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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1888
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered names and terms including orders and entities. The readable bits mention possible references to local offices, elections, and officials, but the overall meaning is unclear and no decisive event or outcome can be established from the readable lines.
A Dakota traveler recounts an arduous overland journey from Mitchell to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara while critiquing California land booms. He compares irrigation costs, profits, and prices with Dakota realities, casts doubt on crop yields, and suggests Salt Lake City or Aspen as better options, ending with personal doubt about relocation.
A lengthy obituary highlights Nettie Barnard Ward of Kimball a singer and beloved wife of Hon. Mark Ward. After a winter illness worsened by measles she died early Monday morning. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church with music from the Chamberlain quartet and Rev. Boggs officiating. Her loss is mourned by many in Kimball who recall her cheerful nature and social grace.
Newspapers across the territory praise Mayor Mentzer of Mitchell for enforcing prohibition local option law. Retailers and residents advocate strict law enforcement, with critics noting the mayor’s impartial stance and commitment to public order despite personal views.
Citizens commend Mitchell for insisting on lawful enforcement despite political pressure. The mayor’s stance is hailed as honest service to constituents, applying the law evenly to all victims.
A long list of entries details requirement of new pre-emption affidavits for numerous claimants with sections, townships, and dates, plus instructions to furnish clerk of court certificates of absence, record proof of citizenship, and affidavits of residence. Additional notices require proof of causes of absences, compliance with former letters, and allowed to make new proof with specific names and parcel numbers. A health ad for Green's August Flower concludes the page.
Unusual sickness affected the February period reports. Superintendent H. E. Kratz notes total enrollment and attendance figures, with detailed breakdowns for classes and daily averages.
Aberdeen News notes a farmer selling ninety hogs for over 20 000 pounds, worth more than 31 000 dollars, and praising Dakota farming as profitable. The edition also lists letters uncalled for at Mitchell post office as of February 27, with names such as Burton C F and Strong Miss Luella and a note about forwarding uncollected mail.
A Geneseo Illinois newspaper writer laments how local news is censored by residents who fear damaging reputations. He describes a web of extensive kinship making publishers cautious, triggering mass reactions and blocking reporting as stories surface in a tightly connected town.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer ties a young man’s act to his course of reading light literature from boyhood. It warns such material corrupts youth more than liquor, fueling dissipation, insanity, and death, and urges parents clergy and churches to focus on practical moral training for children.
A. E. Elliott reports a hog raising example with 21 hogs sold for 344.10 dollars and six brood sows remaining. The herd consumed 360 bushels of corn at 0.35 dollars per bushel, valued at 126 dollars, yielding a net profit of 196 dollars after subtracting corn costs. The pigs were born in May and fed on prairie grass until corn was ready. The corn came from 10 acres.
James S Foster AE estate and loans offers 100 improved real estate lots for actual settlers and profitable investments for non residents. Send stamp for map circulars and price list.
This ad promotes an easy laxative known as Nature's Own for biliousness colds fevers indigestion and habitual constipation. It highlights California Fig Syrup Company in San Francisco as the manufacturer and S. H. Seallin as the local seller.
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