Mitchell Local News Highlights and Transfers
Local notes from Mitchell and vicinity cover hires and moves at L O Gale's drug store. A G Pringle buys Vermilyea harness shop. church fairs, Sunday school outings, and union gospel services. students, teachers, and residents with updates on marriages, weddings, and family relocations. Also news of fire, parade, farm sales, and local commerce including subscriptions offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Pringle
C. E Vermilyea
Leslie
W.E. Hitchcock
London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Co
Omaha
Spooner & Nordaker
Eva Morgans
Woonsocket
West Firat Street
Morgan
Thomas
University
Clark
la Crosse
Wis
Frank
Milwaukee Company
Athletic Park
Ladies Aid Society
The
Congregational Church
Scotland
R. J. Taylor
Fred
Mitchell
Mr. Taylor
Yankton
Collge
H. B. Anderson
Anderson
Tobin Township
G. H. Summers
L. Indra’s
Indra
James Leslie
McDonald
Baptist Sunday School
N. W
Main Street
J. W. Overholt
Mount Pleasant
Westmoreland Co
Union
Grand Opera House
Thomson
Salvation Army Hall
Magic at the pump in Matabeleland Mission
Reports recount how a British missionary in Hope Fountain near Bulawayo used a water pump to irrigate his garden while Matabele warriors misread it as magical. They tested the device for hours, hoping to gain a magical supply, unaware they had filled the mission tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Mail and Express
The Sharp Wit that Saved Martainville’s Life
A French royalist author Martainville escaped the guillotine after a tribunal misread his name. When accused of aristocracy he protested, You are deceiving us and trying to hide your rank. Leave me my name. The judges laughed and spared him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mortainville
Martainville
Time Allowance Tale and Papuan Craft Notes
A humor brief recalls a bicyclist at a country inn requesting three eggs boiled four minutes, but the waiter returns with one egg after fifteen minutes claiming the eggs are out. The Papuans of the Malay coast of New Guinea are described as primitive, unacquainted with metals, making weapons from stone bone and wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Bazar
New Guinea
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mitchell and Vicinity
Capital
Chicago
Nellie Drake
Hamilton
Missouri
Otis Duncan
Sanborn
Iowa
Inter Ocean
Chas. Fetch
Geo. B. Kelsey
B. W. Burleigh
Kunkel Bros
L. O. Gale
Burleigh
Lamme
Cuba
Santiago
C. W. Gillis
John F. Hogan
Holy Family Catholic Church
O’gorman
Madison
Milwaukee
Npuzzlemen
Hose Co. No. 2
Lillian Root
Root
Huron
Woonsocket Times
D. O. Root
Woonsocket Gallery
Mra. Root
Miss Rose Cloud
Champeny
Plankinton Standard
Kent Home
Greeneboro
N.C
Miss Cloud
Washington, D. C
Tinan
Kimball Graphic
D. W. Burright
Sac City
Frank Williams
Sioux City
Mies Jean Wentworth
W. H. Johnston
C. E. Hager
Des Moines
Sadore Hough
Jos. Schlimgen
Letcher
Roy Avery
Sioux Falls
Allen Ladd
Miltown
H. G. Nichols
A. M. Crossett
Tilsonburg
Canada
Hager
A. C. Stevens
F. EK
Lal Crosse
L.E. Whitcher
Highmore
Hood
S. H. Scallin
J. L. Keene
Ethan
Monroe
Warren Millham
Emmetsburg Monument Co
Parker
N. B. Reed
Bloomington, Ill
J. L. Hannett
T. J. Spangler
Chamberlain
T. L. Blank
Wessington Springs
S.S. Bately
Bately
A. C. Whitbeck
Kimball
S. G. Boyce
Mr. Whitbeck
Mrs. Boyce
G. B. Kelsey
Blendon Township
West First Street
I. M. Shannon
St. Paul
J. T. Morrow
J. J. Casa Co
Mr. Shannon
Sanborn County
Queen May Bell
M. Blakesly
Ann Thompson
C. F. Long
San Francisco
Cal
Our Soldier Boys
Manila
Speer
Cora Miner
Clara Wedebase
Supt
Quigley
Jon
Iain
Bill
Cornhill Magazine
Faro Banks
Broadway
New York Sun
Jeath
New York
Dr. Pierce
F. L. Moyer
Mitchell Livery
J. W. Broadbent
Commercial Savings Bank
Mitchell, South Dakota
J.T. Morrow
Geo H. Rew
H.R. Kibber
A.H. Pearson
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