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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1893
Page
2
A Mitchell South Dakota column reviews the debate on beauty as a gift and its impact on intelligence and character. It argues that charm heightens appeal without harming inner strength and cites Napoleon and Josephine to illustrate differing fates. It urges practical homemaking instruction and swimming education for children.
An opinion piece argues that bicycle riding fits women who ride with grace and dignity. It praises young women for proper posture, control, and stylish attire while noting debutantes may be less suited to the wheel. The article lauds the American girl for mastering the bicycle despite its initial difficulty.
The article argues method as the key to home management. A systemic cook plans, preps, and threads tasks into one flow to serve meals promptly with minimal debris. It warns against overzealous, scattered effort and stresses prudence over brute force in housekeeping.
A physician noted a German law requiring drugs for internal use to be in round bottles and externally used medicines in hexagonal bottles. The remark underscored safeguards against poisoning and labeled the rule as wise.
The builder offers a ready furnished living space with range furnace sideboard china cabinets window seats and shelves included. Buyers need only furnish rugs china chairs tables and bric a brac to complete the home.
In a curious scene Clara-tin drops a small paper clip describing a guide to cleaning rag car pets. Jiora-Horrors reacts unsure, and Clara reveals the note explains how to clean rag car pets.
A fragment from the Chicago Inter-Ocean notes a couple drawn together by love and poverty. She believes a bargain awaits while he claims only a remnant of his fortune remains, highlighting a mismatch of expectations in a wary esteem.
The Parisian test of strength saw ten coltin eure workers carry a 100 kilogram load from Rue Feydeau at 3 AM to Corbeil twenty miles away. Jean Labasse, 24, won by finishing in fourteen hours, reaching Corbeil at 10 PM after a long arduous journey with the heavy sack.
An extended sketch argues that British governance has transformed India into a vast empire with railways telegraph lines and schools while native poverty remains extreme. It weighs the wealth of colonial administration against the hardships of huts, shortages, and high official salaries. It recounts the rise of the East India Company and the governor generalship, and notes unrest in Bombay among Muslims and Hindus.
A bas-relief fragment from Egypt depicts obelisks loaded on a galley towed by small boats. The quarrying method splits a monolith by scoring with grooves and inserting pegs that swell with water, enabling detachment from the rock before transport.
A scientific writer notes night favors growth in plants and animals as well as children. Daytime activity taxes the system with waste disposal while sleep allows extended repair and rapid development. The piece concludes that invalids require much rest and sleep.
A hog at Fenn Manor Bucks County Pennsylvania lost a rear leg when a train cut it off Vets strapped a wooden leg to the stump and the animal now runs as freely as its brothers.
The New York Advertiser outlines colossal ocean measures from gallons and cubic miles to diameters and distances. It compares the Pacific and Atlantic sizes, gasps at sphere and pipe scales, and laments sun heat while presenting a playful crown analogy for earth and sea surfaces.
A collection of moral maxims and reflections from Frances E Willard Franklin Jerrold and Matthew Henry. The notes touch on charity, education, vocation, solitude, faith, and the shaping of character through effort.
A red headed man claiming to be Dr William Shepherd rushed into Charlestreet police station New York and requested commitment to an island for sobriety after saying he spent 175 dollars on beer and his wife has left him under watch. He was sent to Jefferson Market Court and ordered imprisoned until sober. A stray final sentence on marriage and tuition ends the page.
A New York arena hears of a well known horse owner Williams who fell into heavy drinking. The horse guided the wagon to the police station where the drunken farmer was later fined ten dollars or sixty days in jail. He paid the fine and never spoke to the horse again.
The Siamese custom honors the dead with candles set afloat at full moon in October and November. A simple plantain leaf raft holds a taper, launched on the Menam River to drift toward the sea, carrying messages to departed loved ones under the rising moon.
A young man admires a composite photograph said to depict a strong yet gentle young woman. The reveal shows the image is from Smith College graduating class and that forty nine other faces share the same portrait. A social note adds a remark from a young lady who enjoys seeing a portrait of all her intimate friends at once.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote notes a minister’s sermon being praised as wide but a visitor points out the length. A second item captures a teacher quizzing Willie on coat buttons, Willie replying the mother knows where they are on his father’s trousers.
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