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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1887
Page
2
The notice lists subscription details and advertising rates for the Mitchell Capital era publication. It notes pricing per line, public notices, and free marriage and death notices, with a date of Friday May 27, 1587 and references to changes of address and subscription terms.
May 26 reports from Dakota Apraltas and Aspen Andrea note town sports and local affairs. Highlights include a baseball game with a fat men versus lean men match, college plans in Watertown, officers elected in Paris, and railroad and real estate developments around Bismarck and the Missouri Valley.
The Milwaukee line matches rival cuts with Dakota reductions of ten cents on first class freight and seven to thirteen cents on other classes. The new tariff lowers rates twelve and a half to twenty eight percent below prior schedules across divisions. Letcher Binde in Sanborn County urges South Dakota counties to showcase at Mitchell fair to boost county offerings in fruit stock and agriculture.
In Waco Texas on May 26 a group of twelve robbers assaulted the International and Great Northern at McNeils station. They disabled the engine blocked the cars and forced open the express car taking money while guards and passengers faced threats. One passenger was shot in the hand and a brakeman was grazed by a bullet before the robbers fled on horseback delaying the train about thirty minutes.
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