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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
5
Fragmented text mentions bottles and cures with numbers like 1 and 2 50. Several words are garbled including references to kidneys and chemistry. No clear event or person is identifiable from the readable snippets.
The Mitchell area ad pages tout seasonable goods at low prices at Weil Bros. offering dry goods, carpets, clothing, boots and shoes. They promote Butterick patterns and urge readers to visit for bargains while promising customer satisfaction.
Col. Woodford spoke to a full courthouse audience on gospel temperance and total abstinence arguing against liquor use. He cited baseball, insurance, and English life companies to support prohibition and noted he would address the local option issue in upcoming talks. He will repeat the address tonight at the same venue.
An Aberdeen insurance man who toured Dakota towns tells the Republican his blunt views. Sioux Falls lacks Aberdeen's vigor, Mitchell booms on but hears of Aberdeen's growth, Huron is steady yet slow, Manitoba entry stirs minor real estate trades, Yankton could rise with Aberdeen workers, and overall Aberdeen is named a stem-winder.
The Choral society will not meet until Thursday evening November 10 to begin another term of practice. Members and all who sing are invited to join. The place will be announced in the Daily Republic. Special program includes a duet and quartet arranged by local directors.
J G Helwig reports eight cows dying suddenly in one night with signs suggesting poisoning. The cattle were sick, ran, then collapsed, and strayed. Rewards offered for information leading to recovery. W H Bines Mt Vernon Dak. Elocution teacher Miss Hattie Taylor to give in Dakota university.
Instruction in all branches emphasizes voice training and natural reading. Pupils are admitted at all times and encouraged to develop clear, expressive reading skills under expert guidance.
A Tuesday meeting at fire department headquarters organized broader city business involvement to improve efficiency. Officers elected include Chief W. G. Davison and assistants John Stephens and W. B. Jacobs, with Elmer Miller secretary and D. W. Ward treasurer. Hose companies will reorganize while recruits increase prospects for a stronger Mitchell’s fire department.
In Pleasant Ridge area reports reflect a busy autumn with temperance speeches by Rev. Clark and Rev. Sage in Mitchell and Lisbon events urging voters to back the prohibition ticket. A W.O. I.U. meeting at Mrs. W. Griffith’s home succeeded, and a free lunch for Lisbon town voters was planned at the polls. An old physician promotes a homemade remedy for consumption and related ailments, offering to mail it free of charge from Rochester New York, with contact details. A lost white cow with a blue neck and nose is sought after the fire, reward offered through this office by Thomas Tillson.
Immediate purchase offer calls for three carloads of flax straw bailed in tight bales at Mitchell with cash paid on delivery. Call at this office at once to complete the deal.
The Mitchell Packing Co announces: Hogs wanted at once, paying 33.90 to 34.25 per hundredweight. Collect hogs nationwide today. Also offering top cash for one thousand bushels of potatoes, dealer Gro. FE Letcher of Mitchell Dakota.
Sucklen s Arnica Salve touted as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and promises to cure piles with money refunded if no effect. Sold by L O Garr.
Mitchell Printing has secured rights in the city for the Sancrofti M non mutilation process and now prints beautiful designs from movable type. The office offers lithograph quality at one fifth the cost and handles stocks, bonds, certificates, and all commercial printing at standard rates. Samples are available at the office for public inspection.
The committees collecting for the forthcoming Catholic fair report strong success in recent meetings. Chandler, Faulkner and More Co donate a 350 stove and Randall and Wheelock contribute an 840 bedroom set. Father Sheehan offers a crayon portrait of the Right Rev. Bishop Marty valued at 330.
The notice lists reading limits from November 1 to 15 and page ranges for Smith and Barnes texts, then states butter orders will be received at Ethan until March 25, 1888, signed by S.S. BATELY.
An aged medical advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a prescription by a noted nurse and physician in the United States. It claims forty years of use by millions of mothers and asserts relief from teething pain and cures for dysentery diarrhoea griping wind and colic. Price 25c a bottle.
Advertises Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites as a tastier remedy for consumption scrofula bronchitis and debility claiming physicians worldwide endorse it. Includes testimonial about Pond's Extract cures and notes Shiloh products with local seller L. O. Gale and offers a nasal injector with Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy.
An advertisement or slogan traces Casteria as a remedy used from infancy to motherhood. It asserts repeated trust as a household cure for illness and distress across generations.
Notices from Mitchell Dakota detail settler final proof filings and witnesses across multiple parcels. Henry J Booth aries 9-103-59 and Gro B Everitt is register. other claimants include Aries F Blackman John R Caster Wm Henry Grady with witnesses from Mitchell and nearby towns.
Detroit Free Press reports Bret Gardner’s address at the Limekiln Club condemning perceived extravagance by women and its alleged harm to homes and finances. He cites a local dislodge member’s disappearance and warns against fashion, debt, and social pretensions driving families toward ruin.
Readable snippets show humorous and sentiment soaked want ads from an Australian Victorian paper. The pleas seek amiable aging widows with meals from restaurants, industrious families for general housework, a baby needing a nurse, and socialite circles with pedigree. Ads parody social pretensions and rigid expectations, quoting imagined applicants like Overtasked and Deportment.
A collage of brief quotes on sentiment ambition and manners from various papers. The snippets show a couple strolling in love talk, a young man chasing wealth, a joke about Nero, reflections on English courtesy, a railroad sign cost comparison, and press contrasts in New York papers.
The article reports on Bernhardt losing her voice permanently, Mya Goodwin touring in a Kidder comedy, and Royalities paid to American dramatists since 1677. It notes Coquelin's farewell engagements in Europe, Bamay’s American visit with a $1000 nightly rate, Mackay to create Holly in She at Niblo's, and Langtry's divorce risk. It mentions Minnie Palmer, Mary Anderson, and Elsie Leslie, plus actors Jefferson and Barker, Balfe’s relation, Herrmann’s westward boom, and Miner bringing new calcium lighting to New York theatres with a leading system from England.
The piece catalogs jewel designs from silver mussel-shell salt holders to oxidized silver lawn tennis rackets turned into lace pins. It notes star sapphires in diamond daisies, black oxidized silver pieces with diamonds, a golden street lamp top scarf pin, a pearl-centered lace pin, platina and gold cuff buttons, hairpin knots, enamel Edelweiss with a diamond center, and various pendants, brooches, and girdles in precious stones.
Whistier the London artist reportedly paints a Buffalo Bill portrait. Paris School grants women access to drawing and modeling. Munkacsy Angell join Kaiser Franz Joseph’s Arts and Letters order. Belgian Robert Fleury at 89 still paints. Marie Regnault’s furniture to be auctioned. England houses the oldest portraits dating 1380 and 1405. The Thiers monument at Pere Lachaise praised as finest chapel. Parks arrives with Hendricks bust. doubt on likeness may doom approval. Umbrella as war tool noted from Bodyke to Plevna with Osman Pasha in action in reports from the New York Sun.
General Garfield preferred six months in a tent with Mark Hopkins and bread and water over a six year course at a continental university. The remark highlights a bridge between frontier pragmatism and elite education.
The piece catalogs evolving style obsessions and social trends such as hats and cigar cases at a West Point gathering. It notes street sales of Golden and ching asters, candlelit drawing rooms, net hair coverings, white furniture symbols of propriety, electric watches for maids, silver blade dessert knives, watch chains reappearing, London dyed furs, illuminated vellum wedding invitations, and other 1887-88 fashion foibles across New York and London. It also mentions India shawls price rises, tripods from Alpen stocks for hall decoration, the return of the square dining table, moire antique fabric in demand, and a new St. Petersburg cloak in circulation, with Holland-made hall clocks.
This excerpt from the New York Mail and Express offers aphorisms on religion education happiness money health and character. It contrasts honest employment and frugality with vice and prejudice while noting how knowledge can deepen virtue or depravity.
Miss Alice M. Longfellow daughter of the Post is elected to the Cambridge school committee. Attorney General Garland’s daughter Daisy will debut in Washington society this season. Annie Mercer of Missaukee County Michigan stands tall at twelve years, described as a giantess. A German women’s congress planned at Augsburg seeks female employment, education, and civil equality. An American girl from Pennsylvania, Meare, is Hamburg’s reigning beauty, declined to be presented to the Prince of Wales.
A St Paul Pioneer Press gossip item claims a method to test egg freshness by wiping the large end clean and touching the tongue to the center of that end to feel a warm spot if the egg is good. The note cites a New York Star warning on disease spread by second hand books and a Cedar Rapids feat by Dr Carver breaking 100 glass balls in 2 minutes 15 seconds.
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