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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1904
Page
3
Local and regional items include residents attending state meetings in St Louis and Minneapolis, good rainfall boosting crops, farewells for families moving to Canada and California, a church spoon shower for a upcoming marriage, a university baseball win over Fulton, and a dancing benefit at the Mitchell Club with Nichols mandolin.
Article extols surgery and antiseptic healing, noting organs removal, bone splicing, and rapid recovery. It praises Chamberlain's Pain Balm as antiseptic and fast acting for injuries, urging readers to keep a bottle at home and buy from druggists.
A comic exchange unfolds as a customer complains he pays for service he cannot see while accusing the barber of not using scissors on a bald head. The barber apologizes, noting the lack of hair, but the customer insists on the same effort as if hair were present.
A hardware merchant from Upcreek shows a pair of scales to a customer. The clerk touts a twenty pound scale in ounces while the customer seeks a scale that weighs it all at once. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune.
The anecdote recalls Mark Twain as a penniless reporter in San Francisco. He collided with a man, who threatened to punch him next week, prompting Twain to joke that he would survive until then if he did not break. The stranger then gave him a needed check.
A concise maxim underscores that persistence and consistent effort often yield results beyond luck. The quote attributed to Murray emphasizes steady labor over chance for achievement.
Delegates and visitors arriving Tuesday joined locals for a Knights of Pythias smoker at the Mitchell club rooms. J. Carl Southwick, grand chancellor, attended from Watertown while H. G. Nichols led music, and billiards and card tables provided additional amusements.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias in South Dakota began its annual session in Mitchell with about one hundred delegates and visitors. Officers and dignitaries from Yankton to Lead attended as sessions and banquets highlighted a week of routine business, toasts, and social events, concluding with praise for Mitchell and plans for the next meeting in 1905.
Visiting wives of the Knights enjoyed an informal musical evening at the Mitchell Club rooms. Vocal solos by Miss Merle Tillotson, O. T. Welch and L. D. Milne pleased the guests while Mrs. W. A. Heimberger impressed with piano selections. Cards followed as luncheon approached.
At the grand lodge session the Knights of Pythias elected officers for the coming year. Names include Grand Chancellor W. H. Disney of Terry and Grand Master of Exchequer C. A. Fountain of Clark. Sioux Falls was the sole preferred site for the next meeting.
In this advertisement mothers claim relief from summer complaints with Dr. Kowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. Nature's Specific is marketed as a towel remedy for various ills and promises quick, simple cure for the second summer.
Notice is given of a stockholders meeting of the Montana Standard Mining Company to be held on Thursday, July 2, 1904, at 8 o'clock p m at No 106 West Granite Street, Butte Montana, for electing seven trustees and voting on making the stock assessable and any other business that may come before them by order of President W I Lindsay Secretary
The uniform success of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in relieving bowel complaints has made it nearly universal with no rival. It is widely used for both children and adults and is sold by all druggists.
Prohibitionists of Davison county South Dakota will hold a mass convention at the Corn Palace in Mitchell at 1 p m on June 9 1904 to nominate candidates for senator representative treasurer register of deeds sheriff clerk of courts auditor states attorney county judge superintendent of schools surveyor coroner and county commissioner from the second district and to transact all business before the convention J Sykes Wilson Chairman
A humorous Utica Herald quote extols diligence comparing a man’s effort to a pig scratching a back against a board fence, suggesting increased work effort would reduce failures in the world.
W. J. Leach of Fergus Falls Minnesota, an engineer for the city water works, testifies that after back and kidney pain from lifting pipes he used Doan's Kidney Pills. He says the product met claims and recommends others try it. Sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute.
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