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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1888
Page
7
Hivery customer advertisement promotes Weil Bros dry goods and seasonable merchandise including carpets clothing boots and shoes. The notice claims low prices and great bargains for the season and invites customers to visit to see styles. Weil Bros is identified as agents for Butterick patterns.
Notice invites writers and agents to secure subscriptions across Mitchell and neighboring counties with liberal commissions. The item lists local happenings from Alexandria to Pierre, including trains, crops, arrivals, farm activity, a jail floor flood, a boiler explosion fatality, and local business notices with several named individuals and organizations.
Reports on continued storm impacts dominate the day with updates on Mrs. Dodd’s prognosis, the endurance of witnesses, and details of livestock losses across Nome and surrounding areas. Cattle, hogs, and horses perished. coal supplies remain sufficient to prevent shortages. A suggestion from Ed Baker cites Indian protection methods for winter survival.
Report details multiple deaths from a prairie storm near Plankinton including Miss Fisher and Mrs Scott’s children. Daugherty, Jensen, Rovers, and others are named among victims. Parker survived by sheltering with a dead cow. Lois lost in a well initial confusion. A schoolteacher and several residents perish amid freezing conditions.
A report notes patient’s feet badly frozen with possible amputation. It is stated that over 200 head of cattle perished in Aurora county, indicating severe winter conditions and livestock losses.
A long list of cash patents is shown as ready for delivery including names such as Ilosca Locke Walter Uielps Juven Castus Wiryant John Il Vessey Betsy Lichfield Lizabeth Borgin Charles Kean Jan Pave Cateb Cummins Henry Oc tleckerman Joan M tlawk and many others. Two hundred sacks of mail have accumulated at Alexandria destined for Mitchell and other points west and north with messengers planned tomorrow morning if the wagon road improves.
The Merrymakers leap year party Tuesday evening hosted by Mesdames Silsby Devy and Ed Winsor with Misses Page Bracy and Fosdick drew seventy five couples, the season’s largest attendance, as guests were greeted at the door and elegant programs marked the event.
The Leap Year party on January 17 by the Mitchell Merrymakers featured twenty dances including new figures such as Fancy-Zihoo and March-Woster. Floor managers Mrs Knowles and Mrs Bond led a crowded but orderly event with high sociability, praising the ladies for etiquette and attendance, while visitors W H D Bliss of the Sioux Falls Press and banker H E Gates of Nimbail joined the festivities.
A heavy blizzard affects Mitchell area with stock losses and delays. J. B. Wilson leaves heel cattle for the market but shelters with Mr. Bliss while stock is found unharmed next day. G. E. Ledyard loses two head, John Beddoes five. Miss Georgie Burke and Miss Ikenby run overnight sessions in Peck and Cox districts. The 11th freight at Dagey’s crossing blocked roads four days. John Watkins welcomes a daughter born Tuesday the 10th. he was stranded near a neighbor’s home Thursday. Mrs. Geo Shoup begins a Wisconsin visit.
Readers may win 371.21 in cash for correctly answering what is the hole in the outside of the log cabin depicted in Warner’s logo. Send one signed, real-name answer with post-office address by April 16 1888 to J H Warner & Co Rochester NY.
A list of Warner's Log Cabin products including Sarsaparilla Hops and Buchu Remedy Cough and Consumption Remedy Extract Liver Pills Rose Cream Scalp Oil Plasters and others is cited. An impartial committee will decide on the remedies with results announced April 10 1888 Letters of inquiry will not be answered.
An essay argues modern medicine harms the body, praising nature’s cures used by frontier families. It promotes Warner's Log Cabin Remedies, claiming efficacy with ingredients like Sarsapilla for blood, Log Cabin Slops for stomach, and Cough and Consumption Remedy, plus plasters and liver pills.
Editorial urging proactive town development. Emphasizes strong effort, unity, and removing jealousy to attract business and new residents. Calls for decisive action, resilience, and collective ownership of prosperity.
A promotional note touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as the trusted teething remedy from a leading nurse and physician in the United States. It claims forty years of use with millions of mothers, saying the syrup relieves teething pain cures dysentery and diarrhea and eases griping and wind. A 2 cent bottle is advertised.
A colorful street scene features a six foot two huckster with a small wagon and a donkey drawing a crowd. The piece extols St Jacobs Oil as a multi virtue remedy, quoting a testimonial from R G Troll of the Western Union Telegraph Co. in St Louis. It claims the product relieves pain quickly and permanently, citing repeated cases as proof.
The Philadelphia Times critiques sons of old advertising methods. It contrasts wasteful unsealed circulars dumped in wastebaskets with sealed circulars and costly columns in major newspapers. It argues that broad newspaper ads reach far more readers and buyers than mass circular mailings.
Senator Evarts introduces a measure to indemnify settlers on the Des Moines river lands once granted to the Des Moines River Improvement Company and later regranted to the Cedar Rapids Missouri River Railroad Company. Conflicting titles arose as both grants were challenged and settlers filed under preemption laws.
The essay argues against costly circulars and waste-basket ads. It praises using generally circulated newspapers to reach customers efficiently. It cautions against generations of excessive advertising and champions modern, cost effective methods for business growth.
A New Year feature profiles Hon. Walter W. Cleary born 1854 in Aynhiala Kentucky. A U S land office special agent for Garden City district he studied law in Covington and served in local and state government before his Lake City posting. He relocated to Garden City in 1886 and became a prominent civic figure and property owner.
A reporter confirms Chandler Bros hardware business has been sold to Booth Bros of Albany. The new firm will take possession March 15 and keep Wil Snow as salesman. the former Chandler partners have not announced their future plans.
On Wednesday January 11 a quiet wedding took place with officiant W Abbey J.P. uniting John, son of Dr Moore, with Miss Carrie Nolt in a subdued ceremony.
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