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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1891
Page
3
A rural family recounts leaving a farm for city life and returning after discovering city costs and pace drain them. They describe cramped housing, car fare, church location, illness, schooling issues, and the pull of farm freedom for children. The piece ends with a simple device to keep a gate open and brace it shut.
The column blends dairy notes with practical farming cost data and kitchen cures. It cites milk and cheese yields from Canada Manitoba Ontario Quebec and the United States, and offers household tips from curing fevers to sprains and burns.
The Wisconsin experiment station reports on pig feeding before and after weaning. Corn meal skim milk and shorts yield best gains when pigs are fed along with sow and moved to fresh clover. A warm sheltered farrowing shed and a movable pig sty improve health and efficiency for all classes of swine.
Practical tips for housekeepers cover egg freshness tests and safe fire revival using sugar. It advises scalding milk for custards to cut baking time, fabric care with vinegar, stain removal using alcohol and ammonia, a borax camphor hair wash, carpet freshness with tin leaves, and flour dusting on buttered cake tins to prevent sticking.
A fragment lists recipes including Beef and Pork mixture with mace and cloves for curing, Rarsep Cake with dough and sagir, Lemon Jelly Cake in layers, Potato Yeast instructions from potatoes, hops, salt and sugar, and Gingerbread using molasses soda ginger and lard with boiling water.
A man married for love is described as cheerful and devoted to family. He rises early, works with a clear conscience, and brings home thoughtful surprises for wife and children. The article praises fatherhood as the noble, unselfish life that brings contentment and dignity on birth and death.
A reminiscence of Sarah Battle at whist shows her strict card focus and disdain for mingling gossip during play while a literary man argues for casual chat. The piece contrasts her noble discipline with a note on seasoning casks noting sugar alters extraction from wood.
A history of U S railroading tracing steam locomotive origins from Trevithick to Cooper, Stephenson, and Winans. It covers early trials on the Liverpool and Manchester line, the Baltimore and Ohio start in 1828, the John Bull arrival, and the Mohawk and Hudson passenger train. The piece notes progress to modern express locomotives and vestibuled sleepers.
The St Louis Republic reports a French engineer’s idea of an oceanic railway using submerged iron tubes to carry trains between Cape Clear and Cape Race. The concept relies on dense deep water to prevent sinking and discusses engine smoke and electricity as propulsion, predicting a demonstration by 1893 World’s Fair. It contrasts with other speculative schemes and mocks perpetual motion devices.
Mr Nebeker a Covington Indiana banker about 50 years old and active in local politics becomes Treasurer of the United States. He has served Fountain County as Auditor and was twice a Republican State Central Committee member. He sought the Utah Territory marshal post but did not get it. He remains an ardent admirer of Harrison.
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