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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1901
Page
2
Senate advances army reorganization and faces early vote while House reconsiders apportionment. Readers of Senator Hanna’s letters discuss shipping subsidies, foreign built vessels, and direct lines to world ports, with Southern opposition to foreign ships and subsidy plans and calls for high speed ships to boost U S commerce.
A Monday evening ceremony saw both orders, W R C and G A C, install officers. Old soldiers led the program with RP Hal Commander S J Moore, Senior Vice J T Michels, Junior Vice M L Bobb, and other posts named. Mrs Inez M Owens installed officers for W R C with Hulda Stowell as President and Amelius Adams, Anna Barnard, Jack Owens among key roles. Dyspepsia Cure ad notes Kodo Digestives.
A.N. Oldman recalls two clerks, James and Robert, with wages of 12 and 15 dollars weekly. Eames asks for a raise but is told the business cannot yet afford it. Robert later earns 2100 dollars a year while Eames is dismissed. The ad ends with a warning about DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and fake copies.
The Watertown church, built in 1889 at a cost of 15000 dollars, has wiped out its long standing indebtedness. Pastor Stevens, formerly of Mitchell, aided by local leaders, led a year end meeting that raised and pledged enough to pay the last dollar. Stevens is praised for guiding the revival of the church.
The Baptist church held its annual meeting with enough attendees to conduct business. Elected for the coming year: Trustees Jobs Wayman J W Broadbent N L Davison C C Boulton G W Law church clerk Grace Gardimier treasurer C Boulton. New Sunday school organization names Superintendent J W Broadbent assistant C W Gillis secretary Maud Babcock treasurer Ira Loomer librarian Leonard.
A Pittsburgh News item notes Hood's Pills claim to cure constipation biliousness and liver ills and mentions church benevolence efforts and a local rumor about riveters at the Pressed Steel Car shop where fingers are lost through rapid rivet work.
A Victorian column blends home disinfection method with humorous anecdotes. Sulphur disinfection details mixing bricks and alcohol, closing rooms for a day, then cleaning with carbolic solution. Following items recount snippets about Daniel Webster collar humor, financier views, redwood durability, a theater anecdote, and a Kansas City banana spoof.
Rochester N Y January 9 Twenty eight people died in a catastrophic fire at the city orphanage many of them children aged two to fourteen The blaze likely started from a gas explosion in the boiler room spreading rapidly and trapping inmates Firefighters and police rescued occupants with ladders while hospitals and morgues prepared for the aftermath and a long death toll was anticipated.
Eight men died from smoke suffocation after a fire at the Harvard hotel second through fourth floors of 115 Washington Avenue South. Among the dead were Nathaniel Perley C J Skidmore J B Bentley B Scofield George Rutley Michael Monahan and Jacobson of Minneapolis and J N Erickson of Alexandria Minn. Only Jacobson may have survived briefly. Alarms spread as night clerk George OConnor and lodger Charles Hanson alerted others and tried to wake guests amid smoke. Twenty seven lodgers occupied the house. nineteen escaped while others perished in the blaze.
W L Woodward of La Crosse has secured Senator James Stout to present a measure to regulate marriages. The bill will be introduced after the session opener. It requires all marriages to be approved by an examining board of physicians to prevent unions of degenerates and to control marriages.
An engine striking a freight train on the Monongahela division at Anderson, MorGanstown West Virginia, killed eight men and injured two. Authorities cite likely misread orders as the cause. The wreck happened on a broken trestle with rails torn up.
After 29 years of experiments at Rothamsted England it is shown that in winter more than half of the rainfall penetrates the soil and becomes available for spring supply while in summer only about a quarter is absorbed. The reader learns about soil water storage and seasonal utility of rain.
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