Dairyman Highlights Cream Test Variations on Farm
A dairyman explains how cream test results vary with milk temperature, separator speed, and milking haste. He notes fat pounds sold matter more than per cent cream and urges consistent conditions for fair comparisons. Also reports Sheldon Mail editor RL Piper's wedding to Mildred Volkerts in Sac City with minimal ceremony and modest remarks from local figures.
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Mwe
Sheldon Mail
FL. Dodge
RL Piper
Mildred Volkerts
Sae City
the Mail
Sac City
Sheldon Band
Fire Department
Sheldon
A Common Story of Grog and Regrets from Fifteen Years Ago
The narrator recalls a bar scene with lemonade and cigars, old kegs, and a new barkeeper replacing the old, amid reminiscences of friends, drinkers, and hangmen from fifteen years past. Women outside weep as Holland gin flows and memories of cheer, misfortune, and pride linger.
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Tom
Halifax
Great Midland Town Lot Sale Near New Railway Terminus
The Western Town Lot Company promotes a public vendue for Midland town lots as the Rapid City North Midland line nears completion in 1907. Midland sits in Stanley County with river and creek access, ideal soil, abundant water, bridges, and planned county routes. The sale targets a regional boom with diverse businesses, including creameries, mills, hardware, grocers, and crafts, led by townsite agent J Russell and supported by special excursion rates from the North Western Line.
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Fort Pierre
Midland
Western Town
L Ot Company
Ts Pierre
Rapid City & North
Stanley County
South Dakota
Mitchell Creek
Mitchel Creek
Western Town Lot Company
J. ©. Russell
North-Western
The Man Who Used to Sell the Booze Remembrance
A sobering stanza recalls deaths from storms and drink across fifteen years. The speaker laments vanished patrons, drowned regrets, and a barroom chorus of doom while LT visits churchyard graves of those who drank and died, including a founder of the selling trade.
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James H. Tata
Tom
Minnesota Judge Dismisses Grand Jury Over No Indictment
A Minnesota district court in Watonwan county discharged an impaneled grand jury for failing to indict John P. Hascom. Judge criticized the panel while ordering a new venire. Hascom, accused of adultery after fleeing with Mrs Iverson, remains jailed in Blue Earth county.
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Minnesota
Madella Times-Messenger
District Court
Watonwan County
St. James
John P. Hascom
Huscom
Hascem
Ole Iverson
Iverson
Forsyth
Rochester
Blue Earth
Advice to Correspondents from Sutching Leader
County correspondents should report news of broad interest. Skip trivial neighbor notes and gossip. Focus on accidents marriages deaths births visits from abroad or distant visits. Cover crop conditions new buildings and notable anniversaries. If no news, do not write.
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Minn
Man Delivers Water by Stealth at Hemenway Home
Spirit Lake Beacon reports Leon Hemenway hired a drayman to fill a cistern. A new helper backed a wagon to the residence, opened a basement window, and poured water into the cellar. The drain worked fine and caused no major damage, though the thief fears being pursued.
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Spirit Lake
Leon Hemenway
Hemenway
Leon
Barbed Wire Accident Injures Titonia Youth
Geo Breen suffered a severe nose cut last Friday evening while running an errand for his father. He collided with a new barbed wire fence near the Young residence, built that day by Mr Schrader. Dr Wallace set and stitched the wound with five stitches.
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Geo. Breen
Breen
Wallace
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East Kossuth County Bank
Frank Winkel
State Street
J. E. Crane
Pope-Hartford
BUICK
DEERE
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Cadillac
JEWEL
Holzman
Algona Auto CO
Woodford, Wheeler, Lumber Co
Court House
Dakota
Agricultural
Titonia
Tone
Brothers, Movies
Iowa
Ful Ug
A. D. Clarke & CO
Poland
M. P. Dau
Burt, la
Farmers Savings Bank
Sexton, Iowa
G. M. Butts
Pres DL
Krantz
V-Prep
Edw
Johnson
Cashier
J. P. Larson Gee
Benschoter
B. E. Sanders
L. J. Dickingon
W. A. Vincent
J. G. Vincent
Vincent Bros
Stock & Vincent Meat Market
A.D. Clarke & CO
Hugh Norwood
Old Iron
The
Algona Rendering Works
Algona Milling, and Grain Co
Earcorn
Jasperson & Acmurray
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