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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1903
Page
9
The notice outlines advertising rates including six line business cards at five dollars per year with one extra line at one dollar. Local ads cost five cents per line, cards of thanks ten cents per line, obituaries resolutions of respect and wedding presents five cents per line. Marriage and death notices published free, club with leading publications at low prices, address changes require both old and new addresses.
John Longstaff accuses Mitchell backers of raising 50000 for capital removal while denying the claim. The Huronite publisher allegedly obtained a private letter from the capital committee and published excerpts. The committee says no such fund is being raised and kept political relations free of state leadership influence.
The Huron Journal World analyzes a strong capital location dispute in South Dakota. It argues accessibility drives the case for Mitchell or nearby towns over Pierre, noting Great Northern rail plans could cut travel to the capital from the state’s north and Beadle county regions. The piece urges voters to consider a site reachable with less effort than Pierre, emphasizing fourteen years of remote capital placement.
Indications point to a strong crop as harvest nears with favorable conditions continuing. This season has seen unusually good growing conditions, suggesting yields will approach or exceed previous averages.
The new Brookings agricultural college head Dr. Chalmers receives extensive advertising in state and external papers. Supporters hope he can establish himself without hindrance while Grover Cleveland remains tied to his own political struggle, may he tire of the task.
In Meissen Saxony the royal pottery works operated as a fortress with strict secrecy enforced by sworn silence and a live motto Be Secret Unto Death. Foreman escaped revealing the process helped spread the secrets to Vienne and beyond, threatening German craft dominance.
F A Gulledge of Verbena Alabama recalls a long battle with a severe pile condition that produced 24 tumors before Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. The ad praises the salve for burns and pains and notes it costs 25 cents at Scullin Bros' drug store Byron jokes about a publishing Bible anecdote where a printer error changed a word at a dinner party.
An old advertisement promotes Dr King s New Life Pills as a powerful health tonic. It claims to convert weakness into strength and lethargy into energy, touting mental focus and overall vitality. The product is sold for 25 cents per box by Scallin Bros.
The article recounts monarchs and leaders who gambled for pleasure, noting Henry VII losing St Paul’s campanile bell to Sir Miles Partridge, Queen Mary risking lace caps, Charles II playing basset late into nights, William III enjoying racing and cards, and George II opposing cards while his heir reportedly lost over £860,400 before reaching adulthood.
An Australian tourist asks the distance to the nearest town in Ireland. An old woman recalls that five miles were once enough, but English invaders lengthened it to seven, and their hearts are broken by the change. She vanishes indoors.
Mrs Chas Applegate of Alexandria Indiana endured nightly coughing and consumption symptoms until using Dr King’s New Discovery. She reports gaining 58 pounds after three one dollar bottles and praises its cure for coughs colds lagrippe bronchitis and throat and lung troubles. Trial bottles were free at Scallin Bros drug store.
Practical tips cover drinking water with a spoon or cork hole, boiling dirty water, and Indian methods of purification by hot iron. It describes fires, body warmth practices, and how to roll sleeves and climb trees using dampened cords, with emphasis on simple, improvised techniques.
For sale three acres west of Mitchell with a modern six room cottage. Interior finished in hard wood. Features include an 80 barrel cistern, large cellar and barn. House completed May 1st. Terms available through W L Larkin, Owner, Mitchell South Dakota.
A Burmese proverb notes different standards of comeliness for a priest a beast a man and a woman The saying appears in Puck contrasting luxury with necessity and reflecting period humorous outlooks on social virtues and wealth.
A London business teaches parrots language with several tutors. The country of export is determined first and a weekly fee of 10 shillings is charged for two to three months. A full year of tuition promises a polyglot vocabulary drawn from four languages.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve chilblains frostbites damp sweating and swollen feet. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
A discussion traces cockfighting in English schools from Fitzste phen's twelfth century note to 1815 exhibitions at Manchester grammar. It then shifts to names, noting brief surnames like By Nye Lee and Featherstonehaugh, Osboldstine, McGillicuddy, and the comedy of long signatures.
A humorous exchange about a wife who is a terrible cook but will stay until a replacement is found. The husband notes the situation, and the wife confirms she will endure the meals while waiting for someone better.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Mother Gray a nurse at a Children's Home in New York. It claims the powders break up colds in 24 hours cure fever chills headache stomach troubles teething disorders and destroy worms. Sold at druggists for 25 cents with free sample by mail from Allen Olmsted LeRoy NY.
A Chicago Post excerpt has a man reassure his wife that fortune will come, while she quips that fortune would need to visit the club to find him. The exchange frames an old belief in eventual luck and social venues as paths to success.
Colusa California resident Joe Golobick claims fifteen years of severe rheumatic pain ended after using Electric Bitters. He says the medicine also aids liver and kidney troubles and general debility, priced at 50 cents with guaranteed satisfaction from Scallin Bros. druggists.
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