Advance Prices and L SYSTEM Label Warrant Pledge
A brief notice emphasizes advance prices and the L SYSTEM label as a warrant of worth and a pledge of perfection in pricing and labeling standards.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
14
A brief notice emphasizes advance prices and the L SYSTEM label as a warrant of worth and a pledge of perfection in pricing and labeling standards.
Deadwood Pioneer Times reports hundreds of Elks will gather in August with rewards of 500 shares of Black Hills mining stock for the tallest and shortest entrants. A Dakota Elk cup for largest lodge representation and a $20 window-decor prize are also planned. Events include a special train arrival August 17, speeches, a grand ball, Spearfish barbecue, and lodge visits in Lead.
W A Barber, former educator and Dakota Wesleyan normal graduate who taught in Mitchell and Minnesota, recently sold his hardware store and moved to Osmond to join his brother’s bank. A respected teacher and public citizen, he leaves the education field for a more lucrative avocation, and Mitchell laments his departure yet wishes him success.
A London Punch skit shows a Royal Irish Constabulary sergeant drilling a recruit. The sergeant tests courage asking if a desperate attacker would force a fight, the recruit replies he would not, prompting a chuckle from the sergeant.
William Lansing killed his wife near Presho and was captured 22 miles north of Presho. he resisted capture and was shot in the chest, dying minutes later. Captain Lavender recounts the crime and the path to discovery as investigators uncovered the woman's body hidden under a beam. The motive appears linked to a divorce proceeding and a family moved from a nearby claim.
R A Jackson a Columbia County legislator known as the sheep king of the Tukanon claims the world record for the largest single fleece weighing 67 pounds 5 ounces. He also reports three clips totaling 142 pounds from Rambouillet sheep. The wool will be part of Columbia county’s exhibit at the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition in Seattle.
The speaker denies disguising as Miss Dittman and confirms boarding the same train with friend Mr. Schwartz. They travelled to Chicago with aid from friends, were not married in Mitchell, but wed May 4 at the sister's home. Schwartz fought a fair but unsuccessful contest.
The Republican reported on the Presho elopement of Miss Bertha Dittman and Arthur Muchow, clarified by his Sioux Falls statement that consent and prior affection led to a Chicago marriage at his sister’s home. Separately, Sioux City Journal recounts South Dakota liquor history from statewide prohibition to local option and dispensary episodes through 1900.
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