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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1894
Page
7
The notice lists subscription rates and advertising pricing for The Mitchell Capital. It cites one year in advance at $1.00, six months at 50 cents, three months at 25 cents, with club and local ad rates. Marriage and death notices are free. obituaries and resolutions five cents per line. Various political and local items follow, including editor notes, editorials, and notices about public matters.
The Press and Dakotan warns the hospital for the insane may be spreading disease in Yankton and notes community pressure for improved sanitary work faces hospital management opposition. It urges that health and life should prevail over competing funding aims.
Congress has no further function to perform in regard to the admission of Utah. The constitution framed by the convention meeting next March must be submitted to the people for adoption.
William T. Coad of Rapid City reports from St. Louis that his rail line will link the Black Hills to the Missouri River. The route from Rapid City through the Hills to Mystic on the B M and M will tap Wyoming coal fields with future westward extension toward Milwaukee at Chamberlain, potentially forming a major system. The project, pursued through two years of depression, is urged for support as an entry to the hills.
The piece argues against closing state educational institutions as a cost-saving measure, warning it would harm the state’s reputation and offer little relief. It notes rising taxes next spring and suggests that any budget trimming by the legislature would only affect taxes in one to two years, with conditions likely to improve soon.
A discussion asks why Nebraska and Utah profit from beet sugar while South Dakota cannot. It cites Utah's beet sugar meeting a third of its territory demand, a factory paying 143000 to producers and 53000 for labor, and four million pounds of sugar produced. It notes McKinley tariff and producer bounty, parallels with Nebraska paying Oxnards a bounty and investing a million dollars in two plants at Norfolk and Grand Island.
The Minneapolis Journal advocates direct trade between the Black Hills and Twin Cities, aligned with local eastern South Dakota interests. It claims open seven-county lands west of the White river and Cheyenne are usable, urging trade via St Paul and Minneapolis rather than through Omaha.
A Chamberlain Democrat questions how the 1894 tariff bill could cause the 1892 hard times that ended Harrison’s presidency. The piece argues 1892 saw ample work and calls for shorter hours, noting the 1894 bill faced delays and that a Republican landslide of 1894–95 reshaped Congress without triggering swift economic improvement.
A vivid sale notice from Champeny Brothers promoting deep discounts on groceries and dry goods. Includes sugar syrup tea soap apples shoes and fabrics with prices listed in old currency style and a strong emphasis on mass markdowns and rubbers.
A large audience gathered in the Presbyterian church for a Thanksgiving union service. Rev N S Bradley gave extracts from his sermon stressing that Thanksgiving is an American tradition rooted in history and that true thankfulness rests on moral and intellectual growth alongside material prosperity. The program included readings by W J Graham and Teal, choral music, and a duet, with emphasis on balancing material gains with moral values.
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