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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1885
Page
8
The notice lists train services including passenger and freight, with daily runs and multiday exceptions. It names operators such as A. McCally and A. M., indicates routes like ROM VNG EAST, and notes specific nonrunning days including Monday and Sunday.
Delegate in oon Governor G A c Secretary M L McCormack Treasurer James Waymond Auditor E W Caldwell Surveyor General Marts Taylor Council of Public Instruction Aa O 8 Gifford Chief Justice of Supreme Court Dartert Rip Utica United States District Attorney John E Cariag d United States Marshal Dan Maratta
A fragmented OCR page lists county and city officials including J. K. Smith and W. C. Meteall, district court clerks, and various district commissioners. It also notes ward boards, educators, and multiple churches with service times and pastors such as Rev. J. Winegar and Rev. Anderson, plus Catholic mass schedules.
Washington correspondent reports congress will focus on Dakota Idaho Montana and Washington this winter. Democrats split over division and statehood with northern and southern Dakota voices to be heard in a general election. Key figures Boynton Smith Ziebach Day Grover Cleveland and local officials are cited amid a flurry of territorial politics and unrelated local notices.
A summary of diverse events across Dakota Territory includes plans for a third Plankinton paper, LO.G.1 lodge meeting in Woonsocket, and the Northwestern Poultry association gathering in Fargo. Ho se company No. 1 in Sioux Falls cleared 315 at a four day fair while a county poor farm expands via the Dunn farm purchase near Plankinton.
Local papers across South Dakota applaud the Mitchell Daily Republican after new ownership and Ralph W. Wheelock take charge. Readers note timely Associated Press dispatches, improved editorial vigor, and rising circulation as the paper modernizes.
A moral tract laments solitary vice as a dreadful habit destroying young men of talent and intellect, who might otherwise inspire crowds with eloquence or art, urging readers to call with full confidence for vigilance and reform.
Married persons and young men contemplating marriage are urged to seek relief for nervous debility or any disqualification. Drs. F. and J. invite confidential consultation, offering professional care and trusted honor.
A fragment warns that improper indulgences ruin life and marriage, tracing the affliction to youthful excess. It claims the body and mind derange, with loss of power, nervous irritability, indigestion, and possible death, urging vigilance against indulgence.
Readers warned about inexperienced pretenders using poisonous compounds on people over months. The notice urges immediate action to stop unsafe practices and protect health.
The passage notes that graduates from a prestigious US college effected remarkable cures for ailments such as ringing in the ears and head, nervousness, alarm at certain sounds, frequent blushing, and occasional mental derangement, allegedly cured immediately.
The doctors warn against improper indulgences and solitary habits that ruin mind and body. They list effects such as back weakness, headaches, blurred sight, loss of muscular power, heart palpitations, dyspepsia, nervous irritability, digestive derangement, debility, and consumption as dangers of early habits.
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