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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
2
The notice lists subscription terms for one year at varying prepay times, club with leading publications at low prices, address change requirements, and office correspondence timing. It details advertising rates, business cards, local ads, legal notices, and free marriage and death notices with per line charges for other items. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 1897.
Governor Lee’s bid against Mayhew et al drew charges of political maneuvering. Voter verdicts across eight judicial circuits favored Republicans in six, with Democrats and Populists winning two seats. The staunch portrayal of railroad influence faded as results rolled in.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat credits the Union Pacific decision with the government receiving all it was entitled to after decades of investment. It praises McKinley era aims to protect public interests and notes the railroad’s broader value and future gains for the nation. The Madison Chautauqua faces debt troubles as J. E. Moore holds a $6,000 mortgage and may foreclose if cash or secured paper isn’t produced. Weather shifts from last year with milder conditions aiding wheat harvest as spring care continues.
A Centerville Journal reader reports former public instruction head Cortez Salmon now in Florida. He and his family are in good health and recovering from earlier financial reverses after trusting too much to others. He teaches the village school at Mount Dora for $70 a month and sends regards to Centerville friends.
Health and strength carry us through danger and make us safe in the presence of peril. A perfectly strong man with rich pure blood has nothing to fear from germs. Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery purifies the blood and supports digestion, building up tissue resistance. Send 21 stamps to World's Dispensary Medical Association for a free copy of The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser.
Early 1900s style advertisement claims catarrh signals danger and results from impure blood. It asserts external cures fail and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier that cures catarrh by removing impurities, citing “thousands” of testimonials.
The ad touts Electric Bitters as a universal cure all for back pain kidneys malaria and nervous troubles claiming rapid self cure. It highlights a nurse’s cool handling of a mistaken poison dose and a patient’s rescue showcasing calm emergency response.
In Switzerland a milkmaid or milkmade earns more if she has a good voice. It is said that a cow yields one fifth more milk when soothed during milking by a pleasing melody, a discovery claimed to improve dairy work.
A playful exchange in the Chicago Tribune ponders the origin of the phrase Blue Island misnaming a conductor. A child challenges the nickname while a parent explains with a quick punchline, revealing the humor of mistaken place names.
In a London Answers snippet, a niece shows Uncle Tom wedding presents and warns against duplicates. She reveals Papa’s £500 cheque as a chosen gift, while Uncle Tom jokes about avoiding a duplicate by sending £100 instead. The exchange reflects family customs and gift etiquette.
A poem fragment extols a luminous figure rising from the sea to light, praising beauty, joy, and peace. It contrasts the day’s fleeting dawn with a nobler fate, declaring nature the true Daughter of God and urging steadfast gaze toward rising splendor. Poem by W. P. Trent in Dial.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quote notes detectives rely on patterns, not novelty, as criminals imitate proven schemes. The Hazen case dialogue reveals a forger once left clues by cutting scraps from newspapers, showing how a criminal’s routine can guide lawmen to capture him.
Pearson's Weekly recalls Japanese wrestlers as giants weighing 14 to 24 stone. In Tokyo at the Imperial hotel a champion wrestler is described as prodigious in size and strength but cherubic in appearance. He says he eats only rice and that meat weakens. one meal of lean beefsteak saps strength while rice sustains him.
Miss Anna T Hayes of Louisville supervises her father’s 200 acre farm. She develops a dedicated breed of pigs for state market hams. Pigs fattened on sterilized milk meat and apples, kept at uniform weight, with hams cured on the farm. She uses her college background to run the operation efficiently.
Medical Mirror advises restraint in kissing to curb microbe spread. It urges mouths mainly for eating and speech, while noses warm air and protect lungs. The piece notes many microbes inhabit the mouth and promotes aseptic kissing within family circles.
A quoted exchange from the Typographical Journal notes a barber’s wife appears influential, citing that the outfit has two wheels, one a woman’s wheel and the other a tandem. The passage also mentions Russian colonization and the village mir allowing female heads of households to vote.
M. Geron a Parisian grocer captured a waiter who confessed he knew no fowl in chicken croquettes and refused to reveal the goulache formula. The exchange led to police involvement as Geron pressed for the culinary mysteries of restaurant cookery.
In Vienna a 500 foot high tower houses a toposcope that uses a telescope linked to a levered sextant system to read fire signals. The device allows rapid reading of the city’s optics to relay precise spot details to the central station. Local conditions are favorable and provide an almost complete city view for alert observing.
A young Indianapolis widow hosted a dinner party with abundant flowers. After a guest noted the floral display, she revealed she would place the blooms on a poor relative’s grave at Crow Hill tomorrow, shocking the table with the somber plan.
The article notes hothouse grapes as the costliest fruit, often 76 cents per pound or more, with February and March prices reaching up to ten dollars per pound. Hothouse peaches fetch about 2.50 per fruit in February, dropping to roughly 60 cents each by spring. It also describes a practice in European cities where police send suspects away on a train during major festivals, a method Japan has adopted.
The passage notes War ren county as the oddest shaped of eight thousand counties, while Tennet lies centrally in the state and is nearly a perfect circle among land divisions.
Mrs J M Hatch of Etna New Hampshire recounts neuralgia and extensive scrofula sores on the face neck arms and limbs that healed after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. She notes the sores disappeared within months and only a single scar remains while neuralgia also vanished.
Tinsel fabrics are priced from 75 cents to 2.50 a yard with brass gold threads and white metal silver threads. gold and silver brocades, silk body, fetch up to 50 a yard and rarely over 12 in the US. Most elaborate pieces are imported from France and Germany for church vestments and decorative use.
The notices announce an unpaid 30 percent assessment on First National Bank stock in Mitchell due November 2 1897, with sale on December 14 1897. Additional chattel mortgage sales and foreclosures list Amos Lamb Davison County mortgage defaults, a Champion binder and farm goods to be sold November 13 1897, and a Sheriff sale of Davison County real estate on November 19 1897. Writs and foreclosures target Zimri Paris and others, with a mortgage sale scheduled November 27 1897. Assignees Maria L Quigley and E J Quigley appear in the notices.
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