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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1897
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR item notes trains arriving on a Sunday pattern with scattered abbreviations and names. Details are unclear but reference to Sunday movements and local stops or stations appear. No complete names, places, or numbers readable for precise synthesis.
Local Plano notes report social events at W B Rowley s and illness affecting singing lessons. Reports mention deaths, illnesses, and nearby visits, with several names and places such as Lead City Brendon and Bethel church.
A lengthy report argues railroads should not be crippled by excessive regulation in pursuit of cheap transport. It cites 1893 US losses of nearly 30 million and Illinois lines’ poor dividend history, warning reduced fares could curb transport and harm travel and commerce, while acknowledging public benefits of affordable service. An unrelated snippet notes railroad employees arrested for larceny after breaking into cars.
A fragmented OCR line hints at a cryptic informatics call and a name resembling C L McKRisie. The readable parts suggest a future-oriented inquiry or project, with no clear context or outcome given in the surviving text.
Mrs Geo Ball died suddenly at her Lead City home Tuesday evening after being found unconscious in the kitchen. Born Mary A Jewett in 1839, she leaves husband Geo H Ball, two sons Frank and Charles, a daughter Myra, two brothers in Michigan, and a Plano, South Dakota brother, with many mourners at the funeral at the Congregational church and burial in Masonic cemetery.
The record compiles Westher Bureau data for the Dakotas detailing monthly temperatures. It notes warmest and coldest months with averages, a high of 65 degrees on a date in 1885, and a low of -33 on a date in 1395, plus frost dates of September 17 and May 14.
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