Subscription rates and notices in The Mitchell Capital
The Mitchell Capital lists subscription prices for various terms, advertising rates, and local notices. It notes a Friday, November 26, 1897 issue with reports from Minneapolis about bribery charges, moves of Centerville Journal, Aberdewn News plans, and South Dakota political developments. It mentions H. L. Loucks’s rebuke of his party and shifts in fusion politics.
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Centerville Journal
Wass
Aberdewn News
South Dakota
H. L. Loucks
Mitchell
A. D
T. J. Spangler
Circuit Court
Davison County
King Responds to Senator in Open Letter Over Homestead Claims
John H. King of Chamberlain writes an open letter to Senator Kyle denying accusations of dishonesty in securing funds from farmers to support the free homestead bill. He accuses Kyle of fabrications and political maneuvering while declaring unwavering republican principles and demanding honest backing for the movement.
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John H. King
Chamberlain
Sisseton
King
Kyle
Mr. King
South Dakota
Republic
Messrs
Knowles
Kelley
Senate
Rural Free Delivery Advocated by Postmaster General
The Chicago Record notes that Postmaster General Gary urges extending free rural delivery after successful experiments. He stresses benefits for farming communities, arguing mail collection and delivery to every farmhouse should begin soon to bring farms closer to the outside world.
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Chicago Record
Gary
Rural free delivery urged by postmaster general
The policy of rural free delivery should be approved by Congress and quickly implemented. The postmaster general endorses the plan, citing successful experiments and calling for social reform to aid farmers and reduce urban drift. Free mail would uplift farm life, raise land values, and be paid for by increased mail usage with proper management.
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Congress
United States
Dr Pierce’s Pellets Promote Health For Stomach Liver Bowels
Advertisement for Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets claiming headaches and disorders stem from digestive imbalance. Promotes pellets as mild renovator aiding stomach liver and bowels with no griping. Also offers free 1008 page medical adviser book for 21 stamps and cites De Witt's Little Early Risers as cure for biliousness and constipation.
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Pierce
R. V. Pierce
People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Damp Air Lighter Than Dry Air Seeks Weather Truth
A Philadelphia Times excerpt explains that at sea level 30 inches of barometric pressure and 82 F, dry air weighs about 5.5 grains per cubic foot while water vapor weighs 52 grains. Mixing vapors makes damp air lighter than dry air. It notes stormy weather lowers air density, smoke rises through lighter air, and the atmosphere weighs like a water flood about 83 feet high, with sea level pressure near 15 psi and the human body bearing about 80,000 pounds of atmospheric pressure unseen.
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Earth
Philadelphia Times
The Fullness of Country Life
In the country each morning reveals Springing or fading nature and new duties. Hard work, prudent care, and courage form the rural life, while animals and service foster lowly charities and discipline. The seed time and harvest laws bind labor to patient toil and submission to the seasons.
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Joh Boskin
Greeve Credits New Discovery for Recovery from Consumption
Mr R B Greeve of Bowie Virginia says coughs colds and consumption were cured by two bottles of Dr King's New Discovery after years of illness and failed remedies. He reports restoring his business activity and praises the remedy as grand for his community. Free trial bottles offered at Schellin's drug store. Skin relief claimed by DeWitt Wich Hazel Salve.
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R B. Greeve
Ni Bowie
Sies
Dr. King
Scellin
Rea
Southern Medica and Surgical Institute
Louisville
Why Flowers Are Fragrant And A Yankee Skipper’s Trick
A discussion of why flowers give fragrance notes insect pollination and cross fertilization with lupine example. Then a humorous tale of a Yankee skipper tricking a Russian expedition by piloting them to a cove with a small charge, as Harper's Round Table recounts.
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Nature
California
New York ‘Ledger
Bedford Whalers
Poles
Russia
South Seas
Pole
Rhode Island
Harper’s Round Table
Manly Training Vs College Authority In Moral Upbringing
A column argues that colleges cannot substitute for parenting and must avoid strict control without meaningful purpose. It urges guiding youth with real tasks and inspiration, not fear or punitive order, to form mature, responsible individuals. It cites David Starr Jordan on freedom and courage in scholarship.
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David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford, Jr., University
North American
Icehouses In England and America
In England the common icehouse method keeps most of the structure underground to use Earth's natural warmth for preservation. The writer notes Americans would avoid fully above ground icehouses, preferring a subterranean design as a safeguard against heat.
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Engined
England
America
Wax figures for show windows and their costs
A Boston Transcript piece explains wax figure making for store windows. It notes a life model approach, steps from wax cooling to makeup and wig placement, and how costs vary by part such as hands at about ten dollars and heads around twenty to forty five dollars.
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Washington Street
Boston Transcript
Evan B. Meredith
Idaliene Meredith
Minnehaha
South Dakota
E. J. Quigley
Davison
Register of Deeds
Mort- Bake
Maria L. Quigley
Office of the Register of Deeds
Davison County
A. D
Mitchell
Towan
S. D
Manta L
Quigley
E. J
The Raindrops on the Roof Poem Debacle
An amateur poet offers a new verse at a Strand Magazine gathering. An elderly guest retorts that rain drops on the roof, sparking a sharp exchange about the purpose of poetry and wit. The guest challenges a better poem explaining weather on departure. The evening ends without further verse.
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Strand Magazine
Legend of a massive landlocked salmon in Maine recounts
Clarence Pullen recalls secretly stocked landlocked salmon in a remote Maine lake. He describes fishing there, hiking to Mount Washington, and finding a gigantic 82 pound salmon in a drying brook near the summit. He invites verification with a personal tour.
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Clarence Pullen
Maine
Mount Washington
New Hampshire
Philadelphia Press
The Native Hawaiian Leisure and Cuisine
A Godey’s Magazine description portrays native Hawaiians as relaxed and content, living like royalty in paradise. It notes poi made from taro, fish, pork, and a mat-covered table with calabash platters, with roasted pig and fish served separately, and a tropical fruit-based dessert.
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Paradise
Adam
Tropics
Desperate Winter Villages in China Push Merchants to Aid
In northern China many villages throb with winter emigration as residents seek warmth southward begging. They form guilds and threaten riots in front of shops, coercing merchants to provide aid, a practice merchants intensely despise.
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China
Woman credits Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills impact
A Missouri Valley Iowa woman writes that Hood's Sarsaparilla revived her in a delicate pregnancy. she says her health improved, energy returned, blood seemed purer, and constipation eased after using the tonic and pills. She notes her baby later thrived and shares her testimonial from Box 419.
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Hood
E. F. Dal
Missouri Valley
Iowa
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Ceses Wa We Club
Minneapolis
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Argus Leader
Mayhew
Hipple
Chas. Anderson
Washington
Cuba
Hawaii
Rural Postal Delivery
DeWitt
L. O. Gale
L. O. Ga
Galicia
Austrian
Poland
Roxbury Gazette
City of All Mines
Heroe
Hymen
Chicago Post
Hitchell, S. P
Mitchell House
English Free
DR. Rea & CO
Grand Opera House
L. C. Gale
Elsie M. Baker
R. D. Marton
Oscar Ff. Ladd
Salt County of
Towit
Louis Beck
W. A. Fowler
Tedempton
W. A. Fower
Comptroller of the Currency
First National Bank
S.D
Nina 5. Dousmen
Prairie
O. L. Branson
Mitchell, South Dakota
Allie V. Orswell
Thomas W.D. Orswell
Fidelity Loan and Trust Sampans
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Sild Fidelity Loan and Trust Company
Metropolitan Trust Company
City of New York
Fidelity Securities Company
Sioux City
Minowrist & Robinson
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