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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1899
Page
7
A fashion note lists desirable new color options including tans grays whites and blacks with trimmed finishes. It highlights fashionable contrasts and mentions special trims like braid details and HOA styling cues.
Gov Lee proclaims May 9 Arbor Day to beautify the state. The South Dakota regiment, with Iowa and Nebraska troops under Gen Hale, attacked insurgents at Calumpit, leading the charge and taking heavy casualties, with five killed and nine wounded. The Associated Press notes the unit bore the brunt of the engagement and won praise from officers. Names of the fallen and injured were not released.
A reader testifies that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured a severe cough after trying the product following newspaper advertisements. The note credits ease of cold relief and praises the medicine as the best. The Herald from Andersonville, Ind, notes availability through L. O. Gale.
The prairie blaze began in Tobin township Tuesday and burned through Todin Lisbon and Beulah townships. Firefighters and rain pushed the flames to extinction by Wednesday night after nine miles west to the Milwaukee track. About 30 tons of hay or straw were consumed along the path.
Fire swept through Lisbon township burning several vacant buildings and five bridges. Farm crews fought the blaze, saving property. Names such as Gil Stevens Bob Livingston and Will Wilkinson appear among the burned, though some could not be secured. County costs will rise from bridge damage. Also notes an advertisement for Dr King’s New Life Pills and a Davison County eighth grade final exam schedule for May 12 and 13, 1899.
Odd Fellows commemorated the 80th anniversary of their Baltimore-founded order with a joint celebration in Fulton Alexandria and Mitchell. A parade, corn palace program, banquet for about 200, and a late dance featured Rebekah hospitality and Rathbun’s orchestra, marking the first in a trio of annual regional observances.
Funeral services were held Thursday for Frank Howard and Albert Smith who perished in Tuesday’s prairie fire. Howard, a Lisbon township resident and farmer, left a wife and four children. his burned pocket book and silver watch were recovered, and his bills will be replaced by the treasury. Smith, a former University of Lisbons student, was mourned at the Methodist church with university attendance and remarks from local figures. both were laid to rest in Graceland cemetery.
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