Harvest News and Local Notices From Bethel and Victor
Harvest has begun with good wheat, social events well attended and proceeds over eight dollars. Edna Wallis and friends visited, Miss Morgan works for Mrs Rowley, and Marjorie Bailey is ill. Sunday school attended by Wallis children. barn dance at F L Rowley’s with scarce refreshments. Bethel July 30 and Victor July 31 reports note harvest in full, visitors from Paonel, and a birthday party for Amanda Lawerence. Institute classified with 150 attendees. Teachers Library Union organized with 32 readers. County finances sound. few districts have bonds outstanding. Correspondents urged to send crop news including acreage and yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel
Edna Wallis
Lloyd Wallis
F. L. Rowley
Belle Hillman
Iowa
Allen
Charley Carlson
C. J. Bliss
Mitchell
John Lawerence
Amanda Lawerence
Mr. Greive
Teachers’ Library Union
Riverside
Vernie Patterson
Della
Coy Lambert
Peter
Rudolph Jorgenson
Mable Jorgenson
Schultz
Mike Millard
W. L. Wallis
Riverside Socials and Harvest Notes From July
Riverside notes cover several social events with many neighbors attending ice cream socials, dances, and visits to Bethel, Mitchell, and surrounding farms. The town records illness, recovery, and weather impacts from a cyclone, including harvest progress and Ladies Aid postponement until harvest ends. A Sanborn county resident, Paul VanOvershelds, welcomes a new daughter.
Badger News: Farm Sale and Social Note
Badger residents report B C Weeks sold his farm and plans a southern visit before settling again. A Bayder street home of George Streets is mentioned with unclear occupant. A rain storm kept attendance low at the basketball girls ice cream social. Misses Forbes of Gann Valley are visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Badger
B. C
Weeks
Bayder
George
Forbes
Gann Valley
Oat Harvest Complete in Beulah Area
Beulah reports harvest finished with many shocks as farmers mow roadside fields. Hay delivered brings 5 per ton. Asa Tyler runs a dog training school and performs in a lighthearted scene as threshing engines travel the roads.
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Beulah
Asa Tyler
Asa
A Necessary Precaution Cures Cough Croup Soon
A brisk warning touts a one minute Cough Cure as a safe immediate remedy for colds coughs croup throat and lung troubles. It claims to allay inflammation clear the head soothe and strengthen the mucous membranes and suits children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Educational column notes county school progress
The county superintendent reports in an educational column on rising wages, targeted grading under a state course of study, and library growth with about 500 books added last year and again this year. Arbor Day observances, flag procurement, painted schools, and tree plantings are noted along with strong attendance and compulsory education efforts. Reading Circle work and institute rewards are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Davison
Advertised Letters At Mitch Ell Post Office 1902
List of uncalled letters for the week ending July 31 1902 in Mitch Ell post office includes Alsopp Baldwin Briggs Corbin Cody Davis Davids Dryden Enright Green Hoobler Halle Hammer King Neumyer Sherman Spane Sylva Vanivrchell Williams Woodward Readers are instructed to say advertised when calling. If unclaimed in two weeks they will be sent to the dead letter office. H L Bras P M
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Alsopp
W. M. Baldwin
E. C. Briggs
Walter Cody
Edward Davis
May Davids
R. Dryden
EB. J. Enright
Maggie Green
Mable Hoobler
W. A. Halle
Albert Hammer
Joseph King
Lottie McAvoy
J. J. Neumyer
Lon Sherman
Louise Spane
R. M. Sylva
A. Vanivrchell
Jennie Williams
Fred J. Woodward
Mosella
H. L. Bras
P. M
Dean’s Kidney Pills Promise Kidney Relief
A customer testimonial from Harvey Reed of Fargo North Dakota credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending a steady kidney backache after a single box purchase at Wilson's pharmacy. Reed urges others to use the product and notes social referrals. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents per box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents US Remember the name Dean's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Reed
Fargo
N. D
Riverside Dairy
Wilsor
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers Advertised as Liver Tonic
A wartime style testimonial touts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a non gripe purgative and liver tonic. The ad cites user W. Scott of Milton Pennsylvania endorsing their portable, vegetable formula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
W. Scott
Highland Ave
Milton
Odors Said to Signal Diseases in Medical Record
A medical text asserts specific odors indicate illnesses. New mown hay signals pysmia, while typhus shows an ammoniac smell and jaundice a musky scent. Measles allegedly smells like fresh feathering. cholera skin odors are emmoniacal. smallpox odor likened to fallow deer.
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Svarlatina
Magnetism of misery returns to disaster sites
The Philadelphia Ledger notes that after calamities many homeless and bereaved return to scenes of destruction driven by sentiment rather than profit. It cites events from London fire to Johnstown and Philadelphia to illustrate the pull of memory and renewed grief over comfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lisbon
Philadelphia
Chicago
Mississippi
Charleston
Johnstown
Philadelphia Ledger
Last shot claim by Captain Barton of Del Rien Tex
The account says Captain S H Barton of Del Rien Texas claims he fired the last shot of the Civil War. After peace was declared a May 13 1865 skirmish near Brazos Santiago on Palo Alto field saw Slaughter’s Confederate rear guard halt firing following dispatches from French watchers across the Rio Grande. A stray shot killed one of Barton's men as he fired in anger at the distant Union lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. H. Barton
del Rien Tex
Brazos Santiago
Tex
General Slaughter
Barrett
Palo Alto
Rio Grande
Barton
Will Make Affidavit Postmaster T R Randall Dunlap Iowa
Postmaster R H Randall of Dunlap Iowa declares indigestion troubles and long health issues were cured by Kodol. He testifies the product gave a new lease on life and strengthens the system. Kodol digests food aiding assimilation and restoring health. Prepared by B Co DeWitt Chicago. The 31 bottle contains 2% times the 50c size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Randall
Dunlap
B. CO. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
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S. S
SWIFT
Atlanta
Dren
McGovern
Victor
Capital
Perry
West Perry
Wm. Clark
Ladies Aid Society
Secausa
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