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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
6
The Mason City Rug Co offers to transform Ingrain Brussels and Moquette carpets and fine Chenille curtains into new rugs with satisfaction guaranteed. They also buy old carpets, with Fish Bros. and Garton acting as Mitchell area agents for inquiries.
Mrs Clara Ellen Woods Pollard, born May 14 1858 in Reeds Point Illinois, died Aug 6 after years of paralysis. She married A A Pollard Jan 15 1880 and lived in Winterset Iowa and Mitchell Dakota Territory before settling in Mitchell. Her husband cared for her through a long invalid spell and the community extend sympathy.
An advertisement touts W H Brown of Leesville Indiana cured by King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming instant relief and recovery. It cites trial bottles free at S H Scallin’s drug store and guarantees bottles priced 50 and 1.00.
The list shows names of letters remaining uncalled for at Mitchell post office at week ending September 3 1902 including Holley John Jackman Mrs Nicholas Johnston John LaRue R Lynch Katherine Miller Frank Mohey Charley Patton Robt 8 Peashak Leo Peterson Peter Smith M VanDergrip Miss Anna Ward J I Wilcox Mrs Emeline Wilson R Advertised Sept 3 1902. Call for them by saying advertised. if not claimed in two weeks they are sent to the dead letter office.
Rev. J Budlong of Ashaway Rhode Island declares Electric Bitters cured his long standing jaundice and liver troubles. The tonic is praised for liver kidney and stomach benefits and offered at 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed by S H Seallin.
A collection of brief, humorous exchanges and quips across papers. Includes banter about safety pins, sleepless new fathers, and sparring philosophic lines reflecting light public wit and social banter from Philadelphia and Chicago newspapers.
Advertises a free “Elixir of Life” from Dr James W Kidd of Fort Wayne Indiana claimed to cure all diseases. The letter asks recipients to send name and address to receive the remedy by return mail, asserting cures from rheumatism to tuberculosis and paralysis.
The city school year starts next Monday and all who can should begin. The superintendent invites new entrants to meet him Saturday at 9 AM, and teachers seek music and physical education instruction at 2 PM daily this week. Students from other districts must show orders, tuition must be prepaid, and teachers will hold examinations Saturday morning for those who didn't pass last spring. The first general teacher meeting is Saturday at 2 PM.
In Paraguay a communist Cosmo colony publishes the Cosmo Monthly. News is read aloud from a reader twice weekly using items from Asuncion papers. Also advertised: Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets praised by T W Robinson, price 25 cents, sold by L C Gale.
The London Telegraph recalls Charles Reade at his desk, placidly smiling while inscribing thoughts on foolscap in large schoolboy text. A friend feared he was frightening a criticaster with language that made hair stand on end.
An assorted clipping notes L O Gale drug store ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets at 25 cents. It adds Bangkok palace sights and sacred white elephants kept behind gilded posts, plus a digression on mushrooms and nautical malapropisms from Straits Budget and London Lancet.
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