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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1892
Page
5
Fragments from a Ladies Corner column discuss motherhood, aging, and feminine roles. The piece critiques politeness to infants, offers tips on hair growth and care, and weaves in quotes from various authors and public figures about women, kindness, and presence. It also lists brief biographical notes about notable women and their activities.
In a candid talk the group discusses the difficulty of finding new jokes and the ethics of joke sourcing. Moran explains many jokes come from papers and performers worry about repeats. A participant offers twenty dollars for genuinely fresh gags as the crowd recalls craft, theft, and the value of originality.
A tale shows Edmund Burke consulting a Bedlam patient during Hastings indictment preparations. The inmate, calm in speech, reveals breakfast consisted of hobnails, provoking Burke into a wary retreat amid protest of mistreatment. The anecdote underlines the line between madness and reason.
A North Mahoning township farmer had spare phosphate from a purchase made months ago. Several pounds remained in a barrel unused and stored on his property.
The tale recalls sea adventures from the English Channel era with Captain Davis steering a butter cargo past pirates. The pirates board, the crew uses slippery decks to outmaneuver them, and the heroes capture the attackers, returning to port at a cost of butter. A side note quotes Maxam criticizing sport fishing and calling trout murder as cruel and unnecessary.
A Uniontown youth wrote to a Greene County landowner about a price for a Uniontown lot. The reply arrived in an envelope turned inside out, later found to be the sender’s own letter. The man, reputedly worth at least $15,000, reused envelopes, reflecting the era’s frugal stinginess. The dispatch notes a law against reusing estate stamps.
A summering woman in the Catskills recounts overheard hotel dialogue about bed linen and service. The chambermaid defends servants, noting incivility stems from harsh treatment and kindness by guests. The tale mirrors a New York Tribune quotation on class and service.
A compact history notes the Egyptians inventing papyrus around 1730 C C and the Chinese developing silk paper by mid seventh century B C. It credits China with ink and pencils, while Europe kept iron stylus and reed until the goose quill began service in the sixteenth century B C. It adds a quip about aging and friendship across worlds.
A Chicago Tribune summary describes a dairy production belt spanning northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and all Iowa. It highlights Cedar Rapids and Elgin as central markets, creameries and cheese factories, and farmer milking, testing, and selling milk locally. The piece notes shifts in farming toward pasture and dairy, with ensilage and forage shaping future prosperity.
A Newtown farmer recalls a tale told to a New York Evening Sun man about a kite message asking if it would rain. Sparrows pecked the paper, leaving only the name Henry E Smith which read yes, but a thunderstorm that night produced no rain and the next morning the sparrows perched in a tree nearby.
A partial extract describes a fatal strike with blame directed at a single party. The text is garbled but mentions a person being struck and killed for lying, noting this is not the first such incident. No clear names, places, or dates are readable in the fragment.
An overview from Youth’s Companion discusses sodium chloride as essential for animals and humans. It details salt’s influence on digestion, tissue changes, and thirst suppression, noting risks of insufficient intake with vegetable-heavy diets and the aiding effect of salt in milk for children.
A discussion of star counts from naked eye to great telescopes. It estimates visible stars at a point, with about 6 000 seen naked eye, 2 100 around the poles unseen, and up to 70 000 000 with large instruments. It notes magnitudes and the distribution of first to seventh magnitude stars and ends with the Sun racing through space.
A veteran sailor urges that those who handle ropes learn the true art of knot tying to prevent accidents. He says every child should learn two scientific hitches and that sailors must master knots as vital as swimming, noting careless ties risk losing clothes overboard.
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