Local notices and community notes from Sioux County
A jumble of brief items describes farm activity in South Dakota and Minnesota, local visits, ice cream promotions at Weir's restaurant, and social gatherings. It mentions Emmett Wintermantel and Elmer Elliott visiting in town, the Epworth League Assembly preparation, and the Ladies Aid meeting at the Methodist church. A humorous aside criticizes Bill Dealy over the county courthouse location. The piece ends with reflections on Sioux county scenery and the Indian word towa meaning beautiful land.
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Mise Bibelrad
Hartland
Minn
Hull
Rud Stensvad
Weir's
Emmett Wintermantel
Inwood
Elmer Elliott
Canton Epworth League Assembly
Ladies Aid
Methodist Church
Charles Hunt Weduce
Dacat Weir
Fred Steinberg
Bichie Beckman
Minnesota
Roy Lang
Eugene Evans
Brookings County
Court House
Bill Dealy
Jowe
Sioux County
Timothy
Towa
Fis
Clocks of Strassburg and Mechlin in War Time
Odd clock tales link European sieges and seismic shocks to events in Strassburg and Mechlin. A cathedral clock at Strassburg chimed oddly as German forces surrounded the city and capitulation followed. In Mechlin a French officer died inside the clock tower while tampering with its mechanism amid wartime unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechiin
Crarr
Europe
Strassburg
Uhrich
House of Lords
Rey
Britain
Wil Jiam FV
Edinburgh
Majores
Cape Wrath
Hyde
Eby Metropeila
Qeanne
Meche Hn
Veida
Mechlin
Ile
Burglary Night Tactics and Peter the Great City Plan
A fragment discusses how to act when a wife wakes a husband from a noise at night with practical steps and then shifts to a historical note on Peter the Great choosing Amsterdam as a model for Saint Petersburg. It includes a diarylike guide and a short colonial era reportage on Dutch city planning and a political tariff speech about reciprocity and trusts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Alasson
Cuba
Roosevelt
Congress
Chofera Infantum Cure Promoted in 19th Century Ad
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain's Colic Chofera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure for infant fever with rapid relief when given with castor oil as directed. Sold by J. H. Hotibab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
J. H. Hotibab
Coloradg California Travel Book By Chicago Milwaukee St Paul
A fifty six page traveler’s guide on Colorado and California published by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway with half tone illustrations and colored plates. It notes a new through train service from Chicago to Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah and California via the line and offers to mail the book for six cents postage. FP A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago. To be over polite is to be rude Japanese Proverb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chicago
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Livestock Auction Notices From Local Farms
Buryney Buroey a Percheron at LH shown Mondays at GB. Van de Berg hosts sales five miles south of Hull Tuesdays at FL. Aytuans east of Hull Wednesday afternoons at Aull livery barn and Wednesdays at EDB roosting place one mile west of Wall. Ganghout four miles west of Pecking Saturday afternoon at Sioux Center. Three day terms with two at 232 and three at SH. Mare owners liable for viewing fee due at once if mare is diapered. Boe Van de Herz Owners N Keele Manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buroey
van de Berg
Hull
Aull
Wall
Pecking
Sioux Center
Coli
Ogwner
Boe
van de Herz
N. Keele
Also Mentioned on This Page
G. W. Lensink
Prop
Logal Laconigle
Hoga
Strassburg Cathedral
Ant
Yvans
Amsterdam
St. Petersburg
Toland
Peter the Great
Moscow
Agunet Kweden
Neva
Ruashin Am Glethai
Aed
Chofera Infantum
A. Miller
General Passenger Agt
Burney
Alway
Daane & Handling
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