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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1897
Page
3
Readable fragments hint at a local event or notice involving certain individuals and times. Limited text prevents full identification of names, places, or actions.
A Pierre correspondent details populist plans to create multiple new state offices to shelter many candidates. Proposals include three oil inspection districts, an expanded insurance department, a codification committee, a public printer, and an immigration commissioner. The plan would add costs while aiming to channel patronage to populist supporters.
In Woonsocket Times a lighter tale follows Volcano Jones riding Milwaukee express to Pierre. Jones, a mild man with a booming voice, quips about robber railroads while agent Clark returns $2 85 in fare overcharge after Jones pays with a five dollar bill.
A Chadron Nebraska Signal Recorder notice recalls Rev Frank Durant leaving Chadron for Mitchell South Dakota. The local B of L E No 302 presented him a gold watch, with a Shakespeare Club reception honoring his service. The ministerial association offered warm remarks wishing him success and blessings in his new field. A rail union speech and donations highlighted his years among railroad men and parishioners. Also listed are upcoming Homeseekers Excursion ticket sales by the C P M O railway.
Wanamaker loses Pennsylvania caucus while Perkins secures California senate nomination. Delaware GOP creates a rump house amid contests. Chicago enacts theater headgear ban. The currency controller approves a 50 percent dividend for creditors of the National Bank of Illinois. Trials involve ex Federal officials over freight rates. Rates disputes threaten trouble from East to Pacific. Counterfeit notes circulate and bank consolidation urged in Kansas. Albany marks New York capital’s hundredth anniversary with legislature. Skating race in New York sees Donoghue win by eight laps. Emma Spreckels Watson returns $2 million in father Claus Spreckels’ gift.
A sequence of House and Senate actions from January recounts the Loud postal bill amending mail rates for serial publications and denying sample copies, along with alterations to timber culture laws and brevets. It notes motions on the Pacific railroad funding and debates over the army appropriation, Cuban policy criticism, and reactions to California figures.
Senator Morgan offers a substitute creating a nine member board of trustees split four east of the Mississippi and four west plus a president with no stockholding. Trustees chosen by the president and Senate to run the roads with a four percent sinking fund and bonds at three percent for 30 years, debt payable within 26 years.
WHEAT prices and bids across cash and futures at Duluth and Minneapolis with January and May quotes. Livestock markets at South St Paul and Chicago show hogs cattle and sheep prices, receipts and trends, with mixed movements across regions.
The London Times mourns General Walker and doubts Wolcott's European mission will succeed. It says public English opinion opposes bimetallism and expects the envoy's trip to be only a political gesture to appeal to silver supporters.
Wisconsin moves to remove pardoning power from the governor and place it in a new board amid uproar over ex Governor Upham. Governor Scofield supports reform and will urge it in the coming legislative session. Local items note assignments and political replies unrelated to the reform.
Senate foreign relations did not take up the Cuban question in Cameron’s absence and some members doubted the Cameron resolution would be pressed. Reports note favorable action on extradition treaties with Argentina and the Orange Free State. Other items: Calumet and Hecla declares a regular dividend plus a record $10 extra. Queen Victoria may abdicate in favor of the Prince of Wales. Victoria reports heavy rains in Melbourne area and Port Darwin hurricane damage. A Statistical review notes many young women who kill themselves, with motives linked to poverty and hardship.
A Port Arthur Canadian, J. B. Newsome, and Alex Anderson recount a bear hunting incident where Anderson claims hypnotizing a mother bear and her cubs with eye contact saved him. A separate note from Berlin reports on Prince Bismarck’s meerschaum pipe and a series of fateful signs tied to his career.
A Contemporary Review passage extols St Mark's as the noblest church, its organic form shaped by time and nature. It lauds marble colors, vaults and cupolas, and notes a Sunday fugue that mirrors the building’s life and eternal becoming through music and architecture.
A lammergeyer or bearded vulture, common in old world mountain ranges, sharpens a self grooming routine with its claws acting as razors. Feathers form a bristly mustache and beard, regrowing into a full bristle crest with regular trimming, as described in the San Francisco Examiner.
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