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Newspaper
The Mellette County Pioneer
Location
Wood, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
9
A tense clash unfolds on deck as I seize control during a mutinous attempt. Watkins and his men break through to overpower guards, force the main hatch, and lock decisive strength against Cochose and his followers to avert disaster.
On the Namur a brutal mutiny erupts as Manuel Estevan and crew attempt to seize the ship. The English navigator Carlson and officer LeVere restore order by subduing a dominant pirate and rallying the crew to back the loyal officers.
The article notes the eastern Rhine slopes yield fine grapes with Johannisburger and Steinberger varieties grown south of the Rhine province. It highlights the Moselle valley as a prime vine region and also emphasizes the province’s substantial mineral wealth.
A reflective note proclaims that true wealth is having enough to be charitable, urging contentment and generosity as the measure of abundance. The saying emphasizes virtue over material possession and frames wealth as moral capacity.
H R McLean of Colorado Agricultural College advocates small, well cared for flocks. He warns against overfeeding in first days, promotes warm, clabbering skim milk with bread crumbs or chick feed, and stresses lice control and clean quarters for healthy growth.
A German professor calculates that abdications and dethronements in Germany total 278 royals. Prussia exiled 33 royals including the emperor and empress plus 20 princes and 11 princesses. Other small states such as Reuss Lippe Schaumberg Lippe Bruns wick also show sizable royal families in exile.
Women who served in war service roles such as yeomanettes, army nurses, and marine corps girls are eligible for American Legion membership. National headquarters announces formal notice after many inquiries. Plans begin to form the first women’s post and local posts will decide on affiliation with nurses or service men posts.
The New York state reconstruction commission warns a large scaled restart of tenement and home building is needed to stop a mass migration of workers. NYC faces a 100000 apartment shortage with far fewer building plans filed in 1918 than two years earlier and only a third of planned buildings completed.
Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago reports the widow alligator Desde Mona grieving after her mate died of influenza. Superintendent Cy DeVry arranges a new mate, Othello the blackamoor, captured in Florida jungles, hoping to end her long mourning.
The United States faces a yearly loss of one billion dollars due to destructive insects. 1916 figures show cereal crops suffering 438,204,300 in losses, hay 116,230,500, tobacco 16,900,800, vegetables 199,412,600, sugar 8,436,800, fruit 141,264,500, and other crops 29,649,000.
The poem portrays nature as a living temple where ocean, hills, forests, and skies offer prayer and praise. Natural phenomena become priests and rivers, winds, and rains compose hymns, urging humankind to feel reverence and humility before the natural world. The text elevates nature above a prayerless heart.
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance reports only 125 cases of total blindness among American forces in World War I with under 4,000 amputations. Some blindness cases are not yet permanent per medical officers. Officials deny any double arm and leg losses.
A Pennsylvania county agriculturist states bowlegs in growing children are caused by lack of milk. Walking early or too often has no effect. He urges that children should have at least one quart of milk daily from the time they begin walking until they are fully crawn.
The Little Journal notes rat hides can yield good leather for gloves mittens cloaks and parts of boots and shoes. It estimates 100 million rats in the country causing damage and suggests tanning rat skins could supply a taunery demand if 5,000 skins daily could be collected.
A brief humorous exchange shows Cholly asked if he will quit smoking. He replies that he will quit only when cigarettes kill him, at which point death would force the cessation. The joke hinges on dark irony and timing.
In a brisk exchange Dalton urges better personal appearance while DeBrake quips that the man refuses to make any more clothes, highlighting a humorous clash over style. The banter centers on attire as a reflection of character and practicality.
A dialogue contrasts gendered barroom behavior with male poker club schemes. The speaker reflects on marriage and longing, noting the shift from daily hope to an unavoidable pursuit of a desired partner. The piece hints at rules and dreams shaping adult relationships and social settings.
A collection of clipped phrases shows characters discussing a diamond engagement ring, a failed policy to never say die, a man’s role in a mechanical business, and a coconut of culinary barter with salmon and roe. The tone resembles wry exchanges from a local market scene.
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