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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
3
A tale from Pratt Kansas describes two women who borrow a dozen eggs and dispute repayment. The debate over monetary value and timing spirals into local politics with spring elections hinging on the quarrel about whether money or friendship governs the transaction.
A Metropolitan Magazine verse describes warm winds reviving fields and violets, a sunny meadow bank beside a rill, and birds singing as the season returns. The piece praises simple natural pleasures and the renewing mood of spring.
May issue discusses pest control for cotton boll weevil in Texas and Louisiana, noting ants as the worst enemy and that dry weather aids pests. It covers swishes against San Jose scale in California fruit trees, lime sulfur wash formulas, and the role of birds like cardinals grosbeaks and bluebirds in destroying scale insects.
The May American Magazine discusses courage and humility. It recounts a West ised father who, amid wealth from pork packing, taught his children to remove hats and honor the sources of wealth whenever they encounter hogs on the road.
Professor Blau of Germany reports a new method to produce illuminating gas sold by the bottle at 15 cents per pound. A 22 pound cylinder at this rate yields a 50 candle power light for four months at four hours daily, costing about $1.25 per month.
Ned Singleton, bishop’s son, courts Ella a fisher girl then tests his love with three tasks at sea. They sail toward adventure board a yacht, reveal a forged life, and marry after Ella confesses a hidden true identity. The tale ends with a London reveal of Ned’s new wealth and status.
A Marshalltown judged corn show under the State Agricultural College judged a corn entry where seed ears fetched high prices and some farmers paid more than the prize value to reclaim ears. The piece notes Iowa’s seed improvement driving higher per acre yields and quality as farmers invest in better seed for bigger returns.
A long Arkansas legislative anecdote describes Senator Kutt telling a Groll story about morphine given to a pointer pup. Representative De Rossit retorts with a tale of dosing a hen with quinine and molasses, claiming the hen laid two eggs daily and produced potent tonics, claiming eggs cure various ailments.
A clergyman imagines Burmese style prayer wheels as a device to mute golfers outbursts. He suggests explosive language could be turned silently, but a golfer’s tirade erupts, prompting a quip about using a wheel on the offender’s hands.
Melbourne correspondence recounts Rev. W Brownlow’s account of the Dobuan people of New Guinea later Vaquia. He details land laws, matrilineal inheritance, gender roles, and practices of marriage and punishment, with notes on religion and ancestral customs and a stark view of their afterlife.
A Carlsbad report describes Hausindustrie home production across Bohemia where families weave lace and other goods at home for factory sale. Workers including children earn small daily sums, while artisans face long winters and low wages as factories lure them to seasonal field work instead.
A Lomsvile Courier-Journal extract describes the president preferring horses over cars. It cites his broncho busting out west and hunting in the east, and portrays horsemanship as central to his outdoor life. The piece emphasizes the horse’s movement, spirit, and challenge as his favored exercise.
Governor Hughes recalled a tale where a front row heckler named Harry Loff accosts a speaker and clashes with another man named Lott. The incident ends with a realization that the reference was to the poet Goldsmith, not the man in question.
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