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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
7
A garbled May Day note from city officials highlights community pride and a call for residents to join in upcoming civic events. Officials stress unity and commemorations with a focus on public service and neighborhood cooperation.
The November Century issues feature Kennan’s English edition on Russian liberals and a Washington frontispiece by Wright. It highlights sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, portraits, and a critical note by Kenyon Cox, with fiction by Eggleston Cable and Bishop. St Nicholas presents Alcott stories, essays on Jules Bastien-Lepage, Pocahontas, and Napoleonic tales amid poems and illustrations.
Executive Council in Yankton issues instruction for the upcoming Dakota election ballot. It urges a single ballot form covering division and prohibition queries, notes county printing specifics, and calls on division supporters to organize, canvass, and ensure ample ballots and turnout.
Milwaukee & St Paul General Manager Oswell Miller visited the city to assess lumber rate cuts and current fall business volume. He argued railroads warrant regulation while noting disparities in milk price shares and the limits of regulating retailers. He pointed to flour freight examples and questioned the interstate commerce commission circular.
The Yankton Press cites central Dakota prohibitionists who decline to engage in division matters, signaling a willingness to ride down any division that blocks their agenda. The piece notes the stubborn, uncompromising tone within the temperance cause as it conflicts with broader political alignment.
The Devils Lake Inter Ocean notes that Fargo and Bismarck papers avoid discussing division and asks if the Northern Pacific road opposes division. It argues the NP and its supporters have controlled territorial affairs and questions whether they should continue to do so.
Emigrant wagons arriving in Dakota bear the label From Wisconsin and Starvation to Dakota and Salvation. The influx follows a drought-stricken region, with Dakota seen as a strong draw for settlers from crop-failed areas in the neighboring states.
Advert says Dr Pigree’s pellets remove pimples and eruptions, relieve constipation, restore appetite, and regulate the system. Claims they are purely vegetable and harmless while powerful to charge and purify the body, with disease becoming unknown. Sold by all druggists.
The Yankton Press notes a mock official meeting by a so called board of trustees for the Yankton insane asylum. They toured the hospital, demanded vouchers, found none ready, and adjourned after three hours without settling debts. Plans for wings were discussed but no decision made.
The Rapid City Daily Journal comments on a potential Pratt appointment to replace Judge Francis, noting Dakota residency influences but urging a fair division. It urges a cautious approach and frames the issue as a political balance with large returns from small outlays. It closes with an unrelated promotional pitch for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claiming blood benefits.
At a Kansas City reception Mrs. Cleveland was overheard saying to Grover Cleveland that he was off the rug. The remark sparked chatter about decorum and social proprieties among attendees.
The passage notes Grover was "off the tug" when ordering the return of battle flags, and adds Judge Palmer "got off the rug" for contempt toward patent inside weeklies. It also mentions General Allen, who is described as electioneering so much that the rug might never have been under him.
Pierre Free Press argues local option is not prohibition and may leave adjacent areas unregulated. It urges territorial prohibition, citing failures of local option in other states, and warns the delay harms youths and opens bars. The piece cites New York Voice and Mary A. Woodbridge and calls for unified action to achieve territorial prohibition soon.
The piece extols Dakota farmers investing in hogs cattle sheep and horses as a path to corn success. It notes Dakota’s corn area reaching beyond prior bounds, cites tripling production 1884–1887, and claims Dakota corn outproduced several states in 1887. It praises corn quality rich in albuminoids and nitrogen and references a U S Department of Agriculture analysis. It ends with a tie to the California Fig Syrup Company advertisement style claims
In the last month or two several Nebraska old settlers who sold improved lands at good figures have come to the Hills country to settle. They are well fixed financially and can establish comfortable homes. They came because local home consumption of farmer produce exists here. The absence of a home market was a major obstacle to Nebraska farming for years. The men who prospered in Nebraska farming may prosper here as well. They are desirable settlers and are welcome.
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