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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1888
Page
1
The old year ends with a fierce Saturday storm from the northwest bringing heavy snow and a falling thermometer. Streets emptied, trains halted, and delivery services slowed as readers faced drifts and blocked routes while provisions and coal markets felt the impact.
In Evansville Indiana Prescott runs a tavern where Henderson gang members try to bully him. Prescott confronts them with a pistol threat and demands payment for drinks. The gang surrenders, pays up, and Prescott keeps their watch, leaving with the Kentucky cash. A year later, the Hendersons remain his best customers for nerve and protection.
Aberdeen News reports Scrap Iron Bill, aka William Bibel of Minneapolis, visiting Aberdeen en route to Redfield and Canby to address Odd Fellows. The temperance advocate, famed in Dakota, plans lecturing after expressing strong belief in prohibition following a recent Supreme Court decision.
F W Holls reports police in Moscow opened two letters to him and mutilated a copy of The Century Magazine for July. The officer said ads for irreligious books trigger censorship. Police delay newspaper delivery and blot out Russia news deemed dangerous.
Brief notice extols Green's August Flower as a remedy for dyspepsia and liver troubles. It blames greasy food and irregular habits for indigestion and asserts the product restores health and happiness. A bottle costs seventy five cents and is available from druggists.
The record lists multiple canceled contests with preference rights noted. It also highlights a laxative ad for California Fig Syrup and a Yankton citizens bonus plan to attract manufacturing firms investing at least six thousand dollars and employing twenty workers in Mitchell.
A plan to stabilize the town hinges on securing resources, with an oatmeal mill seen as a pivotal asset to drive growth and employment. Authorities weigh how to attract operations and ensure economic gains for residents.
N C Preston of Mitchell, in Yankton, discusses the Davison County temperance question after a tight local option win by seven votes. He notes a potential contest over publication of election notices but says a delay to examine the matter would have faced a prohibitionist canvassing board. The election is likely not contested, and Mitchieli may enforce abstinence.
Hon Theo D Kanouse outlines his platform to Aberdeen News urging prohibition as a major issue but not the sole goal. He champions citizenship rights including women enfranchisement and against taxes on women, while praising Dakota Republicans and rejecting a single prohibitionist agenda.
Local papers dispute postoffice conditions with The News urging stove and lobby heating while The Republican questions lobby location and calls the office a dungeon. The debate centers on democratic access versus comfort as Major Barrett pushes for admission of a heated, brighter post office.
Rapid City Republican notes western residents face high coal costs in winter. It cites the Hamilton Spectator on free trade and coal duties, arguing duties raised prices. The Aberdeen Herald adds Dakota travelers worry about returning from California, joking the walking isn’t all booked.
The famed liquid remedy Syrup of Figs is praised for delicacy of flavor and broad action. It cleanses and tones a clogged feverish system, relieves headaches colds fevers and habitual constipation, and supports kidney liver and bowel health. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Company San Francisco. For sale by TH Seallin.
The piece extols Boschee's Georgian Syrup as a guaranteed remedy for lung and throat conditions from cold to pneumonia. It promises to clear obstructions in air passages and cautions that other treatments may fail, while noting the syrup is available from druggists for seven and a half cents per bottle.
A Ross county railroad named the Cincinnati, Ohio Valley and Huntington, ten miles long, is led by John Karshner who operates as owner, conductor, brakeman, baggagemaster, mail and express agent. The cash-only system uses no tickets or bookkeepers, and trains run twice daily from Adelphi to Kingston stopping for passengers or freight. The piece also notes a medical ad for Dr Vieree's Favorite Prescription addressing female ailments.
Whittier's poem The Brown Dwarf of Rugen leads a number with frontispiece illustrations by Sh. 1. Blashfield. Mrs. Burnett's Sara Crewe continues with i. B. Birch and Mrr. Stockton wraps up The Clocks of Rondaine. Pennell describes the London Christmas Pantomime with drawings by Pennell and photo reproductions. A sketch Poor Mr Brown by Jehard M. Johnston, Amusements of Arab Children by Henry W. Jessup with Harry Fenn pictures, How the Yankees came to Blackwood by Louise Jerrick with Kemble sketches, a Balboa poem by Nora Perry illustrated by Frank Day, and more including A Girls Military Company and Where the Christmas-tree Grew.
A county woman named Mrs. Luther Lutz suffered seven years from a severe consumption illness that left her vital organs undermined and unable to sleep. After three months of relentless coughing she tried Dr. King's new discovery for consumption, slept through her first night, and with one bottle was miraculously cured. The ad invites readers to obtain a trial bottle at L. O. Gale's drug store in Shelby, New York.
A Yankton Press look at dairying as a rising regional powerhouse with profitable returns. It notes blue joint grass fed stock, prairie feeding grounds, and rail lines supplying eastern markets for milk products. The piece then advertises Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as a palatable remedy for consumption and debility, and Pond's Extract for a range of pains and inflammations.
Aberdeen reports that the memorial committee has arranged transportation to Washington and expects a sizeable party of Dakotans to join. The trip will occur soon after the holiday recess, with members staying in the capital for several days.
Multiple notices announce filings of intent to make final proof for timber culture and homestead claims in Davison and Hanson counties. Names include Andrew Carlson George Conn Lutz Butterfield Judd Annis Eben Booth John Ruble and others with witnesses listed in Mitchell daily records. Registration handled by Geo B Everitt and R N Kratz attorney.
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