South Dakota Insurance Comm confirms original statement copy
I H C Shober Commissioner of Insurance certifies the attached as a true copy of the original statement on file. Dated at Pierre February 20, 1902, with the office seal affixed.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1902
Page
6
I H C Shober Commissioner of Insurance certifies the attached as a true copy of the original statement on file. Dated at Pierre February 20, 1902, with the office seal affixed.
I, I W Seaman of Mitchell, urge readers to support Mayor Van Alstine. The city shows lasting improvements: gutters sewers and crosswalks on Main street, new foot bridges, a permanent dump ground, expanded water works, a hospital well, and extended sewer lines. The administration enforced laws fairly and left a healthy treasury, so changing leadership now would be a mistake.
Advertises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for itching piles and various injuries and eruptions. Claims thousands cured and guarantees cure with a 25 cent price per box. Sold by S. H. Scallin.
About 75 bushels of good potatoes offered for sale. Larger potatoes priced at 21.00 per bushel and smaller ones at 50 cents per bushel. Minimum sale 1 bushel.
A tale from Mexico shows a city jail's trick to ship tramps out as freight. Officials faced labeling hurdles for passengers, rates, and duties before classifying the men as perishable curiosities unfit to eat.
A Harvard man in Paris defeats a French club member with a swift punch after a face slap. The Frenchman later challenges him and the American uses a baseball as a weapon to wound the Frenchman's nose, ending the duel idea. The piece shifts to New York’s varied life and winter slumber among canal barges and crowded tenements. It notes a diverse little oriental hotel on Washington Street near a mixed immigrant neighborhood.
The Confederate camp flag was white with no stripes and the battle flag in the upper corner. It proved deficient in service as its white field caused confusion with a truce flag. On February 24, 1865 it was replaced by the final flag of the Confederacy with a red vertical outer half.
The guidebooks misstate Rome’s churches. The accurate count is 352 churches including four great basilicas outside the walls, plus about 918 chapels linked to monasteries nunneries schools and private palaces and many individual shrines. There are 68 monastic establishments comprising 42 for monks and 26 for nuns.
A London Globe correspondent recalls a gullible umbrella myth. During a light shower a man lacking an umbrella chased a friend and almost reached him, but the companion abruptly turned and, with a guilty look, forced the umbrella into his hands and disappeared.
In a grim inhouse tale the phrase here, a large hammer in a foundry toppled onto a worker's chest, killing him instantly. The report notes a deadly mishap and the incident’s shock among colleagues.
Notice from the South Dakota Davison County Court announces petitions for letters of administration for William H. Keck and Joseph T. Whealon. Hearings set for April 24 1902 and April 14 1902 respectively at the Mitchell courthouse. Interested parties may appear to contest. Dated March 27 1902.
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