City Council Moves Against Mitchell Officers
Mayor Mentzer formally accuses City Marshal and night policeman of neglect and defiance of local option law. Council votes to dismiss both officers, adjourns to consider new police appointments as residents demand lawful enforcement.
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Mentzer
Gilbert
Welch
Davison
Rogers
Walrathant
Hitchcock
Kimball
Wardhall Durell
R. Messrs. Wills
Orswell
John Rickert
M. Eeting
Dugh
Tile Council
Mitchell
City of
Merchant Prince
Ald. Welch
Ald. Smith
Ald. Gilbert
Messers, Orswell
Wills
Dakota university closes term with verdict and progress
A courtroom report details a guilty verdict in a liquor and gambling case. The narrative follows witness cross examination and jury deliberation, then shifts to a university note praising Rev. Palmer and Brown, the growth of enrollments, new apparatus, and the decision to publish a college paper with student editors.
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J. G. Palmer
Highmore
A. A. Brown
A. W. Adkinson
Queen & Co
Philadelphia
Duncan
Dakota University
Sioux Falls
May Skinner
Lizzie Brashear
Anna Stanton
Beulah Windle
Messrs
C. O. Hutchins
Orswell and Wills liquor cases heard again in Justice Abbeys office
A large Friday crowd filled Justice Abbeys chamber as Orswell and Wills liquor case proceedings reopened. The jury was sworn, proceedings moved to city council rooms, and detective J S Connors testified detailing evenings at the defendants saloon with multiple witnesses and drinks counted.
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Justice Abbey
Orswell and Wills
Geo. A. Clark
W. H. Knowles
Orswell
Hitchcock
J.S. Connors
Aberdeen
Dakota
Wills
Marks
Tully
Dr. Crane
Scott
Corbin
Dillon
Ile
Crane
Maxwell
Moriarty
Trelly
Chamberlain Register: Mrs Moyer’s San Diego Visit
Mayor Moyer and his wife returned to Chamberlain after a winter in Mitchell, considering California as a potential move but choosing to stay. Her reports describe dust storms, cold dry weather, high housing costs, scarce fires, and health issues like typhoid and malaria versus Dakota conditions.
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Chamberlain Register
Moyer
Mitchell
California
Chamberlain
Dakota
Conent
Nominations Pinpoint Land Office Registers
President nominates IR. B. Wilson of Arkansas to Dardanelle land office Edward G. Spillman of Dakota to Devils Lake land office and Henry W. Scott of Kansas to Larned land office in today’s Senate briefing.
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Wasiington
Senate
IR. B. Wilson
Arkansas
Dardanelle
Ark
Edward G. Spillman
Dakota
Devils Lake
Dak
Henry W. Scott
Kansas
Larned
Kan
Hood's Sarsaparilla Defends Health Against Disease
A promotional notice extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a reliable remedy to combat illness within the body. It frames the medicine as a weapon against a demon of disease, promising restoration of peace and lasting health for many years.
Town grows by two births amid school notes and plans
The piece records two new births in the town, mentions five local schools and named teachers, notes a teacher's upcoming marriage and move, changes in mail service, a question about a protective association, library reading habits of New York youth, and a wedding in Ethan Dakota.
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Henry Baurett
John Weener
Mamie Weeks
Badger
Lizzie Wallace
Mitchell No
Carrie Gardner
Lisbon
Bertha Smith
Tobin
O. EB. Browne
Baker No
Browne
Frank Keeler
O. E
Golden Medical Discovery and Pond's Extract Ad
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal remedy for consumption nasal catarrh kidney and liver diseases and other blood disorders. Pond's Extract is praised for curing pain inflammation and hemorrhages, warning against weak imitations.
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Dr. Pierce
Pond
Debt and credit dangers warned in Harper's Bazar prose
A Harper's Bazar excerpt laments debt and easy credit, arguing that money in hand beats distant relations and that contracing a bill creates obligation. It links worry from debt to health harms, noting forgery and embezzlement as outcomes and debt as a source of social ills.
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Harper’s Bazar
Curious shutting of drug stores described from Dresden
A Dresden Courier report notes how drug stores close at dusk with iron shutters. Customers ring a bell, hear a window crank, and speak through glass panes. Clerks apologize for the inconvenience and politely offer change before resuming their shutters with a courteous bow.
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Dresden Cor
Courier-Journal
The Brotherhood of Man and Social Equality
The educated person should treat all people as equals, avoiding patronizing tones toward servants, the poor, or the criminal. The Romany signs and words mark belonging, and only kin from the same blood will offer support or alliance, a reflection of a universal brotherhood.
Capital Newspaper Premium Offer For Dakota Subscribers
Mitchell Printing Co announces a special premium for all Capital subscribers through January 1 1888 a $3.00 book Our Family Physician offered free for every new subscriber brought in by current readers The paper aims to double its circulation by inspiring old subscribers to recruit new ones and promises the book as incentive and proof of value.
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New York
Irving
Cooper
Pecey
Tess
Dakota
Tun Mitchell Printing Co
Correction on Blizzard Death Toll In Mitchell Dakota
The Waterloo Tribune prints a correction denying reports of 1,000 deaths and wolf scavenging after the Cedar Falls blizzard. Elisha Whittlesey Jr. cites Mitchell figures showing deaths not exceeding 100, with weather and illness blamed for the lower toll. Whittlesey, a Mitchell lawyer, previously connected to Allie Bowes of Cedar Falls.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
Mitchell
Waterloo 'Tribune
Tribune
Whittlesey
Dakota
Elisha Whittlesey Jr
Duakota
Mr. Whittlesey
Allie Bowes
James S Foster Real Estate and Loans Ad
Mitchell D T. 100 improved farms for actual settlers offered by James S Foster EAL estate and loans. Profitable investments for non residents. Send stamp for map circulars and price lit.
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James. S. Foster
EAL
Mitchell
D. T
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