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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
14
Beginning Monday October 12 the H D Butterfield store announces a back section remodel and offers heavy discounts to clear stock. Ingrain carpets 55c yard, Unions 35c, Granites 25c, Velvets 25c, Wilton Rugs 32, Body Brussels 20, Smyrna 18, linoleum cut 15 to 20 percent, Japand and China mattings 20 percent off plus special prices on feathers and pillows.
Local retailer clears large cloak stock amid crowded store space with season in full swing. Prices cut to remarkable levels with coats advertised at 25.00, 20.00, and 16.00 to 15.00 in a limited time sale.
Advertisement copy urging readers to attend a sale by H. D. Butterfield at the season’s start, promising big savings on readily needed goods.
The Mitchell club elected new officers at its annual meeting held Monday in club rooms over the post office. U J Hitchecock is president and William M dlerbert vice president Geo R Douthit secretary Robert Turns treasurer. The club rooms are modern and attract visitors during corn palace week. The treasurer reports strong finances with 500 in sinking fund and 500 cash on hand. The club grows in membership and aims to be a key business circle asset.
Perainav Praeger recounts a morning visit to Richard Wagner at his Switzerland home. The sixty year old composer suddenly mounted the ottoman and stood on his head in front of an astonished wife who rushed in. He recovered quickly, claiming sanity and noting he could outdo Ferdinand.
Dr. Thomas Nicholson president of Dakota University Dr. W S Graham Presiding Elder C F E Hager and wife and Rev Dr Youngman and wife depart to Aberdeen for the Dakota Conference opening Wednesday They will discuss college plans the memoria hall and Presiding Elder Hager's Mitchell district report Rev Youngman baptised eight and added 28 members the church grew about 40 in the year with benevolences totaling over 1400 Bishop Waldron to preside over the conference
An English weekly highlights the Pigott forgery case with a forged letter miswriting the word hesitancy as hesitetengy. An editor suggested the now famous line The Man Who Hesitates Is Lost, which was quickly set in type.
A Scots coachman helps a barefoot lad bound for Liverpool, twenty years later a sea captain repays the kindness with a yearly stipend, invoking cast thy bread upon the waters. A Wall Street tale shares a Philadelphia magnate challenging a hopeful in steps to reform habits before business aid.
A collage of verses on sunburnt belles and coastal flirtations contrasts with short humor snippets about cloves as a cure for seasickness and digestion, plus a light domestic joke about an engagement. The piece blends light verse with punchy quips and old fashioned column humor.
A historical overview of enfleurage for extracting essences from jasmine tuberose violet and cassia notes its laboriousness and compares it with early attempts using light petroleum. It cites Dr Albert Jesse showing enfleurage yields far more oil than direct extraction and highlights the fragrance remaining in spent blossoms.
The notice lists two good residences on East 1st Street and West 2nd Street, another on the South Side, and a fourth on West 4th Street, one block from Main Street, detailing multiple properties in a single urban area.
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