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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1901
Page
12
The article details county educational updates including teacher reports, institute plans, and a May 4 teachers’ meeting led by county officials. It notes scholarships, equipment purchases, new certificate forms, and a feature on local performances and student awards. It ends with a health notice about kidney trouble treatment.
The Davison county and Mitchell city boards of health urge all unvaccinated persons to be vaccinated promptly. Exposed individuals to varioloid or smallpox should be vaccinated immediately. An advertisement for Mull’s Lightning Pain Killer claims it treats internal or external pain and notes sale by J. H. Ferris.
A New Orleans visitor recalls Rio de Janeiro as the easiest place to obtain credit yet the hardest to avoid debt. He describes semi annual settlements, a misguided boot order mishap, and a city-wide refusal policy against unpaid accounts that leaves him socially ostracized until he settles.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a selfless rider who paid three fares to stop an electric car for a lady. He tossed an umbrella to a little gray whiskered man, provoking disapproval from both the gray whiskered man and the conductor for his generous act.
An excerpt notes a pompous man's claim and a dramatic line about a quarrel. It then surveys occupations, stating before age 50 clergymen are healthiest, while doctors and lawyers are closer to healthful by comparison. After 50, medicine or law outrank preaching.
Congressman Eddy of Minnesota recalls a campaign in his district when a veteran drummer drew crowds with drum music. A 12 year old boy at the foot of a dry goods box judged the speech, saying the captain should drum all the time.
Mr. Justice Willis, a prominent and popular English judge, is noted for humor and firm court decorum. An assize verdict at Guildford sparked applause as he ordered the removal of a lady in a red dress from the gallery, rebuking her for clapping. He reminded the audience that court proceedings are not a theater.
The New York Sun recounts a Christmas tale of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland entertaining Dutch university professors. A linguist guest is asked to pronounce a long royal name, blushes, and is told to study it at home after the queen’s playful mercy.
George Cooper once predicted great future for two young organ students Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir John Stainer. Cooper taught both boys at St Stephen's church in London and set them a competitive extempore challenge to gauge their talent. He believed they would achieve something significant in the world, noting prophets are rare.
The poem questions who can define love as it eludes definitions from a child’s innocence, a knight’s trials, a beggar before Christ, or the moonlit sea. It argues knowledge cannot be gained from time joy or suffering, highlighting Theodosia Pickering Garrison’s reflections in Brown Book of Boston.
Report describes a six foot water moccasin entering a dredgeboat's deck dining room, swallowing turkey eggs and becoming jammed inside a jug while the crew worked on the Matanzas river. A cook killed the snake and preserved the jug with the fatal handle. Also explains lich gate origins and regional spellings in churchyard lore.
An old ex-slave in Memphis, after cashing an $11 pension, buys three crates of cabbage at a produce house. He plans to eat the cabbage until he forgets how to move his mouth, declaring freedom at last after 40 years.
A photographic plate in a large telescope shows a blur of light indicating space’s vastness. It suggests the heavens teem with millions of suns and possibly many planets. Also includes comic snippets about social misreads and literacy rates among women and in British India.
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