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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
11
Mitchell Printing Co presents subscription rates dated Thursday May 20 1909. Pricing lists one copy one year in advance for one dollar and sixty cents, six months at seventy five cents, three months at thirty five cents. Includes county paper at one dollar.
Articles from the Boston Transcript New York Daily News Aberdeen News and Huronite discuss Senator Dolliver's tariff attack on the Aldrich bill. Western sentiment pushes for lower duties on wool fabrics blankets and other goods amid claims of monopoly and manipulation by manufacturers. The debate highlights tensions between western farmers and New England protectionism with calls for downward revision to aid consumers.
The piece recalls the Union Pacific fortieth anniversary and the 1869 golden spike near Ogden Utah. It notes U.S. rail mileage, capitalization, and the growth of transcontinental lines including Canadian routes. It compares U.S. and European rail capacity and cites railway employment in 1909 amid Roosevelt era peace.
A New York paper reports on the Highsters or Hal Rollers a sect with spasms of shouting and jumping causing two murders in Cornwallis Oregon and tensions in Seattle Washington and on Long Island. In Brooklyn a leader Rev. Brother Jonah Sturdivant allegedly exploits female followers while male adherents fast and die fasting contests.
Dr. D K Pearsons of Chicago plans another donation of 100000 to a local college, part of a long sequence of gifts that began 35 years ago with 50000 and later added 185000. His total benefactions exceed 8000000, mostly to this small Chicago institution.
The Pierre Capital Journal denounces Lieutenant Governor Shober for claiming Burke voted for the oil tariff. It cites Congressional Record page 1180 April 9 to prove Burke opposed the oil tariff. The paper argues Shober seeks Burke’s support and that the statement is unjustified.
Oacoma reels from talk of two rail routes Great Northern and Northern Pacific considering reaching the town as a Missouri River project forms with a Missouri river navigation firm organized with 5 million dollars capital to advance river work.
The old Duluth Pierre and Black Hills road bed may be used again. Twenty years ago the line began grading between Aberdeen and Pierre but funds ran out. The Minnesota and St. Louis road has purchased the grade and claims iron will run between Aberdeen and Pierre.
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