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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1893
Page
5
In Mitchell South Dakota MITCHELL PRINTING Co presents items on matrons and maidens, fashion, and health. It cites a London doctor urging rest for society women amid a critique of overwork, fragile nerves, and fads. It includes tips for girls and a discussion of sleeping car reforms and dress reform, plus notes on walking and self-care.
The text explains that a stiff posture with an extended chest and immovable upper body, plus knee-driven movements, causes awkward walking. Tight shoes and high heels worsen the stance, turning the figure displacefully. Short brisk walks help, but long distances lead to extreme fatigue.
A Philadelphia bachelor of recognized taste remarks that a woman's style should align with one or two becoming dresses. When she changes colors daily from blue to yellow to red, her individuality yields to the gown, resembling a kaleidoscope of fashion plates.
A fashion column notes the current jet trend in fabrics from silk to velvet, with new blouse yokes of lace striped grenadine and plains. It discusses awa cloth underskirts, fuller sleeves especially at the elbows, bishop sleeves with trim, and a return to shorter street skirts for practical outdoor wear. The hair is advised to stay up, as a low style is less dignified, while upcoming season fashions lean formal with stiffer materials alongside softer fabrics.
An English post official recalls visiting America where servants refuse tips for boot cleaning, until a Western Union official offers half a dollar. The host accepts, and the boots are polished by the servants who later learn the cleaner was the guest the whole time. The anecdote highlights independence observed by American servants.
The article surveys hog feeding methods and efficiency, comparing steamed warm grain to raw, and ground versus soaked grains with skim milk. It notes pigs fed with skim milk gain more weight, and that feeding efficiency varies with fattening stage, while manure management emphasizes spreading to improve soil moisture, aeration, and fertility. It also highlights keeping a few thoroughbred sheep as a stable early cash source and pasture cleaner, with woolsales aiding farm liquidity and sheep contributing to manure quality.
The author advocates spring salt applications to wheat fields, notes English results from fall pre-seeding treatments, warns that excess brine harms soil for a year or two before recovery, and prefers applying after winter rains and before plant needs to repels in-
A farmer reflects on hay production shifts from scythe and pitchfork to mechanical harvesters. Portable efficiencies let a boy cut ten acres daily, with wagons and loaders streamlining collection. He notes April 1 as a typical sowing date for wheat with clover risk considerations and praises improved field productivity.
The item argues readers miss profit by neglecting papers and studying methods to boost pork production and efficiency. It quotes a Stockman advising porkers to slaughter after holidays, describesfatting sheep and lambs, and notes younger animals gain faster. practical tips on feeding and timing.
In a rural scene Mrs. Flaherty defends her daughter Cely’s slow schooling while neighbors tease the youngster’s talent for procrastination. The teacher, amused, notes Cely’s great knack for postponing tasks, and Mrs. Flaherty imagines a platform moment when Cely leads the class.
A collection of short items from Shepherdstown mortality quirks to clergy counts, parishioner costs, and urban density notes. It covers a mayor fining himself for cow trespass, Roetors vs clergymen mortality rates, British drunkenness bills, Ravenstein on Earth’s carrying capacity, global city counts, rolling stock costs, Palisades settlements, a Cincinnati circus survivor recalling slave prices, a Kansas town reducing seven ministers to one, and a critique of American influence by London Truth.
Historic reports describe dozens of derelict vessels roaming the Atlantic near the equator and along regular routes. One famed case, the bark Ocean, drifted from the western track toward Bermuda after months at sea. The Maine schooner White sailed 5000 miles in ten months to Scotland, reported by passing ships forty five times.
A faded home care column offers practical advice on kitchen and household upkeep. It covers lemon peels for brass, salt clarifying scrubbing, ammonia turpentine emulsion for paint, ammonia borax for window cleaning, soda for glass tumblers, and using a soft rag to refresh wallpaper. It stresses thorough rinsing, drying, and avoiding soap in glass washing. It also warns dingy dishcloths invite pests and emphasizes drying to keep a clean, healthy house.
A Paul Pioneer Press report describes Theodore Lee seeking experimental arm grafts. He plans donor arms from a healthy person, potentially linked to a coerced or desperate arrangement, with staged operations to attach and connect arteries and nerves, hoping for circulation and function after grafting.
A patient gravely ill from alcohol withdrawal lies unconscious on a hospital cot in the Pennsylvania Hospital. A bell clangs, a new patient is brought in beside him, and a young girl laments calling him papa as her voice echoes through the corridor. Two days later the man regains some sight while the other bed remains empty.
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