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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1887
Page
5
The notice advertises Weil Bros as offering cheap goods across dry goods, harness, boots and shoes with broad bargains. Local activity highlights include church overhauls, harvest preparations, upcoming fairs, and promotions for “Our Family Physician” premium books with subscription incentives.
Mitchell base ball club seeks a week long tourney to boost the fair. A purse of 125 dollars is offered by the board with Parker Alexandria Kimball and Plankinton invited. Dakota champions Watertown and Woonsocket are also invited with challenges for 200 to 500 dollars.
A reporter visits the fair grounds to note progress as workmen finish stalls, water mains, and exhibitor buildings. The site features 300 feet of shafting for machinery, horse and cattle stalls, sheep and hog pens, a circular cattle exhibit, a 48 by 100 foot fowl building, county exhibits, and a Greek cross floral hall with vast displays. Notable entrants include Theos. David’s Prairie Hall stock herd and Laelle ranch with sixty head.
Friesland Live Stock Co of Aberdeen brings seventy five Holsteins and Jerseys from Drake herd Doland plus twenty three head, Jamestown herd of I C Wade with twenty head, and other notable entries. Governor Church and staff arrive Wednesday to speak Thursday. preparations promise a record Dakota event showcasing livestock, displays, and hospitality.
Davison county and surrounding regions promote a Mitchell territorial fair with premium offers of 350 dollars for best county exhibit. Local clubs, bicycle groups, and civic figures urge strong displays to boost business and tourism as Mitchell prepares for a record crowd and extensive events.
Secretary Bushnell learned Monday that the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railway will carry all tail exhibits free of freight charges. With free freight over all lines in South Dakota and halted passenger rates, no locality has excuse to skip representation at the fair through exhibitors and crowds.
A. M. Bowdle bid $8650.64 to secure L. O. Gale's stock at the auction under mortgages held by A. M. Bowdle Fuller and Fuller Co and Lapp and Fleischman. Bowdle will run the former Gale store as druggist jeweler and bookseller, reopening immediately to serve Mitchell residents ahead of the coming fair.
The Normal class at the university is filling rapidly as twenty five students is the state limit under free tuition. Residents near Mitchell urged to apply soon before distant students fill the class. Dormitory space is nearly exhausted with most rooms taken by women students and remaining rooms slated for completion. Prof Wakefield forecasts strong attendance in the commercial department.
It is presented as a palatable remedy for consumption scrofula bronchitis and debility in children. Physicians worldwide report that young patients take it willingly and it is said to be the most valuable treatment for wasting diseases and chronic coughs and colds.
A 19th century advertisement urges readers to try Boschee's German Syrup for throat and lung ailments including consumption coughs and asthma. It claims immediate relief after three doses and notes 80 000 dozen bottles sold last year with no reported failures. Sample bottles are 10 cents, regular size 75 cents, sold by druggists across the United States and Canada.
The Baptist community prepares two grand concerts next week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Many of Mitchells popular singers pianists organists and readers have already agreed to perform. Additional artists newly arrived will join to enhance the programs and showcase local musical and literary talent.
Do not be deceived by misrepresentation. Ask your druggist for Allcock's porous plasters and reject substitutes. Allcock's is a vegetable preparation with a unique formula kept by manufacturers. Their curative qualities come from medical and chemical skill and over 1,000,000 people have been cured.
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as the prescription of a leading nurse and physician in the United States used for forty years by millions of mothers. It claims relief from teething pains, cures dysentery and diarrhea, griping, wind and cold, and promises rest for the mother. Price is 25 cents per bottle.
A friendly gathering occurred at Mr and Mrs R P Hall on Main Street to celebrate their twenty fourth wedding anniversary with neighbors and friends in attendance. The event notes a pleasant reunion marking the milestone.
Mr and Mrs Hall recently moved from Fulton New York to Mitchell and have quickly made many friends. Q W Leverin Co of Chicago seeks a county salesman to take consumer orders at wholesale prices by phone or letter, no peddling or delivering, for groceries.
The Mrrenenh PacKini Co advertises paying $3.90 to $4.25 for hogs. Farmers urged to bring in their hogs immediately to meet prompt cash offers and market demand.
All parties holding tornado policies in the Continental Insurance Co numbered 5017 5015 5019 5020 5021 5022 50238 5024 and 5025 and fire policy 285 issued by agent Jesse Nale must bring them to the office of present agent A. B. Mager for examination as there was no record kept by Mr Hale.
The writer asks all who owe money to Mitchell Dental Parlors to settle their accounts as a special favor before the author departs for Chicago for medical treatment. He notes the interstate law blocks passes for distinguished persons and asks anyone with a bill to present it promptly to avoid delays.
Advert says Electric Bitters are pure, guaranteed to cure liver and kidney diseases and skin ailments, drive malaria, and aid headaches, constipation, and indigestion. Sells for 50 cents or one dollar at L. O. Gale's Drug Store with full satisfaction or money back.
A vintage advertisement extols nature and health, urging readers to take Green's August Flower to cure dyspepsia and liver complaints. It claims 75 percent of diseases stem from these issues and promises relief after three doses, offering a sample bottle for 10 cents.
Mitchell city council orders a sidewalk along the west side of Duit Street between Second and Fifth Streets to be funded and built by adjacent property owners within thirty days after publication. The notice, dated September 12, 1887, includes construction specs and guardrails, signed by Mayor VT. Mentzer and Clerk J. P. Kimball. A separate caution promotes Pond’s Extract authenticity and warns against counterfeit druggists.
On my farm one mile north of Main street Mitchell Dak all household goods all farm machinery and tools and wagons carts buggies etc on Wednesday Oct 5 1887 J J Roor.
L. O. Gale sells Shilohs Cure for croup and bronchitis and Shilohs Vitalizer for dyspepsia with guarantee. A nasal injector comes free with Shilohs Catarrh Remedy at 50 cents. Davison Bros. & Seaman offer city property loans with special long time rates on brick or stone blocks.
Property four miles northwest of Mitchell offers ninety three acres with a good house well and stable eight thousand thrifty growing trees and price of two thousand two hundred dollars payment terms ten years or to suit purchaser GEO A ROGERS
Box Elder seed offered at twenty five cents per pound with good weight and seed quality. Shipped to any address with special rates for large orders. Order soon from Marcus Nursery in Marcus Iowa.
Col Adams and Co I prepare for Governor's Day at the fair with Gov Church and staff expected. The Second Regiment band will attend, transportation at one cent a mile, and invitations go to Sioux Falls Watertown Elk Point and other companies.
James S. Foster returned from the east and expects his Wisconsin state fair visit and exhibit to draw at least 100 people to the territorial fair. The Dakota products display impressed Wisconsin residents, highlighting a gap in their own fair. An excursion should arrive later this week with additional parties planned next week.
Rink Opera House hosts Prof. Compstock of New York on Saturday evening September 24 offering beautiful views of American and European scenery with free seats and admission. This new advance advertising idea comes from the Ransom Dramatic Co.
An advertisement extols Allcock's porous plasters as the best safest and most effective remedy for spinal complaints incipient consumption diarrhoea pleurisy asthma bronchitis epilepsy lumbago debility rheumatism gout sciatica loss of voice hysteria nervousness indigestion and palpitation.
The best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by L O Gale.
An old advertising line recalls Castoria as a beloved product across generations from infancy through motherhood. The famous cadence links Castoria to care for babies children and their families in a nostalgic family-health context.
George B. Orswell announces an auction for Saturday October 1 1887 at 2 pm featuring lot 1 block 1 two acres with house cistern cellar windmill and grinder plus lot 5 block 1 containing about 244 acres all in Bracy's addition. The sale may be for all together or by separate lots and includes household goods. Terms revealed on sale day. cash for sums 5 and under or approved notes for larger amounts. Private sale before listing house and mill.
Mitchell Dak September 10 1887 Land Office notices Sanford Washburn settler files for final proof on his claim ne 9 103 59 hd 1833 at Mitchell Oct 27 1887 before register and esit witnesses George Stolp Thorson Jorgenson John Rublo Frederick Brenneis all of Mitchell Oak City.
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