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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1893
Page
5
Notes on feminine duties, sacrifice in motherhood, and home management urge careful detail in kitchen layout. It cites New York State voting rights for qualified women and explains how local districts grant limited school and tax voting to citizen women, detailing eligibility and duties.
The article explains that women not on the town tax roll may vote if over 21, reside in the district, and hire a house or land in the district, with or without a dependent child in school. Rent or taxes need not be paid. a nominal rental suffices. Married women may vote under the same terms, including by verbably renting land for a dollar a year.
A New York Evening Post piece describes annual garden parties by a celebrated French hostess. Guests arrive in peasant or historical dress, greeted by wagon arrivees, cider and rural refreshments, and lively lawn sports. Proposed ideas include Indian, Dutch, English, and French elder styles, cottage dairy treats, and playful acts such as a gypsy camp or fortune-teller to heighten amusement.
In a Boston Courier note wives and daughters prepare for coming out as winter gowns arrive from Paris and events are scheduled. Hosts plan weekly dinners and guest lists, while society girls must attend dinner calls and dances to maintain interest of young men. Failure to comply risks lost social standing and partners at the next hall.
A recent English entertainment featured a novel ladies fire brigade. Twenty six young women, including some honorable misses, demonstrated pumping hose practice ladder and blanket drills in a picturesque dark blue and white uniform with scarlet sashes on the green.
A California girl touring a musical baronet’s grounds in England encounters a peach tree trained along a southern wall. She exclaims it looks like a pan for the fruit to lean on, and the baronet replies that peach trees are always grown that way in polite, rare phrasing.
Two friends debate a harsh remark made about one by Mrs Preacher yesterday. One says the comment was disagreeable while the other avoids hearing details, signaling strain in their conversation.
In Tit-Bits a playful exchange has Mr. Duffer declaring he will not marry until he meets his direct opposite. A woman nearby responds that there are many bright, intelligent girls in the neighborhood ready to meet such a match.
A New York church minister bids his family goodbye and entrusts Bobby with protecting Mamma. Bobby prays asking the Lord to guard Papa, Dick, Alice, Aunt Mary, and the Jones boys, but says he will look after Mamma himself.
The piece narrates a humorous scene where milkmaid pride and a cow named Milkmaid cause an incident with Mr Cityman, while The Other Girl laments over his known fondness for milk punches. The usual light hometown gossip tone captures a quirky local moment.
A terse notice notes that as a husband grows more enamored with his wife, the cost to support her increases, reflecting a curious social observation recorded in SUR.
A travel note extols the Antrim coast from Fair Head to Portrush praising basaltic pillars nine hundred nine tall, the Giants Causeway’s polygonal columns, the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, and the round tower near Antrim. It contrasts nature’s grandeur with human monuments and touches on Jewish dietary views relating to slaughter methods and animal welfare debates.
A Shakespeare passage notes Hamlet chides the courtiers who would judge actors by rank. He says to treat players according to their own honor, highlighting the tension between status and art. The line underscores themes of hypocrisy and social hierarchy in the scene.
Passengers ride as electric bell presses itself to stop the car repeatedly. A bell rings for multiple stops until a sleeping passenger’s hat pin presses the button, causing the bell to cease and the car to halt. Laughter erupts among riders and crew.
Sheridan notes compare wit to manners and argues that true politeness comes from inner principle, not social position. The true gentleman remains constant from cottage to palace, acting simply and with nature regardless of company or status.
The text describes ritual practices from various cultures: a sentinel with a drawn sword to guard a drinker, a Borneo burial custom requiring a slave to attend the funeral, Greek mourning rituals with abstention from wine and ornate attire, and Ethiopian displays of humility with nakedness before revered individuals.
The passage notes alcohol has flaws as a low temperature liquid due to sticking, irregular expansion, and impurities. M Chappuis proposes toluol with a boiling point of 100 degrees C as a suitable substitute, free from those disadvantages.
The article notes Indian elephants object to rail travel, recounting a fatal collision with a train near Hyderabad where the Nizam witnessed the tragedy. It details how elephants and mahouts attempted to move off the track as the locomotive could not stop in time, killing the largest elephant and injuring others.
Mrs Highland Parke recalls a clean polite tramp who asked to work for a meal. He mowed the lawn but the couple later discover he stole the lawnmower, revealing a surprising twist in a Buffalo Express item.
The 1890 census reports 600000 tons or 1200000000 pounds of butter produced in the United States, with total value around 21 million dollars. Iowa leads production at 100 million pounds three years prior, followed by Illinois at five million dollars in value, indicating vast national output and rising figures.
The article notes how seasonal changes and vegetation shape the planet’s appearance. Mosses and lichens color Greenland’s crimson cliffs and Yellowstone’s Golden Gate, while waterborne algae tint hot spring terraces. It discusses Earth’s space view and Mars greenery comparisons, referencing lunar green light during new moon.
Scientists Dr C H W Gilbert and O P Jenkins from Stanford report rapid salmon disappearance along the Lower Columbia from Astoria upward due to nets traps and canner slaughter. They note Major Marshall MacDonald, U S Fish Commissioner, plans West this fall to seek protective legislation in Oregon and Washington.
Silverware is now wholesaling as low as one dollar per ounce and manufacturers predict forks spoons and utensils will fall in price. Some forecasters believe plated ware will give way to sterling in moderate homes. With silver cheapening more arts usage of the metal may follow.
Introduction of garbage destructors shows waste becomes profit. In Widnes England a destructor feeds an electric plant powering the town hall market library technical schools and part of street lamps.
In 1816 Congress enacted the first pre-emption law allowing settlers on public lands to purchase 320 acres. It marked the start of a long series of similar enactments shaping western land policy.
In Hillsborough County a solid rock forms a cliff with a seventy foot deep by thirty foot wide channel cut into its side. A crude natural staircase ascends to the top where a natural pulpit and space for baptism are reported.
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