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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
10
Spring weather spikes catarrh cases and Hyomei promises home treatment without stomach dosing. The ad touts a pocket inhaler and antiseptic inhaled air for rapid relief with a money back guarantee. Complete outfit costs $1.00, extra bottles 40 cents.
Davison county commissioners will meet in special session at the county auditor’s office Saturday morning May 30 1905 to open bridge bids and attend to any other business before the board. Dated this 1st day of May 1905. Q. D. Stearns County Auditor.
Crops look good amid drought fears as corn planting continues. Visits include W H Butts and wife at Hiram Wells and Dr. Smith from Mitchell checking a sick horse. Loomis ball team to play Riverside on Saturday May 20 with Odell grandchildren visiting grandparents Crippen and sister.
L. W. Ballard of Ballard & Son visited Graceland cemetery to set monuments for Mrs. A. Nak inger Mrs. J. S. Besancon N. J. Buijer Earl son of J. Vickers Mrs. J. C. Kelso and Mrs. Frances A. Foster. The firm advertises a large stock and offers credit for travel to buyers in Sioux Falls. Rev. A. Sundberg ordered a large family monument for his lot in Sales 8 D Memorial for his late wife.
Mitchell residents report the Mitchell Isoiller and Iron Works abandoned negotiations to buy the Mitchell Iron Works. George Summers sold the property to his son Frank, prompting the new firm to start construction. A 50 by 80 foot two story frame building with corrugated iron will house modern machinery. J J McDougall will head operations, returning to Mitchell from Sioux City. The plant aims to serve a large surrounding market with machinery repairs.
A Kansas newspaper note from the Atchison Globe features engineer Joe Tick, who rode the Missouri Pacific between Wichita and Kiowa. Tick reports dramatic stomach pain relief after using IXodol Dyspepsia Cure, claiming it cured him and others. The ad urges the product as a universal digestant sold by LL. O. Guile.
Racing is canceled as Driving Park Association abandons June meetings after storm damage. They will remove buildings to safety lots to salvage investment, saying racing has run deficits in recent years and Mitchell cannot sustain a losing venture.
The twentieth Century Club hosted a second Japanese evening at Mrs C G Rathbun s Lane with members in period dress. A social hour followed a program of club activities and refreshments were served in a room decorated Japan style with Japanese flag napkins and themed favors. Cole s Carboli salve advertised for cold relief and nasal use with a stated guarantee and drugstore availability.
On April six 1905 Mrs Henry McCoy aged over 70 years died at her home in What Cheer Iowa after months of intercostal neuralgia pleurisy and heart disease. She and her husband lived on Fourth Avenue East Mitchell where she was loved as a kind neighbor and member of the First Baptist Church. Eight or nine years ago they moved to What Cheer where she joined the local Baptist church and remained faithful until death. Plankinton papers please copy B Morse.
An advertisement touts Cole's Cough Cure as a guaranteed remedy for coughs. It claims the product prevents pneumonia and consumption and is sold by druggists for 25 or 40 cents.
An ancient advertisement warns that hot weather and bad water worsen piles and urges use of DeWitt Wittel Hazel salve. The copy claims the product stops pain draws out soreness and cures, directing readers to BK C DeWitt Co and L C Gale.
Special train leaves Mitchell at 8 34 a m Sunday May 21 returning from Chamberlain at 6 p m same day Excursion tickets good only on this train. Baseball game Hawarden versus Hartley at 230 p m Pontoon bridge fare ten cents round trip to excursionists New railroad pontoon bridge under construction Indians in native costumes featured Details from C M & St P railway.
Mitchell resolves to oppose any move to transfer tariff setting from railways to a political commission. It notes railways spur western development and immigration, cites Milwaukee Road and North Western responses, and urges enforcement of existing interstate law over rate-control changes.
Rev H S Wilkinson continues Sunday evening sermons for women. The latest address praised the effort and highlighted points on home life and extravagance among two young married couples.
An old advertisement extols Cole's Carboli soap as a luxury bath item that cools heals and cleanses with lavender and violet fragrance. It urges readers to use the soap to become its friend and claims no other compares, urging purchase by all druggists.
A terse observation by Ralph Waldo Emerson frames conversation as a contest among minds. The line emphasizes intellectual competition and the broad field of humanity as challengers.
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