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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1886
Page
4
A garbled OCR fragment presents scattered phrases about people, places, and actions but lacks coherent details or identifiable entities to form a clear news item. The text appears as disjointed fragments without a discernible event or summary.
Mitchell Capital notes cotton fabrics rise in fashion with new novelties. It highlights cotton satin sheen, siciliennes, zephyrs and ginghams in multiple colors and textures, canvas cloth and bourette varieties, striped and plain weaves, coarse yet flexible fabrics, and predicted popularity of olive browns blues and grays. It describes price ranges from 50 to 60 cents per yard, preferred garnitures quantities, and late season canvas wools and evening wools in delicate tints.
The column examines girls fashion with Jersey polo and Scotch caps, two bodices per dress for day and evening wear, sealskin fur hoods in blue slaters, and trim with otter and beaver. Elegant outfits feature black Astrakhan bands on skirts jackets turbans and muffs as standard accessories.
In an opening British Association address Prof Lyon Playfair argues that science sped up lighting from tinder to phosphorus matches, saving time and boosting wealth. He traces matches’ development, notes safety improvements, and calculates a 26 million pound yearly value to the population.
The article outlines which states require licenses and which rely on ministers to record marriages. It lists details on who issues licenses, how records are entered, and variations such as public bans and oaths in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It notes registrar roles in Kentucky and New York and ends with a humorous anecdote about Al Sproule dancing in Michigan.
A deacon pleads for church growth while the pastor sighs at declining membership then hints at a scandal involving the minister and a church sister as a purported remedy. The note ends with a quirky aside about a Boston Courier in Knoxvinny Tennessee.
A miscellany includes verse about a mother's gift of a Bible, then Bible statistics such as Old and New Testament counts, verses, and notable middle chapters. Also commentary on life flaws in biblical figures and reflections on faith as life’s schooling.
A speaker contrasts types of Christians with railroad engines, from showy preachers in town to idle round-house engines, then shifts to a technical note on patent flour making and grain processing improvements. The piece links metaphorical engines to religious fervor and cites the Minneapolis flour mill process and the patent method improving yield and quality.
Incomplete OCR text shows a stray line about going out and coupling with phrases “Let us go out today and couple on to something” attributed to Sam Jones, with no clear event, date, or context available.
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