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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1895
Page
4
Local parish and business notices detail subscription prices for The Mitchell Capital and other leading publications, with annual rates, club offers, address change rules, and advertising costs. A November 15, 1895 issue also reports political and social items from South Dakota and surrounding states.
Aberdeen citizens held a mass meeting Saturday to promote a railroad extension from Aberdeen to Pierre and then to the Black Hills. A committee was chosen to attend a convention in St Paul later this month, signaling likely progress on the old capital railway scheme backed by St Paul magnates.
The article reports Sioux Falls refusing to seek the fair and promising a grandest estate fair in October despite questions of repudiating a contract with the state fair board. It notes alleged purloining of the contract by the Sioux Falls committee and the city’s mockery of the board.
The essay questions Christian union progress, arguing that efforts toward church unity may fail by prioritizing institutional aims over true faith. It notes papal resistance without primacy submission and Canterbury’s insistence on creed and establishment. The piece contends preserving diverse worship and social customs is essential to English church life.
The Courier-Journal argues democracy faces a test in Kentucky as the state votes Republican for the first time in three decades. It calls for disciplined, moral leadership, cleansing corruption, and new leaders who focus on the future. warns against party infighting and urges Democrats to endure, reform, and regroup with resolve.
The November Cosmopolitan forecasts a complete transport overhaul using light corrugated iron cylinders to cut grain freight charges from the West to New York by 50 to 60 percent. The plan envisions inexpensive, deployable shipping cylinders transforming freight logistics.
The clipping discusses low cost rail concepts with a simple rail system carrying grain in continuous cylinder lines, predicting cheaper grain transport. It cites the Cosmopolitan on streetcars disappearing before horseless carriages and a one dollar per day labor bill. It also reports a Ford sermon in St. Louis Michigan with baseball imagery and notes on murder trials in Philadelphia and silence around Corbett and Fitz.
Louis Thompson expected home from Norway while O C Thompson heads to Valparaiso Indiana for schooling. John Graves loses four horses to a fence and must euthanize. Revival meetings planned near Mt Vernon and Victor. Endeavor event draws seventy five attendees with badge gifts and a sermon. Local residents return from North Dakota and Minnesota for work and visits.
The item notes Fred Hatch of Bridgewater and the Hatch Bros. youth as part of winter schooling. Freddie Scott breaks an arm in a horse incident near the elbow with a dislocated joint. Cattle deals include D. W. Greene of Rapid City purchasing 5 head from C. F. Raymond for Greene & Doty of Cold Spring Stockarm, a 1000 acre Black Hills ranch. Frasier has Mitchell's road grader near the lake.
R. D. Welch, Jack Beattie and John Wood from Mitchell hunted geese and brant and bagged several. The rest of the column notes local society events, school board debates over moving Peck schoolhouse, family visits, a wagon runaway with children, dances, and various social notices.
A British newspaper opens columns to a lament from a schoolmaster, claiming low pay and poor conditions while noting generous profits by his benefactor who funds a private school. The letter rails at underfunded education and the future of graduates, contrasting with rich subsidies and limited public support.
Eczema described as the great skin disease with severe itching burning cracking and bleeding. The text asserts Cuticura remedies provide instant relief and better sleep, recommending warm bath and blood purifier usage as a claimed cure.
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