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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1903
Page
11
A damaged OCR segment contains scattered words and letters about an event labeled Ev 1001. Readable parts include phrases like exam or roll and references to a last week teach. No clear date or named entities emerge from the fragment.
Fragmented text mentions Islands evolution and state matters, references to Gordon Lorena, Miss Gore as supervisor, university work, farm improvements, and rates via international lines. Unclear dates or events. partial references to county papers and rail rates.
The article surveys U S policy toward Panama and Colombia over the canal treaty, notes possible second war if talks fail, reports Cuban treaty progress in Congress with a decisive 325 to 21 vote, covers Chicago streetcar strike efforts and Rockefeller family tensions, and cites Nebraska Senator Dietrich bribery indictments amid media scrutiny. It also touches on newspaper rivalries in Highmore and Sioux City, with comments attributed to Harry Hunter and remarks about press influence on politics.
A long scribbled column notes a dull political year in South Dakota but predicts heightened activity next year with state county and national elections. It mentions the capital removal vote, Mitchell's strong Day county support and non-partisan considerations, then shifts to Senator Hanna’s letter denying presidential ambitions while praising Ohio’s GOP victory and urging party unity.
The Wessington Springs Republican endorses Mitchell as the state capital and argues for aligning papers with local interests. The N orth West region and Beadle county supporters weigh the capital’s location, while the Huronite favors Pierre, criticizing inconsistent platform building and calling for a central, accessible capital.
An old remedy praised for teething relief and gut soothing effects has been used for over sixty years by millions of mothers. It claims to tooth and soften gums, ease pain, cure wind colic, and treat diarrhoea. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle. Be sure to ask for the brand.
The piece portrays a smart walking costume made of covert cloth with strapped garments, a cap coatedini skirt, and rows of stitching along the foot. Sleeves and ears are strapped, with two passes described by French takers, highlighting fashionable concealments.
A white pique frock for a child features a guimpe neck finished with a deep tufie and embroidered edge. It has long full sleeves that puff at the elbow, a ruff around the upper sleeve, drawn work details, a gathered bodice, a belt, and a skirt pressed into plaits.
A detailed description of a black visiting costume featuring a circular skirt with perforated embroidery yoke, a narrow shoulder pelerine, high back point to waist belt with pas sementerie, large gathered sleeves with velvet cuffs, and a velvet choker. Also notes chic shirt waist trends with striped fabrics and vesting, plus a white funnel waist with oriental trimming and double plaits on flannel shirt waist.
Lace appears as a versatile trimming in garments and accessories. It is paired with buttons twine and haircloth in walking skirts while hand embroidered effects are praised as exceptionally fine. The text highlights lace as a dominant decorative element and warns of entanglement in its meshes.
The article explains the sensory function of a horse’s lips and facial hairs. It describes hairs as highly sensitive touch organs linked to nerves, guiding initial food contact, assessing safety, and aiding drinking by detecting surface cleanliness and directing to clean water. It notes the tongue's role in final judgment.
In Charlies Trotheroe’s Life In the Mercantile Marine two sea foods nicknamed "dog's body" and "Dani s funk" are described. Biscuits or pantiles are pounded into a paste with leftover pea soup, fat pork, and molasses to create browned morsels served from a canvas bag.
Onions, a staple vegetable of antiquity, were worshiped as a god in Egypt over two thousand years ago. Romans and Greeks knew many varieties and joked about them. Garlic also has deep roots in China and Egypt, with ancient priests deeming the plant unclean, leaving no pictorial monuments.
Ada Paterson notes sundials as the oldest timekeeping system predating Christianity with examples from Egypt, Indigenous peoples, and and Chinese innovations such as porch shadow clocks guiding watch regulation. The piece highlights pocket sundials and a Chinese watchmaker using porch shadows to tell time.
A punchy editor’s quip explains journalism as a man with a plug hat and no shoes who borrows money from newspaper men. The joke emerges from a father answering his son’s question about what a journalist is.
An irate customer accuses a trunk dealer of faulty moth proofing. The dealer defends the product, and the customer reveals his trunk was opened to find moths in his belongings. The anecdote ends with a humorous line about the proof being in the moth infestation.
A newly arrived Westerner in a New York street confronts a robber who threatens to shoot. The Westerner retorts that you can live in New York without brains but not without money, effectively defusing the confrontation with wit.
A London Academy quotation extols child reasoning over adult access to encyclopedias. It contrasts the child’s unerring logical faculty with the grownup’s burden of curated knowledge and reference books.
A noted physician links anger to stomach weakness and reduced appetite, urging fasting if anger recurs. A Philadelphia Record quip notes a woman’s dress knowledge surpassing a man’s worldly knowledge, followed by a cryptic remark about fame as perfume of heroic decades.
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