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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1888
Page
1
An editorial contrasts 1860s finances with 1880s, lauding Republican figures like Spalding Hooper Harris Shellabarger and Lovejoy. It argues for credit to wartime financiers and lawmakers who rebuilt public credit, currency and revenue, stressing young voters should know the party's financial achievements and the contrast to prior mismanagement.
The article recalls the era of diverse bank note systems from many states and private banks, the flood of greenbacks, and the push by Owen Lovejoy Thaddeus Stevens and Thon E G Spalding to end chaos with the 210 percent tax and the national banking law. It credits Sherman Harris Hooper Shellabarger and others for shaping wartime finance and notes the shift to a uniform national currency by 1880.
Harper's Weekly laments postmaster political abuse and predicts Cleveland’s 1892 defeat by wireworkers. The piece argues administration leaders must act against campaign work by officials, warning silence signals approval and could embolden officers nationwide. It closes with a cynical Almanac-like prophecies excerpt.
The Troy Times asserts the coming political contest will be vigorous but the Republican party should face it with cheerfulness and resolve. It argues national and state policy questions will spark unusual interest and urges citizens to study them independently, free of bias, trusting reason and reflection to determine the outcome.
The piece argues that a homebound trust can be regulated by law through protective tariffs, but if U S commerce opens to foreign dealers the nation would fall under courts and legislatures unable to control. It warns that trusts necessitate continued safeguards against their power.
The Indiana Democrats resisted the president's civil service reform plan, with White House complaints fading after a year. The Indianapolis Journal notes that Grandpa Jones and others have adopted a spoils system guise, risking clash with a congressional investigating committee.
The Boston Journal explains that shrewd Democratic congressmen believe the president will not veto the river and harbor bill because it includes many benefits for the South. A related motive shields presidential tolerance for costly southern public buildings at crossroads.
A detailed primer on establishing a coffee finca in Central America. It covers ground selection, soil, and slope, starting a nursery, planting, pruning, and weeding. It outlines mozo labor, supervision, pay, and social dynamics, then processing the coffee from cherry to gold, with grading by water and mechanical shells.
A collage of child chatter and schoolyard quirks from New York to Albany and Philadelphia. Jokes about language, ministers, slang, and classroom ranks paint a playful portrait of playful youths and puzzled parents.
A New York merchant who does extensive Cuba trade sent flowers to a Havana couple boarding a ship home. An office boy bought about $25 worth, but the two flower columns bore elegiac inscriptions saying We mourn your loss and Gone to another shore, implying tragedy.
A humorous exchange in Fair Play contrasts patrimony and matrimony with a colored shopper at a dry goods store who dismisses payment by imagining the basket is paid. The incident, recounted by the Washington Star, highlights social attitudes in a brief anecdote.
A magazine writer claims Japanese art is declining noting the average oil painting. a striking image of a long haired wild woman leaping space and grabbing a mud hen is cited as a favorite motif in Japanese art. The clipping also parodies domestic scenes and West travel satire with quips about punishment and a hotel napkin exchange.
A domestic quip about burglars failing to enter a house after the wife notes the husband’s snoring. The exchange features a humorous dialogue with a line about a balloon ride and a larkishly framed question, reflecting lighthearted period humor.
The lesson discusses Matthew 25 parables of the talents and virgins. It explains faithful use of gifts, diligence, and accountability, contrasting faithful service with neglect and self deception. The text links spiritual capital to action and warns of judgment for unfaithfulness.
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes evolving menswear with white pique fronts, tweed lounging jackets, longer four in hand ties, and a possible regency choker revival. London and Paris styles feature soft diagonal serge, knee breeches, and pastel gloves while modern shirts, Donegal homespun, English flannels, and new waistcoats reshape the season.
A mixed batch of notes covers gypsies in New York valued over 3.1 million, a San Diego crime vigilance committee, rabbit control in New Zealand with 12 million spent, U.S. capital in Hon duras gold mines, a Louisiana heiress now cotton picker, a proposed New York school for servant girls with 50 to 60 thousand dollars sought, and a town meeting in Lee New Hampshire where Rebecca Bennett presided as first woman moderator. Other items note a colossal redwood stump in Colorado, a London evening edition for a Paris morning paper, a Confederate gold dollar found in Atlanta, rabbit population anecdotes, crime statistics linked to marriage, a Blizzard era New York club dining on ham sandwiches, and rain drop size depending on height and disturbance.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla is praised as free from poisonous ingredients and made with care and cleanliness. It is prescribed by leading physicians, sold widely, and marketed as a medicine not a beverage. The ad asserts it reliably cures blood diseases when used as directed and notes its long, popular history with many testimonials.
In Mitchell Dakota Territory on May 5, 1888 at 10 a.m. the sheriff will sell the real estate of T W D Creswell in Mitchell to satisfy a judgment in favor of Thomas Fullerton George Fullerton and William Fullerton against T W Creswell J M Adams MF Dunham and Henry Ahern. The property is the undivided one half interest in lots three and nine in block thirteen of the original town of Mitchell. Sale at the courthouse front door by cash to the highest bidder.
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