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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1898
Page
5
The Mitchell Capital offers subscription options from six months to a year with varying prepaid rates. It lists office procedures for address changes and notes low advertising rates, with business cards and local notices priced per line. Obituaries and respectful notices are charged per line, and the paper identifies itself as the official county paper.
A historical slate lists GOP candidates for statewide and county offices led by BR J Gamble and Chas Burke for Congress and Kirg Phillips for Governor. The roster covers secretary of state treasurer auditor superintendent school lands attorney general railroad commissioner and district and county posts with names from Mitchell, Beulah, and surrounding towns.
The article argues populist managers overcharged in 1893 and 1894, listing expenditures and mill levies. It contrasts populist boards with republican boards, claiming Republicans achieved the lowest tax levy in 1898 and should be trusted to run Davison county.
In a heated review of local politics, The Gazette attacks republican fiscal records while praising General Wheeler and critiquing critics. It notes the 23-10 mill tax levy by a Republican board, questions Governor Lee’s railroad passes, and cites Kidd's blunt stance on the year’s issues. It also reports on South Dakota volunteers in Manila and tensions between demo and fusion parties over ballot access and Democratic ticket placement in Davison county.
We extend sincere thanks to friends for sympathy and help during the sickness and death of our husband and father, Isaac Vermilyea. C. E. Vermilyea, Mrs C E Vermilyea, Mrs Mo Colvin, Jno Colvin join in the gratitude.
A man meets a woman at a London station who mistakenly greets him as her father. She realizes the error, and he refuses to release her until officers arrive. Police find the man’s diamond pin in the woman's possession. A second item notes Brazil's coffee output at about 360,900 tons annually.
A Popular Science Monthly writer urges youth to consider the body as a machine that produces poison during activity and requires rest to avoid fatigue. Endurance grows when cells expel waste and muscles gain time to harmonize, a concept trainers and jockeys apply through warming up before exertion.
A town artist known for pipe eyeglasses and blond hair attended a garden party to sketch high life. While social duties were brief he drew epigrams and laughs, then was amused by a prank as two girls and a man teased his hair with a horse nibbling on the back locks. The incident ended with apologies and a quip about hair. In related notes, extraordinary mothers include Lady Child of Shropshire who became a grandmother at 27 and Mrs Honeywood and Lady Temple with large lineages.
A crowded Columbus Avenue trolley prompts a scene of card game manners and a rough laborer offering a seat. A notary brags of collecting anonymous autographs and a Homer manuscript, only to be teased about owning Columbus’s telegram announcing the new world discovery.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recalls Miss Gayly forgetting an elegant Paris fan, prompting a lighthearted exchange about enjoying the opera. The anecdote highlights social manners and a fashionable accessory.
Advertisement claims 15 to 20 drops of Scott Emulsion in a baby or child’s bottle several times daily boosts nourishment when other food fails. It asserts benefits for delicate children in all seasons and urges consulting a doctor.
Mitchell offers fast cleaning and dyeing services at reasonable rates on West Second Street.
Names certified for congressional and state offices by party lines. Freeman Knowles John E Kelley Robert J Gamble Charles H Burke John EK Kelley A Jamison M. D Alexander Andrew E Lee Kirk G Phillips S. D Lewis F C Robinson John T Kean F C Robinson J Sparling William Roddell George Sparling G A Grant Hugh Smith Seanenen D Reeves L F Kintz Florence Aguire John Scollard David Eastman Gust A Johnson For Railroad Commissioner Third District W H Tompkins William G Smith J H Tompkins For State Senator Twelfth District John K Johnson Geo G Johnston M E Spooner J Sykes Wilson For Representative Thirteenth District W J Craig Harry L Bras Fred Gelson C M Peck For County Auditor Wm R Saul B S Anderson Frank McGovern C EK Boulton For County Treasurer Alfred Carlson Geo B Kelsey S H Rowley Eugene Foley M L Bobb H C Greene Q A Harper A R Groenke W B Tobey For State's Attorney F H Winsor Powers Winsor J B Sherman For Sheriff John B Davis Henry Swindler B Davis C A Miller Fred Grieve For Superintendent of Schools QO E Browne Mrs Edith Karl Carlotta Moyer For County Judge B S Johnston Winslow Abbeys E S Johnston Winslow Abbey For County Surveyor I Greene Geo Murner
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