Christmas and New Year Notices From Huron Area
A compiled list shows residents visiting, traveling, or spending holidays in and around Huron. Names include Miss Pearl Griffing, Herbert Costain, Leonard Gaston, E. L. Appelby, Delane Oviatt, Mervin Waltz, Emm, Elmer Newton, H. Boots, Carl Anderson, Virgil Times, Gus Anderson, G. S. Plummer, Arthur White, M. J. Tisdale, J. B. Silver, B. H. Collins, Reinelt, Mabel Hoskins, Mary Fleming, Alfred Smith, Mouser, Kester, Trumbower, Corley, P. J. Kelley, Bert Tree, Alma Halvorson, M. D. Kimes, Col. Geddis, Newton & Maag, Sanford Lyon, John Wheeler, Ralph, Culver academy, John McMahon. The notes cover travel for holidays, family visits, and local sales and business travel.
Christmas in City Churches Review of Holiday Services
The report details Christmas Day activities in 1896 at local churches. Episco pal Church held morning services with holy communion and a festive choir, while evening children's exercises drew praise. Presbyterian Sunday School groups donated cash and goods to Bowery Mission, a Missouri school, and a children's home, totaling substantial gifts. Mrs Santa and a volunteer program distributed treats as students performed readings and songs emphasizing giving over self.
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Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Sunday School
Bowery Mission
New York
Missouri
Santa
Notable Holiday Travel and Local Business Notices
Notre Dame area residents travel for holidays as Neil Finch attends a party in Aberdeen hosted by Mise Herried. Will Hills visits from California where he works as district manager of a telephone company. Mr and Mrs J K Sechler plan to move to a ranch west of the Big Muddy, leaving Tifeaday. R H Coty promotes his fourth annual January Reduction sale in West Third Street. Will Fay files again on Uncle Sam land after a prior claim in Chamberlain district, with a new selection after complications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Hills
Will
California
J. K. Sechler
Tifeaday
Pierre
Ranges
Mr. Sechler
Big Muddy
R. H. Coty
West Third Street
Mr. Cory
Picture moulding and framing supplies offered
George H. Costain advertises 700 feet of the latest picture moulding designs and a full line of mats and framing supplies for first class picture framing.
We Have the Best Talking Machines and Records
We offer the most complete line of talking machines and records in the country. Come and hear them. Price is $21 Geo H Costain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
H. Costain
Special Homeseekers Excursion to Points in the South
Round trip excursion tickets offered at very low rates with favorable return limits. December 19, 1905. Tickets and information available from Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & North-Western
Ba Y
Middlebrook Jewelry Sells Watches and Clocks at Low Prices
Middlebrook advertises jewelry watches and clocks sold by order at prices lower than Sears Roebuck. The notice highlights discounted timepieces and suggests customers can obtain items with reduced costs.
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Middlebrook
Sears- Roebuck
Gamble Opposes Elliott in South Dakota DA Fight
A contest for U S district attorney in South Dakota centers on James V D Elliott seeking reelection. Senator Gamble along with Representative Kittredge and Representatives Martin Burke back A C Biernat ski as Elliott’s successor. The president intends not to renominate Elliott and will not announce his decision until after Congress holiday recess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
South Dakota
James VD. Elliott
Gamble
Kittredge
Martin
Burke
A. C. Biernatski
Elliott
Eliot
Kiernatski
Congress
Fatal Handcar Collision Near Canby Injures Three
Saturday evening G Schultz section foreman from Gary line A B Lentz farmer west of Canby Minn and Hans Larson handcar riders collided with the 11 18 passenger train Schultz killed instantly Lentz cut head and leg Larson injured head and chest but expected to recover head injuries and skull fractures reported from the incident near Canby Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Schultz
Gary
A. B. Lentz
Canby
Minn
Hans Larson
Schultz
Lentz
Larson
Robbers Discard Clothing After Lesterville Theft
Two unknown men raided Kaldd Bros in Lesterville taking revolvers gold watches two suits of clothes shoes neckties and other items. They then entered John Chiadek’s elevator cracked an empty safe and fled leaving their discarded garments behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lesterville
Kaldd Bros
John Chiadek
Two Suspects in Dixon Horse Theft Link to Prominent Locals
Deputy Woods of Dixon arrests Sam Crazy Bull and Will Jones for horse stealing. While en route to Fairfax, a masked mob seized the prisoners and forced a confession, allegedly involving prominent regional figures.
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Woods
Dixon
Sam Crazy Bull
Will Jones
Bonesteel
Bull Creek
Fairfax
Funds for New Capital Construction to Begin Soon
The capitol commission reports $50,000 on hand for the building and is selling lands privately as it nears enough funds to erect the walls. Bids on the wall construction are expected early in the spring to complete the year’s work.
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Capitol Commisssion
Death Attributed to Alcoholesque Drinking At Miller
Postmortem finds no foul play in the death of John Abbon at the Benjamin Wenzel residence near Miller. Wenzel and Abbon reportedly drank several gallons of alcohol, which drove Wenzel to assault his daughter. Abbon died from the effects of the drinking and Wenzel is jailed without bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Abbon
Benjamin Wenzel
Miller
Wenzel
Abbon
First Hog Carload From Lyman County Shipped From Oacoma
The farmer has displaced the cattleman as the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line extends from Chamberlain to the Black Hills. The first carload of hogs from Lyman county was shipped from Oacoma, the county seat, by T. B. Strong, a pioneer resident.
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Lyman County
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Chamberlain
Black Hills
Oacoma
T. B. Strong
County
Cement Plant Planned Near Rapid City Advances
A large company forms in Rapid City to build a 700 barrel cement plant near town. Recent experiments on local cement materials show the product can be unusually pure and of top quality. Construction work to start early in the spring.
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Rapid City
Gas from Hyde county artesian wells lights farm
Reports from an artesian well in Hyde county claim gas escapes with the water at a depth of 1000 feet enough to furnish light and heat for the farm. There is talk of sinking deep wells at Highmore for gas. Artesian wells at Miller furnish some gas and past talk of development existed but nothing was done.
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Hyde County
Highmore
Miller
Father Patrick Cassidy Pioneer Priest Dead at Yankton
Father Patrick Cassidy aged 73, pioneer Catholic priest, died in Yankton. Appointed to a charge in this state twenty four years ago by Bishop Marty, he served multiple posts including chaplain at Siaseton orphan asylum.
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Patrick Cassidy
Yankton
Father Cassidy
Marty
Siaseton Orphan Asylum
Notable French Army Officer and Berlin Divorce Suit Headlines
General Fellagessier of the French army is reportedly involved with singer Hattie Moore in Bedford Massachusetts. May Yohe sues for divorce in Berlin from her husband Mayor Putnam Bradlee, son of former New York Mayor William Strong. Thomas L. Reilly wins Meriden mayoral race over George M. Curtis by 252 votes. Curtis is a prominent capitalist.
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Fellagessier
Hattie Moore
Bedford
Mass
New York Stock Exchange
May Yohe
Francis Hope
Berlin
Putnam Bradlee
William Strong
New York
Thomas L. Reilly
George M. Curtis
Curtis
Deaths and notable events echo across the year end
The report notes the death of Henry Harland the author of The Cardinal's Snuff Box in Italy and other obituaries including Davis and Thomas Fuller brothers in Michigan. It lists Roosevelt's canal bill and a record year for imported jewels while mentioning rumors of U S offers to France for Tahiti. It also notes quarantine trends due to Kobe plague and various senior officials' deaths.
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Henry Harland
Cablegram
San Reno
Italy
Davis
Thomas Fuller Brothers
Bronson
Mich
Ing
Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal
United States
San Francisco
Tahiti
France
Island
Congress records and convention dates cited
The report notes Representative Brownlow of Tennessee introducing 347 bills in thirteen days. It also mentions the National Association of Cement Users moving its annual convention from Milwaukee to Columbus with opening Jan 10. A planned consolidation of subway and surface traction on Manhattan Island is discussed as likely due to Metropolitan Street Railway actions. August Belmont is named.
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Brownlow
Tennes
Lee
Sion
Congress
Milwaukee
Columbus
Manhattan Island
Metropolitan Street Railway
Belmont
Notable 1920s Notices and Events Across Several Cities
Tuesday, Dec. 26, Davie Real Estate vice president Frank Ji. Scott wounded in Colorado Springs holdup. Mrs. A. B. Dibble, founder of the National Christian Tomrance union, is Grass Valley. Matthew Patterson Wood, NY engineer and author, dies after long illness. Cable reports X plans to give a wedding gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt for her February wedding. Twin City Rapid Transit raises pay for about 1,000 motormen and conductors.
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Frank Ji. Scott
Davie Real Estate Company
Colorado Springs
Colo
A. B. Dibble
National
Christian Tomrance Union
Frances Illard
Grass Valley
Cal
Matthew Patterson Wood
New York
Alice Roosevelt
Feruary
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Santa Claus
High NYSE seat fetches record at auction
A new high price of 95000 dollars set a record for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Other obituaries note the deaths of Judge Murray Floyd Tuley a leading West jurist and prominent Chicago citizen Louis C Huck father of Mrs Marshall Field Jr and commander William Herschel Allen U S Navy at Philadelphia Navy Home Louis N Megargee noted writer and newspaper man dies of pneumonia at Narberth Pa Brigadier General John Camp Cold Spring NY also reported dead in war department notice
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New York Stock Exchange
Murray Floyd Tuley
Chicago
West
Louis C. Huck
Marshall, Field, Jr
Navy Department
William Herschel] Allen
U. Sg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Third Street
Huron, S. Oak
Childrens
Miss Pearl Griffing
Bryant
Herbert Costain
Parker
Leonard Gaston
Wessington
E. L. Appelby
Delane Oviatt
Broadland
Mervin Waltz
Emm
Brookings
Elmer Newton
Sioux City
H. Boots
Nts
Minnesota
Carl Anderson
Istmas
Egan
Bloomgren
Virgil Imes
Mrs. Bloomgren
Gus Anderson
The
Richards Co. Force
H. Plummer
Rock , I
Perry
Choral ‘Union
Arthur White
Aberdeen
M. J. Tisdale
Sioux Falls
Silver
Minneapolis
Davenport
Iowa
Mrs. Reinelt
Mabel Hoskins
Mrs H. J. Hoskins
Mary Fleming
Clear Lake
Wisconsin
Alfred Smith
Eg Mouser
State University of
Harry Lenhart
Winona
Miss Kester
Hitchcock
T. F. Kester
B. F. Trumbower & Co
Joe Sauer
Mrs. Frank James
Sauer
John Swanson
S. F. Corley
Avenue Grocer
P. J. Kelley
C. A. Kelley
Cavour
Bert Tree
Volga
Alma Halvorson
M. D. Kimes
Kimes
Ness
Newton & Maag
Sanford Lyon
Chicago University
John Wheeler
Morgan Park
Ralph
Culver Military Aademy
John McMahon
Christ
Notre Dame
Neil Finch
Mise Herried
Neil
Will Fay
Chamberlain District
Fay
George H. Costain
Homeseekers
South Dakota News
Dis
Trict
Dent
Hays
John Alexander Dowle
Jamaica
John Warner
Vespasian Warner
Pensions
Clinton
Far Eastern
Kobe
William J. Emmett
Emmett
America
Robert Emmett
New Rochelle
N. Y
Dun
John N. Irwin
Portugal
Idaho
Keokuk
I Keokuk
Hot Springs
Ark
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