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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1899
Page
5
The notice lists advertising rates for business cards and locals with pricing, legal notices at statute rates, cards of thanks and obituaries priced per line, and free marriage and death notices. It reads Friday April 7 1899.
The April issue of The Monthly South Dakotan marks a year with a state chronology from 1681 to 1899 and praises South Dakota regiments in the Philippines while noting losses at Manila. Local promoters move to form Yankton Missouri and Black Hills railway with $5,000,000 capital, and editors discuss potential promotional trips for Iowa reporters to attract settlers.
Watertown honors Lieut Frank H Adama killed at Marilos while Yankton Elk Point and Canton vote on local issues. A B L Kittredge retires from active politics, C N Herried to serve as national committeeman. State land sales show higher prices and larger acreage, signaling growing farming profitability and resident purchases.
A West Virginia man reports his wife suffered a long rheumatism attack, bedridden and unable to walk. After using Chamberlain Pain Balm as directed, she rose and walked to breakfast the next morning and has not had a similar attack since. Sold by L. O. Gale.
Persian educated medical missionary Joseph Kashaba will lecture on Persia and its people at the M A church on Thursday evening April 8 at 8 o clock under the college Y W C A. Admission 25 cents, children 10 cents. He will wear native costume and sing in his native tongue, providing a rare cultural presentation.
Deputy Land Commissioner T. K. Blanchard of Mitchell talked with the Journal on raw prairie pricing. In Turner county prices reached 29.50 per acre with others around 25, 21.50 in Yankton and Bon Homme, while Grant and Roberts counties saw high sums. He notes buyers are often seasoned farmers and demand is rising across the state.
The London Times and Edinburgh Review editor Henry Reeve records gossip about Sydney Smith and Macaulay in his Memoirs and Correspondence. A dinner tale features Smith mocking Macaulay as a “book in breeches” and praising his memory while joking about Lethe to dull overretentive recall.
In a humorous vignette from Short Stories a kindly mistress encounters a washerwoman distressed by a harsh budget. She earns six dollars weekly but pays eight for board, revealing a comic yet telling crisis of living costs and poverty in a parlor conversation.
European nations differ greatly in bread intake. The French eat about two pounds daily, roughly 705 pounds yearly, while Scandinavians average around 65 pounds per year. Climate appears to influence per capita consumption.
A London Telegraph report exposes how some manufacturers fill bed linens with moisture attracting chemicals through zinc sulphate of magnesia spray. A 50 pound lot weighs more after processing, padding profits but risking dampness and chills for buyers. The piece warns of similar tricks by blanket and pane makers, urging awareness of adulterated textiles.
Mr Miles Menander Dawson, a consulting actuary and life insurance author, says in an interview that one-fifth to one-half of deaths in youth and middle age could be prevented by sanitary conditions and social action. He cites zymotic, digestive, respiratory, consumption, and nervous diseases as largely preventable, and argues heredity and united action could extend healthy life and age reach.
An account from Harpers Weekly details elephant hunting in Nubia. Hunters track elephants into forest retreats and approach with extreme stealth, then deliver a decisive back sinew cut to sever arteries, causing rapid death from hemorrhage.
In recollections from Jack Crooks, Jimmy Galvin excelled at catching base runners asleep on the bags. He once deceived Johnny Ward with a four ball sequence, letting Ward trot to first before Galvin feigned nothing while Beckley blocked Sam. The stunt, a feather in his cap, amused the bench.
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