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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1891
Page
1
The columnless fragment discusses President Harrison at Cape May and notes the Washington government in place. It mentions Maryland Alliance actions, a turn toward endorsing a Democratic Governor candidate, and references to British press commentary and farm profits forecasts from the American Agriculturist.
The public cares little how many grain gamblers go broke in Chicago but swing in prices is tied to a farmers market trend. Monday's wild moves produced roughly 20 cents a bushel impact for the grain producer.
The piece calls out Donn Platt for attacking the memory of Gen. Garfield and notes his reputation for vilifying dead rivals. It also discusses current political forecasting, with emphasis on northern candidates and a Republican nomination process guided by a representative convention and merit-based canvassing.
The Dell Rapids Times reports eastern papers warn against druggists substituting home made nostrums for trusted patent medicines. It notes papers are sending extra copies to protect the public while accusing manufacturers of exploiting the advertising tactic.
The author attacks the plutocratic press for attacks on a Republican paper, claiming such tactics provoke Alliance members to boost Ruralist circulation. He labels the press as manipulators who exploit personal abuse to prop up failing ventures and mocks reform efforts by financiers in the Argentine Republic.
Washington August 19 Acting Indian affairs commissioner forwards instructions to the Chippewa Commission chairman Hall. Hall to travel to Minnesota to remove Chippewas to White Earth with 200000 for removal expenses 23000 for lumber 16000 for commission expenses and cash payments totaling 150000 for the reservoir fund.
In St Paul on August 19 Hon H C Stivers Rep Crow Wing county Rep G W Benner Dexter Mower county and Sen Henry Keller Stearns county said an extra session to appropriate for the world’s fair would be unwise and unlikely to pass. Keller and Stivers offered to head a $100 subscription. J S Prince opposed an extra session and urged raising funds by popular subscription with $100,000 in engraved certificates and 100,000 patriotic subscribers.
Minnesota editors gathered for an annual encampment at a charming location with Monday activities including an editorial baseball match a carriage drive and professional papers. The first issue of Outing was produced by the excursionists and will appear daily during the encampment.
Commuted to life imprisonment are David Jacobs and Mrs. Mary Johnson of Chesterfield after Governor Tillman reprieved them on the gallows as the sheriff prepared to hang.
Berlin dispatch to The Times reports the Reichsanzeiger view that distress from grain price rises is overstated. It notes winter sown rye is projected to yield about 82 percent of an average harvest, suggesting limited impact on supply.
In Chicago South Shore on August 19 two police officers faced Nathan Whitfield a former saloon keeper who scaled a three story building on Ninetieth and Strand. A crowd of 200 300 watched as Whitfield fought back tearing a coat and flinging a club before officers McNamara and Rowan subdued him and he was strapped at the station.
Aurora county citizens plan a Gothic grain palace as a feature of a Sept. 15 to 19 harvest celebration at Plankinton. The project aims to showcase grain decorations and unify South Dakotans in a major state event. The Plankington community pledges broad support to elevate the state's harvest festival.
Alfred Ling, a Mendota market gardener, digging a well thirty feet deep, uncovered a box of baked clay or stone, pipe stone beads, fibre strands, twenty dating coins from 1815 to 1824, a silver buckle, six metal buttons with R. D. G. inscribed. He plans to present the find to the State Historical Society. Austria appraises Russia cavalry beyond Austria Hungary. Russia 782 squadrons. Austria 841. frontier tension unsettles Galicia residents. Denied pairing of Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk Railways by Van Horne. A black man was killed by a train near Campen South Carolina. injuries indicate foul play elsewhere.
In Indianapolis on August 19 W B Prescott and W S McClevey announced the tally from the International Typographical Union vote. Among 12,896 ballots 9,340 supported a nine hour workday and 3,356 opposed, short of the two thirds required for adoption. The union's 29,813 members were eligible.
The mutilated body of Dennis McCue, 56, prominent Rockford, Illinois, citizen, was found in the Racine River. He was last seen Friday night and weighed heavily with money. Coroner's jury investigates foul play and possible dismemberment by a steamer wheel.
Reports from Point Lane Oregon describe Mount Hood erupting with visible smoke. Residents say the mountain shows renewed activity with fires, earthquakes reported around 5 pm, and locals alarmed by the eruption of the Cascades landmark about sixty miles from Portland.
A severe scarlet fever outbreak in Milwaukee county insane asylum prompts complete quarantine. Twenty eight cases reported with no deaths so far as patients are isolated to prevent spread. Nearby reports include Dr Draper stroke and other regional updates.
A blazed path two blocks wide and six long engulfed Jacksonville starting at R. D. Knight & Co. and Hubbard building, spreading to Tremont hotel and Seminole club. Loss about 1 million with insurance half. firemen exhausted. Other notes report fires in Waco Texas and St. Louis Missouri and unrelated military and labor items.
At the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris a jury of leading experts awarded Wheeler & Wilson the highest prize for sewing machines, with the French government honoring Nathaniel Wheeler with the Legion of Honor. The No 9 for home use and No 12 for manufacturing are hailed as the world’s best. Agents sought nationwide.
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