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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
3
Classified notices include a young man seeking a farm at once with partial contact details, a pin set offer, a personal ad describing a 19 year old farmer's daughter with inheritance, and a dressmaking school notice by Mrs Clara Arnesson offering evening classes and draft system patterns for the term beginning in May.
Notice is given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Fullerton Lumber company will be held at the head office in Mitchell on Tuesday, June 1, 1915. J. G. Fullerton, President.
Lincoln Mrs Olive Hubbard known as Mother Hubbard will be ninety one on June 24. A long time Mormon at seventy seven years she belonged to the nonpolygamous branch. She knew Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and heard them preach. She says Smith never preached polygamy and Young did not teach it until after Smith's death. She endured pioneer life in Thailand? and is widow of a Civil War Union soldier who served three years.
Washington inspectors of the labor department must not accept gifts from candidates for naturalization, including cigars and drinks. A department statement mocks the practice of donors using gifts to influence renunciation of allegiance, noting a local official’s placards prohibiting cigars in the process.
May 30 to June 2 marked Dakota Wesleyan commencement with summer school June 7 to July 16. Corn Palace events run Sept 27 to Oct 2. Graceland Cemetery rules will strictly prohibit defacing graves with boxes shells jars novelties toys cans or glass. Arthur Allen superintendent. Also for sale a six room house on East side with furnace cistern lights poultry yard lawn trees shrubs and easy terms. Address 82525.
A Mitchell gathering on June 7 and 8 aims to form a state Parent Teachers organization. National leaders Mrs. Schoss Mrs. Higgins and Mrs. Bright will speak, with Governor Byrne and Mrs. Byrne expected to attend.
Memorial Day events are set for next Monday with a morning parade to cemeteries north of town and afternoon exercises at city hall at 3 o'clock. Frank W Mitchell will speak, Miss Mabble Price will direct the high school glee club, and music will be provided by Louis Lovinger and Stanley Vermyie.
Forty three students will receive degrees from Dakota Wesleyan this spring across the college of liberal arts commerce and music and the academy. Academy exercises begin Saturday evening in the chapel with a reception afterward. College degrees are conferred Wednesday June 2. Names include Alfred Ray Beck Lilian Agnes Charlesworth Melvin Leslie Chase Nattie Jane Colton Howard Jennings Harris George Frederick Hatch Charles Franklin Lester Walter Joseph McClarkon Ruby Lillian Mills Ruth Marie Niebuhr Alta Mae Pearson Clara Belle Piper Erskine Herman Robertson Blanche Rynearson Clara Tomena Thompson Ralph Bates Waite Gardner Hubbard Watkins Walter Greene Way and Claus Seetze Zoodsma. Normal department graduates include Anna Ester Balien Lula Mae Campbell Flora Cooper Laura Ann Dawson Hawarden Ruby Bette Hastings Nettie Helen Johnson Flora McKennon Bonnie Annie Laurie Martin Helen Ester Pond Louise Rathbun Alicia Lillian Smith. Normal music department graduates include Florence Brodstrup Ruby Hastings Andover. Academy fourth year students Mary Thompson Presho Helmuth Maag Temple...
Fragmentary OCR reads a sequence of personal and place names including Todnem, Aura Colton, Hazel, Samuel, Spearfish, Garden City, Canistota, Cocha Bamba, Elivia and others with a trailing currency symbol. No coherent event or context is discernible from the readable text.
The article notes a debate topic on immigration testing to be used in next year’s high school contests across the state. Sioux Falls won this year’s state debate title by defeating Sisseton, with southeastern district schools listed among participants and teams from Mitchell, Yankton, Flandreau, Canton, Madison and Sioux Falls.
The piece chronicles Helen Woodruff once blinded, who learned to “see through her fingers,” wrote the famed Lighthouse story aiding the blind, and later regained sight through a specialist. Her gratitude spurred lifelong work for the New York Association for the Blind and its Lighthouse project.
A fragmentary baseball item mentions players Humphries Standridge Bresnahan Alexandria and Whillifer in a roster style list. The text is partial and lacks a clear event date location or outcome.
Fragmentary OCR shows names Gallia Hooper Ainsmith Boland Dubue Stanage tied to a Detroit sale. Limited readable context suggests an exhibit index or listing for an auditing and treasurer’s sale event with several named individuals.
Chas Fowler, Treasurer, sworn that the exhibit shown is a true and correct statement of Davison County's financial condition as appears by his books. Subscribed and sworn to before S. Cattrele, Clerk of Circuit Court, on the third day of May, 1915.
Davison County presents a quarterly balance sheet listing school funds loaned secured by mortgages and lands, no bank deposits, cash on hand, warrants issued and outstanding, interest, and bonds. Auditor J M Crampton swears the figures reflect assets, liabilities, and warrants drawn, with sworn date in May 1914.
Advertisement claims Dr King’s New Discovery quickly stops a child’s cough and soothes cold symptoms. It promises to boost strength and guarantees results, stating the balsams nature works for any severity or duration of cough.
The article argues America leads in eyeglasses usage with five Americans wearing glasses to each person in other nations. It claims blindness declined over 200 percent since glasses became common, while other countries see rising blindness. It cautions that eyes require careful professional attention.
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