No Baseball Club This Year In Mitchell
Promoters report no Mitchell baseball team due to failed South Dakota Iowa league and lack of willing clubs. H G Scharnweber, last year’s manager, will coach Artesian this summer. Artesian fans plan a fast team and will compete with Letcher Howard Plankinton Madison and others. Mitchell would back a strong club if finances and schedules allow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
H.G., Scharnweber
Artesian
Letcher
Howard
Plankinton
Madison
Scharnweber
Kubelik Buys Great Estate in Hungary
Violinist Jan Kubelik has purchased an immense estate at Zigmond-Haza in Hungary for 1 200 000 crowns about 240 000 dollars. The castle and vast forest lands represent a branch of the Hohenlohe family with Prince Chlodewig Hohenlohe previously owning it. Forest values have risen sharply in Austria Hungary since the war, making the purchase likely advantageous as forests were depleted by conflict and military use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zurich
Switzerland
Jan Kubelik
Hungary
Zigmond-Haza
Slowaker
Hohenlohe
Chlodewig Hohenlohe
Cratow
Triest
Kubelik
Bercher
Kollin
Bonelle
French Army Helmet Sparks Armor Expansion Debate
Surgeons report the new French army helmet success is prompting talk of reintroducing chest and abdomen armor. Dr. Roussy told the medical academy that mild scalp wounds among wounded men doubled from August to January after helmet use began.
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Paris
France
Roussy
Medical Academy
Army method allegedly lowers head wound death rate
A recent report notes a large rise in the army’s use of a certain device. The claim is that this increase reduces the share of deaths from bullets and shell fragments to the head in proportion to usage.
Mrs Craton Dies After Long Illness In Mitchell
Mrs Harriet Melissa Craton, mother of J H Craton, died last evening near Mitchell after months of illness from heart failure. She was born in Brownsville New York and lived in Wisconsin Iowa and Dunn County. Funeral was at Noble Undertaking parlors with Dr J M Hoagland officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Melissa Craton
J. H. Craton
Mitchell
Riverside
Noble Undertaking
Craton
Omaha Road
Downing
Wis
J. 5. Hoagland
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. D. Westbrook
Buchanan County
Iowa
Wisconsin
Dunn County
City council names election judges and changes polling hours
City council named judges for the April 18 election and changed polling hours to 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. The list covers wards one through four with named officials. The meeting also established a new sanitary sewer district No. 5 north of the Omaha tracks from East First to East Eighth Avenue.
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David Pearson
K. S. Christensen
S. B. Spink
T. Rush
William Patterson
Wilson
W. A. Branch
Joe Betts
Martin Boyce
City considers sewer and street work and armory lease
Resolutions call for a sanitary sewer from the AP branch terminus across the Omaha right of way to Rowley and West Eleventh, plus a lateral tie to Sanborn. They plan grading East Fourth from Gamble to East er street and graveling East Sixth from Capitol to Foster and Langdon to Tavison. Meetings will hear bids. 400 feet wax hose for the fire dept authorized at $1 per foot. two year city hall attic armory lease and auditorium practice space at $20 monthly. bids to be invited for sidewalks not yet built.
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Omaha
Rowley Street
West Eleventh Avenue
Sanborn Street
East Fourth Avenue
Gamble
Easter Street
Eest Sixth Avenue
Capitol
Foster Streets
Langdon
Tavisons Streets
Learings
Fire Department
W. S. Nott Company
National Guard
Scotland Yard Seizes Letters in Von Der Goltz Case
British officials announced Scotland Yard has seized correspondence belonging to Horst von Der Goltz, the alleged German spy. The letters reportedly detail plans to blow up the Welland canal and an invasion of Canada from the United States, and include names of Americans connected to the spy's activities.
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Washington, D. C
Horst von der Goltz
Welland Canal
Scotland Yard
Foreign Office
Department of Justice
Canada
United States
Waste paper worth money grows as prices climb
Thrifty households and clubs store paper scraps and magazines in hopes of cashing in later. Prices for waste paper have jumped sharply last month from 50 to 300 percent, with better grades fetching up to 25 dollars per ton, while the industry cites recent export bans as impacting supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Magland
American Paper Manufactur
Campaign Urges Saving Old Paper and Rags
Government departments join a nation wide drive to save old paper rags and flax. Bulletins urge custodians to post notices about 15001 tons of daily paper use that could be recycled. Railways and corporations operate waste paper collections with profits for carriers and manufacturers push waste paper programs. Agriculture estimates farmers burn or waste 1 400 000 tons of flax annually costing about 5 000 000 dollars.
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Ers
Commerce
Treasury, Post Office
Agriculture
Teading
Department of Agriculture
Rulings on the Coming Primary in South Dakota
The attorney general clarifies primary law for small precincts allowing two election judges without clerks for precincts under twenty five votes and explains multi county district petition filing plus party affiliation changes until registration closes.
Railroad Revenue Jumps Over Fifty Percent in February
Washington D C The interstate commerce commission reports preliminary figures showing major railroads net revenues rose from 25 million dollars in February 1915 to 38 million in February 1916 a gain of more than 50 percent indicating continued railroad prosperity nationwide
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Young Girl Severely Burned In Kerosene Fire Accident
Miss Gertrude H Ellingson, 14, daughter of Mrs Ela Ellingson, was badly burned about the face neck and arms while attempting to start a fire with kerosene. The kerosene exploded setting clothing alight and neighbors including Mrs S A Miskinnis aided before a physician arrived. The condition was reported serious but no hospital admission planned and community support urged for the widowed mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude H Ellingson
Ela Ellingson
Sixth Avenue
S. A. Miskinnnis
Demand for South Dakota home products urged at luncheon
W H T Foster of John Morrell Sioux Falls urged state residents to demand local products at no higher price or lower quality, noting South Dakota’s breadbasket status. He highlighted Sioux Falls commercial club and home products committee efforts and cited hunting of hog supply to Sioux City as example of outward leakage. He traced Morrell plant history briefly.
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W. H. T. Woster
Ohn Morrell Packing Plant
Sioux
Alls
Busi Pss
Widmann Hotel
Foster
South Dakota
Northwest
Sioux Falls
Commercial Club
States of the Union
Sioux City
Morrell
For Sale Items From Second Hand Billiard Table To Water Company
For sale second hand baby grand pocket billiard table Scharn weber Bros. For sale early Ohio seed potatoes O E Cassem For sale spring water James Jay 601 East Second or phone 2646. For sale Distilled and Aerated Water Co complete equipment horse wagon auto truck good paying business cheap if taken at once. Reason for selling going back to the farm T Hinders Mitchell D 821 BE 7th Ave HAY for sale in stock four miles southwest Mitchell H J West Eggs from prize winning stock 520 E 2nd Ave Ad CISTERNS cleaned and repaired Patch plastering of all kinds phone 3530 WANTED 5 or 6 room modern house or apartment have no children Call 2090.
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T. Hinders
Mitchell
7Th Ave
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Mrs. Craton
Jay H. Craton
von der Goultz
Ella Ellaingson
Daily Republican
Mitchell Weekly Capital
Remale
Geo. Agnes
Hoon’s
Spot Cash Store
N. Sanborn
Lane, S. D
Jennie Brown
L. Del’y., Mitchell, S. D
Henry Roscamp
West
Nat'l. Bank Bldg
Mitchell Cafe
General Ork
Gray
Gray & Co
Western Sales Co
Wahoo, Neb
J. R. Black
Toulon
Illinois
S. Wis
Metcalf
S. H. Scallin
3Rd Ave
Woelfel
Western National Bank
Inquire Pass Land Company
Republican
Ohio
O. E. Cassem
James Jay
East Second
Minn
Phone
S. Webber
J. H. Jacobson
Mina Bintliff
Wilson Hat Shop
Sali
Gaso-Tonic
Brunswick Balke-Collender Co
10Th St
Neb
H. J. West
Rhode Island
2Nd Ave
Tory Reierson
R. I
Alfred Nelson
Schaller, Ia
W. T. Emerson
Sc. Edmunds
Beulah Heights
Jos. Kotrba
W. J. Fraser
Foss Land CO
O. J. Preston
Mitchell, S. D
Lewis Shuster
Duluth
Arnold
Rock Island
Railway
Wolvin Bldg
Farm and Real Estate Journal
Traer
East 3Rd Ave
Hanson Go
M. J. Bloom
C. H. Stillwell
Alexandria
F. L. Osgood
I. F. Ross
Bobb’s Drug Store
Rapid City
Boxelder
Pal-I
Ace City Land Co
Siegfried
Denver
Ill
John M. Fleming
S. D
Tri-City
Barber College
Fourth St
Cole’s
Bert Snow
J. Toft
West 3Rd
N. Main
C. D
First National Bank
Sherwin’s ‘‘Surestand Alfalfa
Klean Korn
I. BE. Sherwin
Mer
Brookings, S. D
Faulkton
David Pleason
St. Paul, Minn
Faulk County
St. Paul
W.H. Fritz
Optometrist
Oftician
A. B. Hager Real Estate
Karm & City All Farms of Insurance
Mitchell Trust
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