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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1898
Page
8
The report outlines telegraph traffic costs for wartime alerts, US aims to claim the entire Philippine group, and projected troop deployments to Cuba and Porto Rico. It notes allowances for veterans to keep arms, proposed relic sales, and a Toledo bicycle parade fatality.
The joint high commission at Quebec considers settling long standing disputes and new frictions between the United States and Canada. Topics include fisheries, Alaska Northwest boundary, wrecks and salvage, mining rights, seal wars, bonded railway privileges, immigration style laws, canal access, and cross border extradition. Outcomes hinge on mutual concessions and practical detail work.
The article surveys statewide elections in multiple states on November 8 and the impact on control of the United States Senate, noting which legislatures elect Senators and the broader political stakes with parties and candidates named in several states. It also includes a humorous poetry and humor column section titled LET US ALL LAUGH with a sequence of jokes and anecdotes.
A reflective piece explores ingratitude among recipients of charity and the burden on well meaning donors. It recounts Miss S supporting a needy family with $5 monthly only to face a deceitful beneficiary, illustrating how charity can invite suspicion and social judgment. The excerpt links moral tests of generosity to stories from New Orleans Times-Democrat and a Victorian anecdote about Keats at Inverary castle.
The article details vast fruit plantations in Jamaica owning 28 000 acres with 16 000 under lease, producing bananas coconuts and other fruits for export via 12 company steamers. Missouri hosts a 2200 acre orchard by a Missouri Horticultural Society syndicate with 1000 peach 23000 apple and 2000 pear trees. It also notes Barbara California orchard owned by Elwood Cooper with 1700 acres and thousands of nut and fruit trees. Queen Marguerite of Italy and Queen Christina of Spain are cited as tobacco smokers with vivid personal habit against a backdrop of royal indulgence.
References recall that Burns and Keats visited Inverary, where Burns found himself neglected amid a large Duke of Argyll guest list. The late Lord Tennyson’s visit is also noted in these historical recollections.
A diverse set of notes reports on a Swedish Salvation Army unit, curfew ideas in Kansas towns, Chinese rail obstacles near Peking, photography-based surveys in Canada, canned medicines replacing pills, a stone inscription in Ireland, Japanese pyro技 birds, New Orleans streetcars electrifying, a Maryland oysterman’s bottle fish, changes in ship figureheads, 1897 Liverpool cattle losses, and Moscow’s 1764 municipal hospital saving Napoleon’s retreat era.
In a brisk exchange, Baxter frets about collecting money owed from Hardrocks. Mrs. Baxter worries, while talk turns to a boy’s ambition and a claimed old master painting. Parvenue touts a guarantee about the painter’s age and mastery, as legal matters about inherited property surface in the conversation.
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