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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1887
Page
5
Reasonable goods at Weil Bros promise low prices across dry goods, charts, clothing, boots and shoes. Every customer treated well as the store advertises season discounts and Butterick pattern agency status. Come and see the bargains this season at Weil Bros.
A flurry of notices reports a push for subscribers across towns and counties, local loans and sales, and holiday efforts. Rumors abound that Mitchell will become the Catholic Church see city with Bishop Marty’s arrival and plans for a cathedral and bishop’s residence.
Advert says avoid fake remedies and insist on Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs, and colds. Trial bottles offered free at L. O. Dale’s drug store.
Delayed Milwaukee line collision near Calmar yesterday killed a fireman James Brannigan and cost engineer Charles Loup a leg after being pinned in wreckage for two hours. Express Messenger C D Neece was badly hurt and taken home on a stretcher. Conductor Hank George ignored revised time cards leading to the crash between two passenger trains on the Racine and Southwestern division.
An advertising block extols lung health and warns of airway obstructions from various illnesses. It promotes Boschee's German Syrup as the one sure remedy, available from druggists for 75 cents a bottle, claiming success even after other methods fail.
Special services of a grand nature will be held at the Catholic church on Christmas Day. Solemn high mass begins at 5 o clock with a 8 o clock and 10 30 high mass to follow. The choir led by Mrs Lynch will present fine music including Mozart's 12th mass at the 5 o clock service. The program continues with further performances.
The well known Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Company in San Francisco promises cleansing and toning of the system and relief from headaches colds fevers constipation and digestive ills tied to weak kidneys liver and bowels. Sold locally by B. I. Seltin.
A Bridgewater report to the Sioux City Journal notes a Sunday concert at the Mitchell M E church led by Prof. Blackman, voice instructor at Mitchell University, with Misses Katie and Zettie Day assisting. The event drew good attendance for short notice and hints at Zettie Day's future as a fine singer for Dakota.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a gentle, effective laxative to cleanse the system, relieve headaches and fevers, and aid digestion. It promotes the product as manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company in San Francisco and sold by S. H. Seallin.
Readers fault the new Milwaukee road time card for reducing Sunday service and forcing Chicago travel, signaling rider dissatisfaction with timetable changes and its impact on weekly trips.
A fragment notes travel by snow banks in northern Iowa being worse than taking the shortcut to the Council Bluffs line. It mentions cold weather and difficult road conditions affecting a regional route.
Invitations issued for 300 guests as Resurgam Lodge No. 31 A F and A M plans its fifth annual banquet in the Champeny building Friday. Sioux Falls band to provide music. committees named for arrangements reception invitation floor with local and out of town brethren expected to attend.
Contests scheduled for hearings before the register and receiver at Mitchell land office. Cases include Vaught vs Bailey in southeast 27 107 67 with Feb 10 1888 10 am, and many others across sw 11 104 62 to ne 11 108 68 with various March 1888 dates. Sessions under Hg and lg designations list multiple land parcels and parties.
The eighty owned by Mary Nicholson in Rosedale will be disposed of through a raffle once tickets sell. Proceeds and a land deed will be placed with Geo. E. Foster until the drawing. The infant Cleveland Wickham Nicholson, grandson of Robert Nicholson, will be baptized at the M E church on the third Sunday in the new year with many invitation cards issued.
The list shows uncalled letters at the Mitchell post office. Names include Rosie Allen, Mrs Rosie Butler, Mr Robert Brown, Francis Blacksley, Miss May Candly, Daniel Coyley, Lauren Dunlap, J I Ela, Mr James Ervin, Rey Heath, Ira Liebenstien, Emma Henning, Chas Litsey, Martin Maloney, C Oishire, G W Pratt, Samuel Rushton, Esther Richards, George Rollow, Teirnen, Mr Webb, Tree. Advise “advertised.” If not claimed in two weeks, items go to the dead letter office.
In brief, the ad claims Green's August Flower reforms indigestion caused by greasy or bad food and worry. It asserts the medicine makes Americans healthy and happy, urging readers to ask their druggist for a bottle for seventy five cents.
Catarrh cure promises health and sweet breath with Shiloh’s remedy priced at fifty cents. Nasal injector included free. Sold by L. O. Gale.
The report describes a busy city scene with promenading couples, a snow bank on Main Street, and mules collapsing from sun stroke while hauling ice. It notes changing weather chatter, a moonlight picnic by Firesteel, and a delayed Omaha train at Spencer. Rail conditions worsen as heat warps ties and trains run late in multiple directions.
A fire at A E Fuller’s harness shop in a Dean brothers frame building broke out between 6 and 7 am Tuesday after a lamp toppled. Fire crews arrived late due to a downed telephone line but quickly controlled the blaze with water from the waterworks. Fuller’s losses about 1000 dollars with 1000 insurance. building damage 200 dollars with 400 insurance. Sealed bids for county poor medical attendance for 1888 to be received by January 2 with right to reject all bids.
Palatable cod liver oil emulsion touted as remedy for consumption scrofula bronchitis debility wasting diseases in children and chronic coughs. Physicians report children take it with pleasure and endorse its use worldwide. Try Scott's Emulsion and be convinced.
A testimonial praises Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children as the prescription of a leading female nurse and physician in the United States. It has been used for forty years with consistent success by millions of mothers.
An old advertisement touts a teething remedy claimed to ease infant pain and cure dysentery diarrhoea griping in the bowels and wind cold. It emphasizes health for the child and rest for the mother with a price of 25 cents per bottle.
In a Santa Ana dated note, Hitchcock cautions California real estate fever may overestimate profits. He reports orange groves yielding high returns per acre while towns proliferate, predicts a shift away from speculating on corner lots, and asserts the region can support far greater growth than current speculation suggests.
The District Court for the Second Judicial District lists spring term dates for eight counties led by Hutchinson on February 28 and Aurora on March 7 with further sessions in Davison Hanson Yankton Miner Brule Sanborn and Jerauld counties through June. Motions and demurrers are scheduled per county and may be heard on specific days with terms dependent on cases pending.
The report covers a thirteen week fall term under Superintendent Nl Ee Krarz. It lists enrollment and school progress metrics for the public schools in the district.
An Old Bank Notice touts loans with fixed rates and cash on short notice promising money for improved farms and ventures. The ad invites readers to call for more details and to seek assistance from Davison Hros and Seaman.
Mitchell Printing has acquired the local rights to Bancroft's non mutilation printing process and now produces high quality designs from movable type at one fifth the cost of lithographs. They offer stocks bonds certificates and commercial printing at standard rates and invite public inspection of samples at their office.
Leading citizens in Mitchell work to organize a gymnasium society securing horizontal bars trapeze and all necessary paraphernalia A trainer is being arranged and all who wish to improve health and develop muscles are urged to join A suitable hall is secured and will be furnished at a small joining fee with great benefits expected Mitchell seeks to join other important cities with such societies.
A Bainbridge Munday county attorney testimonial from Clay County Texas praises Electric Bitters as a life saving malaria and disease remedy. D L Wilcoxon of Horse Cave Kentucky adds he believes it would have killed him without the medicine. The notice extols its curative powers for malaria kidney liver stomach disorders and injuries with a 50 cent price and cautions against imitations.
Deck and Edgerly debtors urged to settle before January 1 to balance books. Advertisement promotes Shiloh's porous plaster for back chest and side pain priced at 25 cents and notes sale by L. O. Gale with remedies for consumption.
Oghatcher Bros call and settle before January 1, 1888. After that date, outstanding accounts will be placed with an attorney for collection. CHANDLER Gros.
Antique newspaper classified ad promotes a skin salve for cuts sores ulcers tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and piles. Promises guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded at 25 cents a box, with seller L. O. Gale.
An ad asserts the Pearl Top lamp chimney is genuine with exact labeling. It warns dealers may misrepresent quality and urges insistence on the exact Pearl Top label from GEO. A. Macbeth & Co. Pittsburgh Pa.
Land Office notice lists George T. Davison of Mitchell Dak filing for homestead proof for north half southwest quarter section two township one one east in Davison County. He will prove residence and cultivation January 21 1888 before the register at Buillet Dak. Witnesses named: William C Hillman Charles N Butterfield Albert Butterfield and A Judd Annis all of Mitchell.
Land Office at Mitchell notices that John Ruble has filed for final proof on land in 10-59, with the hearing January in Hanson county. The proof will be made before the register at Mitchell. Names listed include J. Ruble, Tver Peterson, Thorv. dorgen sen, Aaron Webb, and others. attorney R N Kratz.
A satirical verse lampoons a vain aesthetic young man who mocks crude behavior while describing his refined tastes. The narrator notes his delicate smile, nasal features, and city promenades that charm women, despite being called an ass by some.
Conversation notes a mother and child debating artistic striving versus detail. The child mocks art by claiming it draws cows with tails, while the mother cites a guidance book urging effect over minutiae. The exchange reflects attitudes toward artistic pedagogy.
Mr Yardcash visits a mission girl for tea. Tillie admits she is not a heavy eater. Her mother disciplines the brother for a joke, then Tillie defends truth over family pressure and insists on her suitor letting her eat.
A rag peddler’s horse balks on Gratiot near Hastings as a crowd swarms. A 12 year old boy feeds hay to calm the animal, telling bystanders it’s the hay that moves a balking horse. The tale appears in the Detroit Free Press and is paired with a humorous exchange about novels.
A breezy young lady on Summit avenue greets Charles Dudley Warner after his visit and asks if he adores Browning. Warner says his region held the poet in esteem while the woman asserts he outshines them all.
A humorous dialogue from the Omaha World Journal describes aging and youthful partners forming a council plan to avoid bankruptcy. They trade cash for secondhand overshoes and sugar, then propose starting a gum drop factory as the result.
Electric lights on public buildings in Washington attract insects and spiders, increasing webs that obscure architectural outlines. In Detroit Opera House, ushers wear white flannel coats and caps with brass buttons to avoid confusion for patrons in the full dress system.
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