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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
8
A court martial presented sentences to Queen Victoria for approval. One proposed death for desertion. The officer cited three desertions. The queen urged reconsideration. The soldier replied, "Hoe is certainly a very bad soldier, your majesty, but he may be a good man for all I know." The queen pardoned him by writing Pardoned.
Local briefs report visits in Badger and Beulah townships, school starts in districts 3 4 and at No 5 with Alice Saul teaching, and notable moves and happenings in Blendon Plano Union Badger and Union Center. Names include Ada and Belle Waugh Jno Berry’s father Wm Herbert Jr Alice Saul Lizzie Saul and Grace Cornwell.
An Adelaide era advertisement combines Hood's Pills with Hood's Bitters praising digestive health and non irritating action. Mentions Mrs Goman as Ward Academy matron and Helen as student. references Asa Kelcey visiting Brendon township. Also touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a healing remedy for sores and ulcers with a testimonial by L. O. Gale.
The Pall Mall Magazine contest chose 81 votes for Mr. Pater as best English prose stylist with others like Mardy Stevenson Ruskin Lang Froude Barrie Meredith Kipling and Conan Doyle following. The New York Times criticized the results as inconclusive and unworthy of serious judgment.
The account describes a Bedouin dwelling with round walls and a flat sod roof, a stark interior with mats and jars, and a baby found hanging from a ceiling bundle. It highlights extreme poverty, pastoral life, and the close bond between nomads and their goats and cows, with shepherdesses guiding small livestock.
The column notes national anthems by bar counts for countries from Buffalo Morning Times. It also markets Dr King’s New Discovery for La Grippe and Hasty Consumption, testimonial by James Jones of Jones & Son Cowden Illinois, with a free trial at Scallin’s drug store and a second product One Minute Cough Cure from L O Gale.
The Boston Transcript notes Queen Victoria’s accession stemmed from her place as the sole child of the brother next to William IV, amid a lineage of uncles and dynastic shifts. It explains how earlier dukes and royal marriage acts influenced the line of succession and Jacobite loyalties.
The Wizard of Menlo Park describes selling a patent to Western Union for $40,000 then facing a bank that would not honor the check. After intervention by Western Union staff, he received the funds in cash, split into two $20,000 wads, and began work on his Newark laboratory the next day.
An asylum doctor notes that lunatics laugh about twice as much as sane people. He recalls a patient whose continuous laughter marked the onset of madness after severe illness. Laughter after surgery is warned as a dreaded symptom and unchecked mirth may portend brain trouble.
A meditation on how a child in a caregiver's arms or carriage first recognizes a friend. The momentary smile and baby laugh reveal a pure instinct of love, seen by the child before experience and instruction shape later understanding.
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