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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
5
A fragmentary page lists subscription rates and terms for one copy for various periods and payment plans. It mentions changes of address, state mail, and continued publication, plus advertising rates, business cards, legal notices, and free marriage or death notices. The date field shows Friday June with missing year.
The Sioux City Journal argues Hawaii should be annexed by the United States, tracing a long history of support from presidents and congress, noting strong American government and commercial ties, and urging immediate action. It reports a Sioux Falls printers strike over pay at the Sioux Falls Press, with a resolution to hold fall fairs as crop prospects improve locally.
C M St P R R offers various excursion fares from Mitchell S D to Milwaukee and many eastern western northern and southern points for national conventions religious assemblies and scenic tours. Highlights include special round trips to Milwaukee Chicago and Buffalo with one regular first class fare plus added amounts, plus one fifth fare deals for Chautauqua and San Francisco plans. Sleeping car from Canton to Salt Lake City offered June 29 to July 1 1897. DeWitts Little Early Risers pills praised for quick relief of sick headache and stomach liver disorders.
South Dakota retailers push to form the South Dakota Retail Merchants Association. Alpena merchant C C Issenhuth tours Sioux City and Redfield planning a July 7 convention with speakers from Chicago Saint Paul Minneapolis and Sioux City. The group seeks to regulate direct sales to consumers by eastern catalogs, improve credit terms, and shorten delivery times, aided by rail fare offers and local hospitality. Issenhuth reports strong support from Minneapolis St Paul and Sioux City firms as the convention nears.
A New York Tribune account outlines the vast Bosporus seraglio with 114 miles of buildings housing about 4000 people. It details roles from the sultan’s mother and havenadar to kadines and eye-girls, plus attendants, chefs, musicians, eunuchs, and the 500 imperial horses.
A New York Leanger report describes an adult patient with arm trouble undiagnosed by doctors. X ray imaging exposed lime salt deposits in the blood, guiding treatment based on the imaging findings.
June reports from Blendon noting Mrs. W A Dean travels to Connecticut for six weeks, Joy Stevens infant death, church subscription drive by Norwegian Lutherans near Victor cemetery, Earn Rice visiting Laverne Minnesota, George Kelsey relocates house for bedrooms, Mrs O Veste ill, Ivis notes red Fisher injured near Letcher, oats beginning to head. Badger items include fishing party at Jim site with no catch, visits by Hughes and Shaw from Spink County, Carl Swartout returning to Gann Valley, Clay Young trips to White Lake, lightning killing two calves for J J Watkins.
In Historic Dwarfs Mary Shears Roberts recounts Casan a three foot high Mongol dwarf born in eastern Asia near Karakorum. A fierce, skilled rider and archer he led a troop of daring youths among Genghis Khan’s forces and trained in Tartar warfare while his small stature did not hinder his leadership or endurance. A Berlin Custom notes halting posts where omnibus drivers must stop for passengers at designated curb points.
A Swiss hunter reports finding near an eagle nest in the Alps a bizarre collection of remains and marks including a hare, 27 chamois feet, 4 pi treous feet, 80 pheasants feet, and various unclear items such as leads of fowls and heads of pecs with lacus references, plus marmots and squirrels, suggesting a puzzling trail of animal parts tied to the site.
South Dakota state auditor certifies Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company of New York as authorized to transact life insurance in the state. The filing shows assets and premiums, with officers Charles W. Camp and Gro. D. Eldridge swearing the accuracy. Certificate valid until December 1, 1897, issued at Pierre.
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler filed notice of his intention to make proof in support of his claim. Proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at Mitchell South Dakota on July 30 1847 Blanche E Winsey for the Nhanely a section 25 township range. Witnesses to prove continuous residence and cultivation are Ambrose Curtis Gilbert C Randall John P Lindahl and Aaron Lindahl all of Mitchell South Dakota. Clerk of court may require fee testimony before the order in the county or town.
John Cook sheriff of Davison County South Dakota will publicly auction the mortgaged property described as Lot 4 in Block 1 of the original Town of Mitchell South Dakota to satisfy a foreclosure judgment dated April 5 1897 and costs. The sale is set for July 20 1897 at 10 oclock in the forenoon at the front door of the Mitchell courthouse. The lot is in Davison County and the bid amount includes eight hundred forty dollars and eighty nine cents plus interest and costs. Merencock attorney for plaintiff is noted.
Notice mentions a mortgage by Eva E. Preston and H. Preston to Clara L. Hambright, filed for record in the Davison County Register of Deeds on May 1895, with a default and power of sale. The text records the mortgage book and date but lacks complete details.
Public auction to satisfy mortgage and judgment totals with costs. The sheriff will sell the northwest quarter of section four, township 101, range 61, and the northwest quarter of section eleven, township 104, range 62, at the Mitchell courthouse front steps on July 14 and July 24, 1897, respectively, to cover principal sums, interest, attorney fees, and foreclosure costs.
Notice is given that default on a March 7 18H mortgage from John Hornig to the Lowa Land Company Limited in Davison County will trigger a public sale of the described 320 acre west half of section 33 township 1 north range 62 west at the Davison County Court House Mitchell on a future date. The amount due is 1275.49 plus $10 attorney fees and costs. sale conducted by the Davison County Sheriff per law.
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