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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
6
Dr Rea specialist from Louisville leads a one day only stop at Mitchell House on Thursday November 1. He touts vast experience with 4000+ patients and claims rapid, guaranteed diagnoses within five minutes and cures for a wide range of maladies across all ages and both sexes.
The article compares French cavalry and artillery to United States regiments. It lauds French horse quality, with half bred barbs and Norman and Breton mounts praised for work and suitability. French artillery is extolled for effectiveness, with detailed gun weights and shells, while US units are noted as less pristine though capable. The piece also mentions nutrition for consumptives and a humorous note from Strand Magazine.
Mr. Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory near Boston reports that clouds between 1,000 and 9,000 feet rise at about 60 miles per hour in summer and 110 miles per hour in winter. The fastest cloud measured moved 2380 miles an hour.
A column discusses women's fashion and the Cosmpolitan critique of trousers for men, then shifts to railway vibration nuisances and a humorous obituary vignette about a New Hampshire farmer who recalls his wife Mary in funeral duties. The collection blends social opinion, travel discomfort, and small personal tragedy.
A Georgia inventor’s flying machine fails as a man is injured and a millpond swallows the contraption. A second item notes Juggernaut festival deaths as mainly accidental. The tallest British captain, Oswald Ames, stands over six feet. An armor hoard from the crusades is found in Constantinople.
A crop of brief items covers visits, birthdays, school progress, and local comings and goings across West Perry, Ethan, Badger, Blendon, Plano, and surrounding communities. A Ackley visitor, Mrs Wales birthday party, school visits by Browne, farm activity, cattle moves, and weather hints illustrate rural life with names like Timm, Wales, Drake, Browne, and Fergen in a mosaic of Oct 26 27 updates.
Thursday's wheat market report from Minneapolis notes No. 2 Northern wheat closing at 60 5/8 to 61 1/4 dollars per bushel with flax at 1.033 and corn at 2.53 per bushel. The brief item lists closing values for the grain suite as of October 28.
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