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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1909
Page
5
Practical household hints cover thinning mucilage with vinegar testing beef by thumb press and using salt with vinegar for copper. Many tips on cleaning mildewed books polishing aluminum and wood, preserving lemons, and improving cooking and ironing.
A Washington inventor unveils a device to silence roosters within city limits. The muzzle aims to kill the crow but spare the rooster, pending official sanction.
August Werner a Berlin merchant visiting Raleigh argues Americans fall into two classes the traveled and the untraveled. He says the untraveled are narrow minded and overly patriotic while praising the United States as great but not flawless offering a traveling anecdote about a sleeping car conversation to illustrate his point.
A collection of anecdotes argues that persistent hard work, rather than luck, fuels achievement. Figures from Johnson and Dante to Darwin and DaVinci are cited as examples, linking discipline, daily effort, and study to lasting fame and progress.
In a recent interview with Mrs June German a veteran actress who died last week she recalls life on the road sixty five years ago. She describes Chicago stage days in a drafty hall with unpaved streets and dark Ways lit by lanterns then coach travel to Galena where open wagons carried performers and trunks. Breakfast at a rough station offered wild turkey pork chops buckwheat cakes and prairie tea rather than coffee or tea. The memory centers on the wild turkey that lingered in her mind.
In Harper’s Weekly a steamship president chats with an elderly pilot amid a perilous channel. The boss asks if the pilot knows the danger spots, the pilot says no, and the president is puzzled until the pilot explains he knows where the bad places aren’t.
A Kansas druggist refuses to sell whisky to a sick stranger citing strict new state law. The man asks what he can buy whisky for, and the pharmacy replies they only sell whisky for snake bites, noting a single snake in town is booked for three weeks.
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