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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
10
A flurry of visits and travel fills Mitchell city news. Miss Nona Bartow of Plankinton visits her uncle J F Bartow. Mrs. Jane Mason returns to Aberdeen. Indian ball club planned for June. a party of Mitchell Red Men assist 13 candidates in Alexandria lodge initiation.
Brown's Business College in Sioux City was sold to KA Boynton after Mrs. Connelly filed an attachment for $80,038. Sheriff Swindler took possession, debts were settled, and Boynton named J. L. Wingfield as principal of the commercial department and Mrs. Connelly as head of shorthand and typewriting, renaming the school Wingfield Connelly Business College.
The advertisement emphasizes blood quality as key to health and stamina. It promotes Scott and Bowne cod liver oil emulsion as restorative, claiming it nourishes the whole body and restores strength when blood is poor. A free sample offer is included with price details.
The article describes scrofula as commonly inherited and prevalent in children and adults. It lists indicators such as neck swellings, abscesses, skin eruptions, inflamed eyelids, sore ears, rickets, catarrh, wasting, and general debility.
A Parker City Indiana letter touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills as highly effective with a daughter cured of scrofula after eleven sores on her neck and ears. The testimonial asserts the medicine eradicates disease and keeps its promise to cure.
The reception for students started this afternoon and work resumed where it left off. Miss Zadia Brown arrives from Sioux City to join as assistant instructor in typewriting and shorthand. Mr. Boynton intends to push the college forward with a generous education offer, while Mr. Wingfield and Mrs. Connelly lead in their branches, promising a strong future amid growing enrollment.
A used boring machine is offered with the seller ready to train the buyer on the first job. Several jobs await the machine. For details contact K. W. Travis at the secondhand store in the old Tobin feed and seed building on South Main Street Mitchell South Dakota. We Say and sell second hand goods.
A Mitchell traveler reports the Carpenter and Sanborn ranch near Pukwane will plant about 1606 acres of corn this season with some sorghum and no wheat. They use six to eight row planters, aiming to finish eight acres a day per sister machine. If successful, 600 head of steers will be fattened for Chicago market this fall and winter.
Miss Erma Young of Mitchell South Dakota and A F Rattenberg of Anita were married last Thursday at the home of Rev BE Hill. They will reside in Anita after the ceremony. The groom is with Raffenberg Bros stock firm and the bride is warmly welcomed by his friends. The Atlantic Iowa Telegraph extends congratulations to the couple.
Ad copy asserts all women should strive to be beautiful and promotes Rocky Mountain Tea as a cream giving a creamy blooming complexion. Includes stray letters and punctuation suggesting fragmented ad language.
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