Dr. Nicholson Returns from Six Week Rest and Work Trip
Dakota Wesleyan University president Dr. Thomas Nicholson arrived home after a six week journey combining business and leisure. He visited Chicago to recruit faculty, toured Excelsior Springs and Yellowstone Park, attended a Black Hills Methodist conference, and discussed starting a branch academy funded by Hot Springs donors. He expects to reopen the university September 16 and to move quickly on faculty appointments.
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Thomas Nicholson
Dakota Wesleyan University
Chicago
Mitchell
Nicholson
Excelsior Springs
Yellowstone Park
Hot Springs
Black Hills
Hisey Draws Crowd With Gov ernment Ideals Talk
Andrew Townsend Hisey of Iowa spoke at the courthouse Thursday before about 150 men and boys on long‑running government ideas. The audience’s thunderous applause interrupted his sentences as he delivered a lively, humorous address.
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Hirsey
United States
Hisey
Iowa
Iowa City
Cook
Maisey
Andrew Townsend Hisey
Cherry Sisters
South Dakota
Milwaukee road yard work stalls as harvest hands refuse pay
Roadmaster Gregory starts on new east end tracks with a small crew of about 25 to 40 men. Superintendent Collins offers $2 per day for workers but every harvest hand declines, preferring northern state harvest pay of $2.50 and board. Collins vows to push freight house construction and hints at a forthcoming depot plan, with returns anticipated after Mitchell.
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Gregory
Milwaukee
Collins
Milwaukee Road
Mitchell
Funeral for Charles Wellman Held at Presbyterian Church
The funeral for Charles Wellman was held Sunday at the Presbyterian church with 15 Order of Railway Conductors members leading the escort from Noble & Son. He died performing duties on the Great Northern railroad at Virginia, Minnesota, after a train accident that crushed him. He leaves a wife and child, with many relatives and friends paying tribute. The service and burial were at Graceland cemetery, with pallbearers from the conductors, and a chorus provided music by the church choir.
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Charles Wellman
Presbyterian Church
Order of Railway Conductors
Noble & Son
Duluth
Minn
Virginia
Mitchell
T. J. Macmurray
Graceland Cemetery
John Hasley
H. H. Collard
J. L. Jones
John Feeley
W. H. Horton
John Vassar
Guy Wellman
Jesse Wellman
Inez Wellman
Clyde Wellman
Great Northern Railroad
Wellman
Washington
Pushing at Corn Palace Preparations Grow
Work crews and boys labor around the Corn Palace as they remove exterior corn decorations. Dr Dundas oversees new designs and samples indicate the corn will be ready soon as heat accelerates maturation.
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Corn Palace
Dundas
Campaign to curb land sharks in Chamberlain and Rapid City
A coordinated push targets land grafters across districts from Chamberlain to the Black Hills flooding land offices with contests. Rapid City reports hundreds of filings as perjury is alleged to cancel valid entries for graft profits. Local dealers and honest real estate firms pledge investigations to deter purveyors and protect homesteaders.
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Chamberlain
Black Hills
Rapid City Land Office
Rapid City
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Diehl & Brown
F. McGovern
New York
A.T. McGovern & Sons
Olney & McDaid
Clinton
Dean
Scallin Bros
Mitchell, S. D
East
Presbyterian
A. Roche
Lawrence
Kansas
Roche
John Philip Sousa
the Republican
Sousa
Willow Grove Park
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Gale
Main Street
Northwest
Ting
Fleec
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