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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1886
Page
8
The verse recalls life in a western sod shack with leather hinges and no glass. A bachelor leaves the East for wealth and romance on the prairie, dreaming of a two loving life, future heirs, and shared hardship in a claim shanty.
Citizens in Chamberlain report low expectations for opening the Sioux Reservation. They blame the Indian Aid Society led by Herbert Welsh for pushing Indians to demand more than the Dawes bill offers, risking failure to sign the treaty. Local Brule county sentiment runs against the plan.
The Pioneer Bank at Devil's Lake suspends operations as local depositors file attachments totaling about 5000 dollars. President A. M Forris, Vice President I. G. Stone, and cashier O. B. Dorsett face liabilities around 25 thousand dollars, with assets including real estate and bank fixtures. The Ninth National Bank of New York and First National of St Paul are correspondents.
Jan 18 report from Chamberlain notes vigorous ice cutting with fair quality, snow requiring scraping before cutting can proceed, and reassurance that sufficient ice will be secured. Also mentions a satirical note by James Baynes editor of the American Swineherd and Howard Advance critique of the Agricultural Board over state fair bidding.
Tioward forms a Choral Union while Brule County cuts liquor license values from 8500 to 300. Stutsman County forms a farmers alliance and the Yankton Fort Buford Oko boji line is revived. Opera seasons flourish in Northern Pacific towns as Salem endures an incendiary scare. Highmore plans a new hotel and courthouse. A Valentine era wedding in Miner county links Percival Demaray and Helen Johnson.
New York reports the Vanderbilt estate valued around 182 million dollars with residuary shares to Cornelius, William and George W. plus several life bequests. Charitable gifts totaling about 2.2 million are listed to missions, hospitals, museums, and religious societies. George named final heir to the house and art gallery. no discrimination against Frederick implied.
Last Friday afternoon between three and four o clock a defective flue and a two pound powder charge caused a blaze that leveled the Kas DeVries farm house on Platte Creek. The 22 by 16 frame building valued at about 400 dollars burned with no insurance. Mr DeVries and his wife suffered frozen hands as they tried to salvage belongings. Neighbors offered shelter, and Henry Kuipers extended hospitality to the family.
Married persons and young men considering marriage who worry about nervous debility or other disqualifications are urged to seek relief. Patients who consult Drs. F. and H. are invited to rely on their honor and professional skill.
The piece warns that improper indulgences ruin health and marriage, describing symptoms such as deranged systems, weakened functions, loss of power, nervous irritability, indigestion, and eventual decay and death, urging early remedy and caution for youths.
Readers warned that unskilled prescribers harm patients by giving toxic and injurious compounds month after month. Authorities urge immediate action to seek proper medical care and report dangerous practices.
Doctors trained at a leading American college claim to have cured patients with ringing in the head and ears during sleep great nervousness fright at sounds frequent blushing and occasional mind derangement, asserting cures were immediate.
The doctors warn about injuries from early indulgences and solitary habits that ruin mind and body, hindering business, study, society, and marriage. It lists melancholy effects like back weakness, headaches, dimmed sight, reduced muscular power, heart palpitations, dyspepsia, nervous irritability, digestive derangement, debility, and consumption.
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