nasal cleansing, and post cleaning skin care. It also describes drapery and room color coordination for a coordinated tidy home.
The article promotes rolling as an easy home exercise to shed weight, claiming 15 minutes each morning can reduce pounds. It warns against overdoing it, notes required hand positions, warm bath then cold rinse, and asserts many women see benefits while avoiding harsh dieting. It also describes fashion trends for spring including pongee coats, brocade blouses, lace, hats, and draped gowns.
The article describes economical curtains for colonial style homes. Plain net or linen tape curtains are stitched with modest hems and corner designs. They hang beside the window pane and along the top and sides of window casings for inside hangings.
A rainbow themed party gathers seven guests skilled in knitting. The hostess provides color balls and small projects like mittens scarves or a sweater. Prizes include homemade candy and a decorated cake, with a cardless, inexpensive table featuring salted almonds and creamed chicken dishes.
Soft satins woven to resist fading lead evening cloaks in a new Paris deco ration. A long embroidered soutache panel runs from collar to cloak edge. Wide bands trim loose sleeves, wrap drapery is caught under the panel, with a high embroidered collar and black velvet disk closures.
The text contrasts a wife who greets her husband with a smile at night and returns one in the morning with a nagging wife who smiles only for guests. It argues a cheerful disposition grows and children inherit parental traits, claiming a smiling home yields a better heritage than constant frowns and harsh words.
A housewife would value turpentine for rapid burn relief and throat or rheumatic relief. It repels moths when dabbed in drawers and chests and deters ants and insects when applied to rags in shelves and bed joints. A spoonful per bucket aids cleaning paint and floors.
Do not wash gilt banded or gold decorated china with strong acidic soap. It can erode the gold finish. Use a pure white soap to keep the design intact without damage.
Caroline Thurber recounts a Norwegian journey in which 42 consecutive fish meals are noted, with boiled potatoes and a host of unique foods. The piece highlights local dairy and eggs, plus a lavish supper menu featuring sausage varieties, raw salmon, pickled fish, cheese, breads, and gooseberry marmalade.
A New Yorker recalls clever orange eating tricks learned in Jamaica and Porto Rico. The planter’s knife work yields two sections with minimal rind and maximum juice, while a Porto Rican hostess exposes the fruit to squeeze out pure juice. The piece also notes the “nannie” orange, a wrinkled fruit thought to be exceptionally sweet and luck-bringing.
The Portland Oregonian notes Seattle’s quail overrun the city, a nuisance grown from a firearm ban and natural quail fertility. Residents in outer areas plan to urge the city council to curb the birds that feed along Lakes Washington and Union shores and disrupt gardens and grain.
The first bituminous coal mined in the United States came from the Richmond Basin in Virginia near Richmond. The basin spans Goochland, Henrico, Powhatan and Chesterfield counties on the eastern Piedmont margin, with early known occurrence by 1700 and 1789 shipments to northern states. Early production in 1822 reached 48,215 gross tons. today remaining coal is used for local consumption.
A compact survey of legendary duels and historic bouts from ancient heroes to Buffalo Bill and the Sullivan Kilrain clash. It recounts David versus Goliath, Hercules against Antaeus, Achilles versus Hector, Horatius, Launcelot versus Gawain, Jim Bowie versus Major Wright, Pleasants versus Ritchie, Buffalo Bill versus Yellow Hand, and the Sullivan Kilrain world championship in 1889.
A poem by A. F. Madison in Spencer Herald ridicules pre election pledges to revise the tariff downward. It satirically targets party promises to bust trusts and aid workers while predicting escalating prices and universal prosperity only after improbable events.
The Danish government proposes a project with its engineers to harness hydraulic power from the Lagu near Helsingborg. A fall of about 100 meters lies within two kilometers of the river’s mouth, along a 30 kilometer stretch from the elevated plateau to the coast.
A plan to build a hydro electric plant and transmit power to Helsingborg via submarine cables across the Sund is outlined. The installation will first benefit Leland Island with a narrow sea gap of five kilometers between Helsingborg and Helsingor facilitating cable work.
In a Virginia case a young attorney quizzed veteran Colonel Hopkins on a point of law. Hopkins replied he would enlighten him in Richmond for a consideration. The youth offered a half dollar noting there is no time like the present and asked for change.
Jerome S. Mc Wade recalls offering a five dollar prize to boys in his Sunday school for the best short love story as Valentine day approaches. He notes he has one of the entries and reflects on the contest and its tribute to virtue.
A reader recounts a parable where a poor man loves a rich toy dealer’s daughter. A villain offers money to make him a drunkard, but he declines. Finding a bag of gold, he wins the lady, they wed in splendor, and have twins. The moral: virtue is its own reward.
In a humorous column from the St. Louis Star a speaker recalls dances with Geraldine and others, noting elopements last week. He confesses lingering hope, then reveals a new claim that she said she would be his wife, while reflecting on past courtships and misadventures.
A dialog sketches patient expectations about medical charges and visit length. The patient asks for fees while the doctor quotes half a crown per visit. The patient seeks a shorter, focused consultation rather than a full session.
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