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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1898
Page
5
The Mitchell Capital lists subscription rates for various terms and payment times. It notes club access to leading national publications, asks subscribers to report address changes and provide both old and new addresses, and requests correspondence by Wednesday.
TO ADVERTISERS, and Advertising rates given on location,a. 1 will be found reasonably low. Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, $5.0 per year. Each additional line, $10. Business Locals, tvo cents per line Legal Advertisements at Statute Rates. Cards of Thanks, Ten Cents per line Marriage and Death Notices published free of et Obituaries, Resolutions of Respect and Wedding presents, Five Cents per line. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1898.
The article surveys remarks on President McKinley’s Atlanta peace jubilee reception, Bryan’s return to public debate on expansion, Major Pickler denying candidacy rumors, and favorable as well as critical opinions about the incoming 189% legislature. It notes cost concerns, calls for a sixyear legislative meet, and editorials from South Dakota papers on state government spending and honesty.
The Chicago Record urges Admiral Dewey be retired from active duty and brought home after peace. It argues the hero of Manila should be celebrated with an ovation, and predicts the administration will grant his wish to return home soon.
In his annual report Auditor Mayhew condemns the lack of fuel funds for the Yankton asylum after Gov. Lee vetoed a 12000 appropriation. He details coal on hand, emergency actions considered, and his decision not to pay October bills without executive approval, citing legal and ethical constraints.
The article notes Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s recent return to Havana with Spaniards displeased, while Lieut. Hobson faced 267 kissers in Kansas City en route to Manila. It describes political tensions over an insurance commissioner law and McKinley’s southern visit, including Confederate veterans presenting him a badge in Macon, Georgia.
Report from San Francisco that several South Dakota company shipments to Manila miss Christmas delivery. Watertown and Sioux Park boxes await payment of freight charges, held by railroads. Mitchell to Davison county boys box shipped on the St Paul with notice to ladies. Yankton box held seven days in San Francisco and likely reaches Manila in mid January.
Doane Robinson of Yankton and John H. Scriven of Mitchell seek the position with Scriven favored. Yankton County already dominates appointments as Robinson’s business associate has just become postmaster. Scriven is seen as entitled by Davison County. Schie is noted as thoroughly qualified for the post.
Harper’s Magazine January features S A Staunton’s account of the Naval Campaign of 1808 in the West Indies with Carlton T Chapman illustrations. H W Wilson discusses Naval Lessons of the War and Albert Bushnell Bart writes Brother Jonathan’s Colonies. Other pieces cover executive power, Fifty Years of France, Nubia life under the Mahdi, and the Sultan at Home.
Advertises Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as the remedy for general health by improving digestion blood and body tissues. Promises full appetite better digestion nutrition and red blood supply and urges sending 2 cents in stamps to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY to receive a 1008 page Common Sense Medical Adviser.
January Barver's Round Table offers fiction including Forward March continued, Billy of Bartery B, An Early Free-Trader, Captain Sampson's Queer Cargo, The Nerve of Foley, and two articles for boys The American Boy's Workshop and How to Build an Ice-Yacht. Also advertised are salve for skin ailments with money-back guarantee and Karl's Clover Root Tea for constipation with refund option.
A Boston Transcript item collects humorous regional speech quotes. It includes Florida dialect timing misreadings, a North Carolinian’s World’s Fair recall, and a brief sample of informal Black English as spoken by a houseboy describing a woman’s appearance and charm with rural phrasing.
A New York Sun quote presents a mature speaker praising fresh cares as transient. He argues old worries fade, new concerns rise, and eventual peace comes when cares occupy little space in life.
A system invented by Rev. W. H. Murray of Peking allows blind people in China to learn reading and writing in under three months despite 405 distinct Chinese sounds. The method is adapted to have the blind teach sighted pupils to read.
A prose quote from the New York Sun discusses a writer’s brain bell as a mental cue marking the end of work. The speaker notes no real brain bell but a signal within guiding when to stop for the day and reflects on whether readers think the bell should ring sooner.
In a Miss Mulock story a lady and gentleman in a lumber yard by a dirty river prove a cheerful heart sees cheerful things. The lady admires pine boards while the man notes the foul river. She answers I prefer to smell the pine boards.
A manuscript discussion in the Chicago Tribune contrasts a poem’s missing poetic fire with an editor’s joke about stoking it in a stove. The exchange hints at how a poet seeks remedies for verse vitality and suggests practical, humorous options.
A Boston Globe excerpt notes that in China a criminal is punished severely and his male descendants are killed to erase a lineage. The piece mocks the belief in heredity and crime without quoting further details from the source.
A Manitoba description notes soil is a deep black loam up to five feet below the surface, shaped by centuries of decaying vegetation, and remarks on the absence of large stoves in a 100 mile furrow.
A St Louis Post Dispatch note recommends hot drinks as a sedative for the stomach and to aid gastric motility after meals. It says hot water taken with or after meals can help chronic dyspepsia by improving muscular function over months, though it does not fully correct secretory defects.
The piece mocks detectives who wear tin stars from private agencies promising certification for five dollars and sells disguises like wigs and false beards. It notes amateurs who arrest others, boast in boardinghouses, and relish the label of detective as a curious urban quirk. It contrasts with a vivid Arizona sketch that catalogs picturesque contrasts and political figures.
The scene recalls Pope’s sharp clash with Lord Halifax over his Iliad notes. Garth advises a stratagem to repeat the passages and recall critiques, pleasing the critic and provoking Pope. In a street interlude a cabman laments his ruined cab and horse, calling for accountability.
The Melbourne Argus notes some relief applications are oddly phrased. A widow writes that her family includes four dairy cows two pigs a horse three children from her first husband two goats in milk and a baby from her second husband, all lost in the fire.
The passage notes the sycamore's early cultivation in England and Mary Queen of Scots introducing a tree to Holyrood. It mentions sycamores in Scotland, air-pump dusting in European galleries, the universality of the title king, and rats avoiding houses with a guinea pig roaming.
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