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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1898
Page
3
We list subscription terms for multiple terms with varying advance payments and postdates. The notice asks subscribers to provide both old and new addresses when changing their residence and to send correspondence to the office by early Wednesday.
Official county paper notes advertising rates for business cards and notices. It also comments on the Chinese fleet heading to Manila, August South Dakotan topics, a mustache regiment order, Chamberlain Register prospects for state auditor, and a story about Commodore Schrey and Roosevelt on warship colors.
The Minneapolis Journal credits President McKinley for rejecting Toral’s offer to surrender Santiago with marching into the interior. Generals Miles and Shafter preferred a softer line due to troops’ dire condition, tropical storms, filthy trenches, and yellow fever threats, but the president demanded decisive action to eliminate Toral and his forces.
A reader criticizes The Sioux Falls Press for meddling in Republican strategy, claims the paper lacks knowledge of party plans and nominations, accuses it of bluff and railroading lines, and urges the paper to focus on its own party issues rather than pressuring Republicans.
The piece notes Anglo American interests and analyzes Harper's August article on the British dynasty focusing on the Prince of Wales. It cites rumors about his character, power, and potential as ruler, with engravings of the Prince, Princess, and close intimates.
The De Smet News and Leader editor, who sought appointment as postmaster, was denied. He defends party loyalty, notes Kittredge’s endorsement, and cites the defeat as a misjudgment by the lace party manipulators while warning readers about ensuing ridicule and possible consequences.
Cor respondent Sylvester Scovel slapped General Shafter in Santiago and faces trial. He acted after being barred from the first to raise the flag of victory. The populist free silver democratic ticket candidates linger in public view with little action since their public unveiling a month ago.
Chaplain Daley of the first regiment S C V organized the Patriotic Christian League to guide religious training for soldier boys before their Philippine deployment. Germany shows visible friendship as an ambassador sends a note to McKinley. Dr Finnerud of Watertown seeks the Republican nomination for governor with Codington backing him.
A Washington official warns troops headed for Manila may not return before completing their enlistment as the war’s outcomes shape troop deployments. South Dakota newspaper boys finish summer business in Sioux Falls then head to the exposition, while ads tout Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Ely Cream Balm for health and allergy relief with user testimonials.
John C. Dunn of Whreeling West Virginia hails DeWito's Witch Hazel Salve as the finest preparation for piles and claims it also cures eczema and other skin diseases. L. O. Gale endorses the remedy.
An old remedy claim touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as trusted for over fifty years by mothers. It soothes teething pains, softens gums, relieves wind colic, and diarrhoea. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle. insist on the genuine product.
Minted from Mitchell, the C M & St Paul Railway posts homeseekers excursion fares to usual territory at one fare plus two dollars round trip. Trans Miss Exposition to Omaha offers one and one third fare round trip with 30 day limit. Also included are salves and cough cures ads and a Republican County Convention notice for Davison County to elect ten delegates for Mitchell on August 20 1898.
Thunderstorms defy wind direction as air currents race above the breeze, a New York Herald note explains. A Smolensk lottery in Russia forces one man to marry a chosen damsel for 5000 rubles, with options to split or return funds if the match fails.
A ship at Naples welcomed the king and his party. One officer, dressed as a project, leaned on a hatch wind sail mistaking it for a mast. The boatswain's mate alerted the deck officer, remarking that a member of the king's retinue had fallen down the main hatch on a man of war.
In a London Telegraph excerpt two wives discuss husbands and Sunday shirt habits, noting men wear clean shirts on Sundays and Saturdays to appear decent when hot. A separate note claims linden wood, a soft variety, provides the greatest heat when burned, with fir close behind.
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