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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
13
The advertisement promotes perfect fitting underwear for spring and summer with options in Balbriggan Lisle Sea Island Cotton and athletic styles. It offers full and short sleeves knee length drawers and multiple fabric weights with prices from 25c to $2.00 per garment.
Governor Vessey’s Mothers Day proclamation spurred church services in Mitchell. Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist and other congregations filled sanctuaries with flowers, music, and sermons honoring Christian motherhood and the role of mothers in history.
The government’s new Canada description lists 74 farmers in Sunny Southern Alberta with winter wheat yields from 30 to 66 percent per bush el and an average of 47 bushels per acre in 1908. The O. W. Kerr Co offers weekly Minneapolis to Lethbridge round trips at 20 dollars, with contact at 321 Main Street Mitchell South Dakota and Minneapolis main office.
The New York Press notes US intervention in Cuba has cost about 6 million dollars. It states the president can receive from Cuba amounts to reimburse the United States as Cuba's treasury can pay, implying a potential dispute over the meaning of the final six words between Cuba's treasury secretary and the US president.
Memorial Sunday and Decoration Day will be observed closely this year with Decoration Day on May 31 and Memorial Sunday held the Sunday before. G A R and W R C members plan services in the Congregational church, with A Craig Bowdish delivering the Memorial Sunday sermon and Dr John L Seaton chosen for the Decoration Day address.
At a Cincinnati music festival the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven featured a feared vocal quartet the performance the quartet includes Mme Sembrich, Mme Schumann-Heink, Ben Davies and David Bispham. A rehearsal planned with Theodore Thomas was missed leaving the artists awaiting a last minute substitute before the show.
The report lists wheat prices at No. 2 1.10 No. 8 1.07 and 1.03 for rejected, velvet chaff 1.07 durum 94c flax 1.47 ots 50c corn 60c barley 55c rye 69c.
A Buick carrying two young ladies and two men collided with a team entering a narrow driveway near the Gale theatre. One wheel dropped into a ditch, the car halted, a passenger bruised but not seriously hurt, and all four occupants later left for Phillip, South Dakota. Front axle and steering rod damage repaired at Mitchell Auto & Supply Co.
The eleventh annual convention of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Mitchell District Methodist church convened in Scotland on Friday May 7. Attending from Mitchell were Mesdames Vermilyea Evans Norton Gilliland Lunn Carhart Erskine and Misses.
An editorial from the New York World argues that even well meant philanthropy can backfire as human perversity sometimes drives wrong outcomes. The piece notes reducing mischief by good intentions could lessen overall error in society.
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