Navy recruits in Mitchell and rail/oil town growth unfold
The United States Navy opens a recruiting station in Mitchell with local volunteers eager to join. Sailor Thos Smith and Yeoman Ross oversee enlistment as a second office opens near the First National Bank. Mining and river projects spur Milwaukee Road expansion with thirteen rail cars carrying traders outfits and horses. Oacoma, Lyman County rises as a new boom town with gas electric and waterworks firms planning a 500000 capital and a planned smelter link inland from the Black Hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Uncle Sam
Vais City
Thos Smith
Cui Bowlswain Mute
J. TH. Megis Ho
Wod Cc
W. Ross Yoemiat
Smith
Bert Maryal
Limele
New York
Mr. McGive
Yoeman Ross
First National Bank
Navy
Army
Winers
Lincoln
Neb
Oaconia
Chicago
Oacoma Gas Company
Oacoma Electric Light Company
Oacoma Waterworks Company
Friends of Oncoma
Black Hills
Omaha
Oncoma
Oacoma
Lyman County
S. D
South Dakota
Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea Sold For 35 Cents
Scallin Bros advertise Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea as the greatest baby medicine for sleep growth and pest relief. The product is offered in tea or tablets at 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Scallin Bros
Meeting at Yankton Annual Congregational Meeting
The thirty fifth annual meeting of the Congregational Churches of South Dakota will be held in Yankton from May 14 for five days. Notables include Dr. Washington Gladden and Rev. P G Woodbury. The new Yankton Congregational church will be dedicated and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will meet opening day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Churches of
South Dakota
Yankton
Washington Gladden
The
National Council
P. G. Woodbury
D. D
New York
American Missionary Association
BE. D. Waton
Beloit College
Ricoit
Wis
Wm. A. Rice
EB. W. Jenney
Winona
Minn
Gladden
Missionary Board of the Congregational Church
John D. Rockefeller
New Congregational Church
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
J. A. Derome
Vallley Springs
New York Commercial Report on 1904 U S Statistical Abstract
The first pamphlet copies of the United States statistical abstract for 1904 have been printed and will soon be distributed. The 659 page volume contains tables showing growth in population, money in circulation, bank deposits, foreign trade, farm products, and industrial output with figures such as a 1,380,000 population rise and exports exceeding 40 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
America
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Promised Cure
Advertisement claims permanent cure for constipation indigestion and stomach disorders using Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea priced 35 cents in tea or tablet form by Senallin Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Senallin Bros
Blood cleanliness and health urged by physician claims
An article extols keeping blood pure to prevent disease, arguing foul blood endangers life more than a dirty body. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as superior for purifying blood and curing stomach, blood, and lung diseases, while offering a medical adviser for 21 stamps and mailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Ny Cas
Uthat Isla
Pieres
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
S.S. S
Atlanta
Insurance firms in state report profits and losses
The article details insurer finances with premiums, expenses, and profits. It notes state assess ments totaling 472 114 and losses of 3425 008, plus South Haktas mutuals reporting 811 470 in premiums and 120 145 in losses. Overall state insurers paid 2 737 840 and received 1 004 121 in losses. It anticipates new state organizations will influence future insurance market share and funds flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moe
Dganen Sdn
Rmartow Lheta
Payton
South Haktas Mutuals
Fostitauce
Unclear ad fragment mentions Kaia disease cure claim
Fragmentary text advertises a cure or remedy with promises of relief and money back. It references costs like 26 and 500 and includes product names that are not clearly identifiable.
County Offers School Money Loan at Low Rate
Davison county advertises four thousand dollars in school money to loan at four percent with better terms. County Auditor C. D. Stearns urges immediate contact for details. notice dated April 26, 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davison County
C. D. Stearns
Notice for Sealed Bids on Four Bridges
Bids will be received at the county auditor for construction of four bridges across the James River Perry township and other townships, lengths 382, 100, 28 and 82 feet. Each bid must include a one fourth bid bond. Plan and specs at auditor. Bids opened May 20 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of County Auditor
James River
Perry Township
Len
Deer Township
Wight
Rome Township
Vobin
Tideine Price
O. D. Stearns
Farm and railroad gains in 1904 harvest and transport
Production reached 552,899,517 bushels with corn at 2,467,480,9534 bushels up 223 million from 1903. Railroads added 4,4595 miles of track and carried over 42 million more passengers reaching 696,908,994. Freight per mile totaled 171,240,310,685 tons, about 15 billion tons more than the prior year.
Cole's Veterinary Carbolisalve advertised by druggists
A reader from St. Paul describes using Cole's Veterinary Carbolisalve on a cow injured by barbed wire. He reports pain relief after five days of milking and a quick healing of the teat wound. The ad claims quick cures for galls wounds and hair restoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jj. A. Hemnze
St. Paul
Money For Insurance and What They Receive in Insurance
The 1904 South Dakota insurance report shows foreign tire companies wrote and renewed risks totaling 45,052,716 with premiums of 983,684 and losses paid 247,994, leaving 435,990 as profit. Foreign life companies also show profits on South Dakota business, having written risk amounts of 88.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfeld Times
South Dakota
Strictly Genuine Patent Medicine Testimony Noted
The Atchison Globe reports Joe Tack, a Wichita Kiowa engineer, appeared in a photo claiming digestion relief and cancer scare solved by Itodol. He says KXodol Dyspepsia Cure digests food and cures stomach troubles, sold by L. O. Gule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Tack
Wichita
Kiowa
Tie
Itodol
L. O. Gule
Dry Bone Quote Inspires Witty Observation
Henry Ward Beecher quips that bone folks are so dry a month of soaking won’t pierce their skin, delivering a sharp, humorous take on resilience and stubbornness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ward Beecher
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mitchell
Milwaukee Road
Chamberlain
Chamberlin
Missouri River
Beelin
Congregationalists
U. S
W. Market St
Louisville
I. Suavorr
Aup Daey
E.B van Alstine
Coal and Wood
Railroad St
Milwaukee Depot
Sa. D
Insurance
Foley
Scallin
Foley & Co
J. K. Horn
Diversey Lvd
E. C. Watkins
Sexton
Methodist Church
Springfield
A. H. Davis
Mt. Sterling
Seba
PTE
Gillette
Menry Sears
Washington Pocket Knives
Queen Brand Shears
HOTEL
Widmann
Dai
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