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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
5
Hayti South Carolina. The Hamlin County commissioners approve a special election on January 26 to vote bonds worth sixty thousand dollars for buying land and building a permanent county courthouse and jail. The move follows Hayti’s November victory to hold the county seat, ending long rivalry over the location.
Copenhagen correspondence reports an official German edict urging food economy. It instructs housewives to cook potatoes in skins, feed scraps to animals, and respect daily bread to endure wartime shortages. The letter praises wartime bread made with the letter K as nourishing as other loaves.
Detroit articles note a nationwide essay contest on scientific salesmanship with more than 1,000 participants and aims for expanded entries. The topic is How to sell a Studebaker and includes field force members across the country.
The state board of charities and corrections commends a penitentiary farm where honor convicts can work outside the facility. It recommends ending the Sterling Manufacturing shirt contract on March 10 1915 and expanding the twine plant to serve workers, noting benefits of the program.
The Studebaker corporation launches a nationwide sales sweepstakes open to organization members with divisions and prizes for each branch and district. Sales manager L J Ollier outlines aims to test what sells Studebaker cars among many merits and to establish a standard sales approach judged by VPs Benson Haslet and others. Winning essays will be published in The Studebaker Salesman.
An advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a remedy for liver complaints and related symptoms. It asserts mental states improve with liver treatment and claims relief from billousness headaches dizziness and constipation. The copy urges purchase at the druggist for 25 cents.
A state report urges replacing fixed sentences with indeterminate terms except for murder or treason. It also calls for attaching trial records to prisoner files and notes many inmates are nonresidents unjustly punished. It criticizes training school equipment and cites parole outcomes and parental blame.
The Chicago and Milwaukee railroad made Murdo the division point as a new time card went into operation. A combination train left Rapid City the same day. Assistant Superintendent Anderson oversaw the scheduling change in Murdo. The Farmers Institute under Dr Stoner from Brookings Agricultural College ran sessions in Murdo with large attendance and active judges.
In Aberdeen South Dakota property owners win a temporary injunction from Judge Thomas L Bouck barring the city and contractor L W Schruth from completing the $35000 storm sewer or its Moccasin creek outlet. They cite noxious fumes odors and harmful vapors threatening nearby property and residency.
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