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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
2
A short notice listing 24 items priced at $1.00 each, with a note about second class mail matter status at the Mitchell South Dakota post office and reference to a pact date of March 3, 1879.
The piece argues over Democratic and Republican influence, foreign intervention, and U.S. diplomacy, referencing Gen. Carranza and Ambassador Dumba. It criticizes local banking regulation in South Dakota and highlights Mitchell and Ethan Enterprise tensions over the Corn Palace funding and county printing, urging fair conduct by all sides.
The Sept 7 1915 regular session notes that the board ordered a $6.00 correction warrant for J A Dale, reviewed year end expenditures by fund, set levies for 1915, and approved several road and infrastructure actions including use of a county road grader, a petition on highway routing, and a $500 payment to Galion Iron Works for a road grader with a slate of bills approved.
An Ethan Enterprise letter to Mitchell Corn Palace Committee secretary accuses the palace of limiting publicity to paid ads. It notes past use of complimentary tickets, a cash-for-ads shift, and a boycott by the Ethan paper over publicity. The editor mentions the palace paying its stockholders.
Mrs Joseph Aselin of Minneapolis relates two years of illness with side pains and thinness, improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with restoring strength and invites others to write for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
Deadwood South Dakota reports two Germans using French aliases, P. Blaizot and Perret Allard, posing as French buyers for the French government. They tour the Back Hills paying premium prices to secure horses, claiming they will ship more than 500 head to Germany.
An Aberdeen woman walking home alone at night heard a man whispering and stepped from a vacant building to demand she raise her hands. Startled by the whistle, she screamed, and the would-be robber fled. The incident suggests a careless, roaming offender likely with a well-filled pocket.
Sigseton 8 D Ed Mark of Peeg er was bound over for trial in Roberts County state circuit court on a malicious mischief charge for allegedly cutting four tires on Peter Larson’s automobile. Prosecutors say Mark acted due to a personal grudge against Larson.
Fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed the central store of Samuel Walter in Olivet South Dakota. Only a small quantity of dry goods shoes and other goods was saved. Loss will reach several thousand dollars.
Adele Blenbau, a U S war nurse who went to Europe, fell in love with a British officer she saved and married him. She has returned to await the birth of a child and is writing a book on her war experiences.
Davison County South Dakota notes show bills approved for county poor care and various services, a loan approval from the School Fund, sale of an old elevator road, and a request to defray land-right of way filing costs. Jurisdictional dates and official attestations appear. The piece also covers Japan’s Mr Yamakami selecting eleven brides from twenty-nine applicants to address emigration morals.
Tokio reports S Yamakami a Seattle newspaper man who has returned with eleven girls set to marry Japanese emigrants. He cites Eugenics as the basis of selection and notes a shift from photo based matching to new criteria. In White, South Dakota, two young boys nearly poisoned by Paris green when playing at home. Russell, 3, saved Darrell, 2, after ingesting spoonsful until a physician intervened.
An advertising notice touts Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey as antiseptic and healing for throat and head mucous ailments. The marketer claims invasions of renewed vigor from the pine forests and urges readers to buy a bottle at local druggists.
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