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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1906
Page
4
A New York Sun piece contrasts old hand organ work with the modern piano street organ. It notes the monkey helper disappeared, collectors now face higher costs, and money comes from tall buildings through royal looks and paper wrapped gifts, likening it to a lottery with mostly pennies and occasional nickels.
Dick Corbett schemes to win Kitty Hazell from Michael Fenwick by intrigue and betrayal. A brutal clash at sea ends with Corbett vanishing as the Erl King founders. Michael survives and, later rescued, reunites with Kitty who helps him recover.
Robert Watchorn the immigration commissioner notes varied immigrant types arriving in New York. He describes Germans from remote states as naive and recounts a Berlin girl seeking letters at the pier, joking exchanges over business or love letters. He adds a tidbit about Spain’s coinage and mentions foot shuttlecock as a Chinese pastime.
The Review of Reviews outlines Nevada’s mineral wealth as Tonopah, Goldfield, and Bullfrog rise into booming towns. It notes a mineral belt from California to the Colorado border, with Tonopah valued at about 50 million and Goldfield home to around 10,000 residents as the desert yields wealth unseen since the Comstock lode.
Harper's Weekly recounts a young wife with little domestic experience who fears tradespeople and limits orders. A ash collector visits, mispronounces his job, and she coldly replies she does not care for any today, illustrating her misunderstandings and pride.
A child named Julia in Lippincott's tale asks who lights the moon and is told God hangs and takes it each night. She fears rain will spoil the moon and worries Ded forgot to take it in. In a second item, Sydney A. Inglund of Manchester is fined $50 in Bradford for riding a motorcycle at seventy mph.
Practical notes on making a long bar sawhorse with end crosspieces for short logs, plus a series of farm advisories on ginseng, poultry manure handling, winter feeding planning, meat consumption balance, and poultry disease prevention. Includes practical farming anecdotes and guidance on planting, market methods, and breed notes for Lakenvelder fowls.
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