Fire engine arrives as town plans new fire company
Mitchell Capital Ethan reports arrival of the fire engine hose and cart and outlines plans to organize a fire company. The notice also details a December 6 surprise for Miss Dora Gunn, local illness updates, church services, and community events including a chicken pie dinner for the Ladies Aid Society.
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Ethan
Ottman
Dora Gunn
Charlie Smith
Holy Trinity Church
New York
Brones
Canton
Ladies Aid Society
M. E. Church
Childrens
Sioux Halls
Loomis Brief News in December Loomis
Pete and Lawrence Gaetze loaded a car for railroad graders west of Murdo. Burt Steel received word his brother’s wife in Mitchell was not expected to live. R H Peckham moved his family to Loomis. John Cone on sick list. Mrs L Merriman and daughter shopped in Mitchell. John Navel bought sixteen white faced cattle for 901 dollars aged 18 months. He shipped the cattle to Sioux City. Mrs. W A Shurtleff and daughter featured in Loomis notices.
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Parker
Shaw Brothers
Ira Fraser
Fred Hanson
Bert Miner
Presho
W. V. Miner
F. S. Kidd
New Ulm
Minn
E. D. Watkins
Pana
Ill
HE. Sirles
L. T. Biger
Plainfield
Wis
Loomis
Pete
Lawrence Gaetze
Corp
Murdo
Burt Steel
Mitchell
R H. Peckham
John Cone
L. Merriman
Etta Smith
John Navel
EF. D. Watkins
Riverside Community Notes From Early December
Riverside reports include Mrs J F Knapp traveling to Mitchell by freight. visits among neighbors Della Wallis and Maud Sholes. James Watson calling on Loyd Wallis. Blenkiron delivering lumber. Otterman helping in the blacksmith shop amid horse shoeing rush. Epworth League plans Dec 18 at J K Knupp home. Wallis brothers hosted by S Kjelmyr. Sunday school preparing Christmas Eve program with tree. Ladies Aid to meet J F Knupp home Thursday afternoon.
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Riverside
J. F. Knapp
Mitchell
Della Wallis
Maud Sholes
Bethel
James Watson
Loyd Wallis
J. O. Blenkiron
Albert Otterman
John Tromsland
Clarence Wallis
Ralph Patterson
N. L. Wallis
Nourse
Nelwein
Iowa
Epworth League
J. K. Knupp
WW. L. Wallis
Sioux
Implement Dealers
S. Kjelmyr
Ladies Aid
J. F. Knupp
Public Auction at Beulah Mt Vernon area on Dec 20
Public auction at 10 o clock on Thursday December 20 at the Beulah township farm located seven miles west and one and a half miles north of Mitchell and five miles east and one and a half miles north of Mt. Vernon. Items include three horses 30 cattle many hogs hay grain and farm equipment. Cash on sums under 10 and bankable security with 10 percent interest on larger sums. two percent discount for cash over 10. Col J S Serverson and Son auctioneers M F Patton clerk E M Eaton proprietor.
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Mitchell
Mt. Vernon
Beulah Township
M. F. Patton
E. M. Eaton
Mason’s Pens and a Fortunate Invention in 1828
A biography notes Sir Josiah Mason walking in Bull Street Ingham in 1828 where he saw steel pens priced sixpence each. He forged a better version at home and sent it to London, securing a large order. By age thirty his earnings were 30 shillings a week and by sixty he had given away £400,000.
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Josiah Mason
Bull Street
Ingham
Osiah
London
Mason
County Commissioners Schedule Special Session for Dec 20 1906
The county commissioners will meet in special session on Thursday December 20 1906 at 10 oclock in the forenoon to settle unfinished business and address any other matters. Claimants against the county are asked to present claims by that date. Dated December 11 1906 O D Stearns County Auditor.
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O. D. Stearns
Colonial attitudes and social coercion in a Good Housekeeping snapshot
The excerpt portrays colonial women choosing between harsh options for dependents and highlights brutal views of Africans and convicts. It notes the town poor sold, convicts transported, and enslaved or beguiled individuals sent aboard ships, with occasional hopeful mentions of British or Dutch women seeking service but doomed to quick marriage.
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Chacarat Basan
England
Holland
Pamela and the Rise of the Novel and a Veranda Dinner Exchange
A brief look at how the 1740 novel Pamela kicked off a wave of prose romances reflecting contemporary manners. The piece notes Richardson as London’s printer and the era’s popularity of fiction, followed by a humorously stiff honeymoon dining exchange between a nervous gentleman and a waiter offering table d hote or a la carte.
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England
Samuel Richardson
London
Benedict
Death of Duke of Wellington mourned with bell toll
The bells of Trim near Dangan Castle toll loudly for the Duke of Wellington. The muffled peal marks a somber tribute while the tenor bell, famed for its beauty, breaks during the sympathy. The bell was cast in 1769 the year of the Duke's birth, a curious coincidence.
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Duke of Wellington
Trim
Dangan Castle
Ireland
Wellington
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Gillis
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