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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1900
Page
9
Readable items cover visits, deaths, legal matters, and community notes from Mitchell South Dakota. Highlights include arrivals from Sioux Falls Minneapolis and Pierre, a McBride trial report, local deaths and funerals, farmers renting land, and Salvation Army meetings with Brigadier Halpin.
Mundane classifieds report a new hitching post installation on Main Street west of Railroad and Fourth. Notes include a birth in Everett, a coal theft arrest with fines, a doll display in a shop window, a Holiday trade ad expansion, a wedding at W B Sayles home, and a salpingo oophorectomy operation on Mrs A Walpole with positive recovery updates.
A sizable congregation gathered at the Congregational church Tuesday to test the revived furnace after Pastor Tomlin repaired it. George A. Sibby praised Tomlin, refreshments were served, and the event included a musical program and a collection to cover repair costs.
Rev. G. J. Corwin has moved from Platte to Ethan charge to be nearer his family. He is welcomed at both points and the change is endorsed as wise due to a new Platte church and limited local membership. Presiding Elder C. E. Hacer notes the adjustment.
A colonial vignette from Old Harbor Jamaica recounts a dressmaker trip gone awry when a boy accidentally hides a dress inside a buggy, plus brief anecdotes about Carnegie paying $5000 for five words, the old time physician, and a country hampered by lack of instruments. These short items reflect travel, humor, and nostalgia.
A vivid stage dialogue shows a beautiful actress refusing marriage to Mr. Frost because of his surname. He argues the name should not hinder love, citing Shakespeare and history, while she pleads inability to wed. The Chicago Times-Herald parries with a quip about tomorrow’s headlines.
A large dark vessel appeared in the Bosporus firing its guns, drawing awe and fear as the sultan and grand vizier quipped that it is the bark of the dogs of war while the opposition groaned.
Dialogue contrasts beginners in shooting with advice on eye use. The text then shifts to tartary customs noting onions as perfumes and a tartar lady applying onion to hands and face. A stray line mentions many shoes with rub in the United States.
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