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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1886
Page
7
One Story and Clark organ in new condition with latest improvements offered for sale. Inquiries directed to the Office of the Mitchell Printing Company Thes.
The St Paul Railway Company owns and operates nearly 5000 miles of main line in Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and Dakota serving as a key Northwest and Far West route. For maps timetables rates and travel or freight inquiries contact the nearest station agent or any railroad agent in the U.S. or Canada.
A New York Letter recounts how fashionable women, lacking cash, use brokers and speculative saleswomen in large dry goods stores to buy stylish garments. The schemes allow keeping up with fashion at about a third of the cost, selling outfits back and forth to fund new ones while maintaining appearances.
A polemic notes American corruption accusations abroad and contrasts with Britain. It cites a chapter on official jobs and expenses, including a nobleman’s £4000 annual retainer for ceremonial duties. The piece also reports Copenhagen capitalists planning a Russo Danish Navigation Society with 7,000,000 rubles capital to order 30 to 40 iron steamers, potentially armed in wartime.
An Alabama cotton gin maker ships ten improved machines to Moscow as alleged Russian requirements for experimentation in Black Sea cotton culture surface. The move suggests state interest and potential industrial leverage in a distant region.
The article describes how paintings are produced in rented studios with teams of specialists. It explains roles from canvases and chalking to finishing touches and signing, noting copies and forgeries, demand for figures versus landscapes, and the varied skills of fruit and interior painters.
The San Francisco Post calls the city the ugliest in the union noting gray wooden houses, crowded blocks, and omnipresent fences that ruin the face of the city. It contrasts with Eastern cities and praises open lawns and green expanses hidden behind walls.
A cynic in the San Francisco Chronicle excerpt derides life as dull and insipid. He says society merely passes the time while people talk and brain each other into exhaustion, except for a few exceptions.
A collection of sharp excerpts on Chinese immigrants, manners, and morality, including a blunt tip about whisky tastes and cultural copying. Also notes on a girl reacting to a reprieve, Russian censorship, and a chef's take on broiling beefsteak with a peculiar numeric quip.
Mexico near active competition with Cuba in tobacco. The Canton de los sextins is expected to produce 1,250,000 pounds this year. Mexican tobacco, previously sold in the US under Cuban marks, may now compete on its own merits despite quality concerns from lax cultivation.
A fragment from MON REVEL paints a dream lover as a celestial beauty, while a Washington Letter item sketches a sunny-haired child page in the House of Representatives, cherished by lawmakers yet worn by constant patting. It also notes Henry Durand of Charleston keeping a southern mockingbird that imitates a spring chicken to entice restaurant patrons.
A Philadelphia Call report describes patients drinking warm fresh steer blood to treat pulmonary and other diseases. Observations include a feeble young woman, a three year old, and a recovering consumptive girl whose appearance improved after months of consumption. The piece notes blood taste, costs, and the use of blue glass cups to hide color.
A Chesterfield DC gentleman and Confederate veteran explains Georgia’s faster industrial and urban growth. He cites Georgia’s stronger money-sense and eagerness for dollars, contrasting it with South Carolina’s focus on education and past glory.
An ornithologist on a New York Madison Avenue horse car observed on eleven women's bonnets: heads and wings of three European starlings, a foreign-origin bird, seven warblers of four species, a large tern, head and wing of three shore larks, wings of seven shore larks and grassfinches, half a gallinule, a small tern, a turtle-dove, a vireo and a yellow breasted cat, and ostrich plumes.
A memorial concert fundraiser yields a novel gift breakfast. Miss Thursby opens an omelet made of $20 gold pieces, with a cotton crust concealing the treasure worth $2,300. The breakfast was hosted by several ladies who directed the concert.
The Daily Republican a seven column folio in South Dakota reaches 90 000 population across a 10 00 square mile area. Advertising rates listed: one year six months three months one month one week at 10.00 by mail or delivery. Single copies cost 5 cents. Rates available on request.
A compound for purifying sick-room air was presented to the Berlin Medical Society. It mixes rosemary lavender and thyme oils with water and nitric acid in specified parts, with shaken bottles and sponges used to diffuse vapor. The vapor is claimed to control odors and effluvia from infectious disorders.
A quip from Arkansaw Traveler notes no hope for a liar once trapped in the Rabie of lying. The saying mocks self deceptions about quitting bad habits and warns that lying becomes incurable once embraced.
A Boston Traveler note says demand for competent teachers exists in the west and in New England. Washington Territory experiments in spruce gum production may break Maine’s long monopoly, altering the market for this product.
The Weekly Capital boasts over 2200 readers in Davie son County and is the oldest paper there. It features 56 columns of first class reading matter weekly and plans improvements to further its status as a leading family newspaper in the West.
Advertising rates are listed with a one year price of 2.00 and six months for Mia 100 with a three months option at 00. Sample copies are free and rates are provided on application.
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