Local Notes From Vernon And Surrounding Towns In December
A sweeping roundup of community happenings from Vernon, Mitchell, and nearby areas recaps visits, illnesses, weddings, and social events. Readers learn of family travel, revival meetings, school activities, fairs, and recent births plus farm moves and livestock sales. Local residents attend dances, plan Christmas events, and exchange updates on health and housing as winter settles in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reta Alea Wrsz
August Ven
Oversfeld
Jackson
Everyooey
Timm
Lasborn County
Bard
Weesing
J.B. Martin
Luta Lindsay
Sanborn County
Wm. Clark
Alex Lockhart
Wm. Hervert
Local notices and ads mix with cultural notes from Mitchell
The clippings mention visitors from Breckenridge and Parketon, a local neckwear seller L Indra, and a note about an eastern detective Hal Winters in Mitchell. Also details on a twenty fifth sale by Chas Ferguson, the South Dakota Retail Merchants association meeting, goods for sale by W H Odell, and a study on Negro physical traits plus mentions of Munich clerks and New Zealand old age pensions bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Winters
Mitchell
St. Louis
Missouri
Winters
Chas. Ferguson
Ferguson
South Dakota Retail Merchants’ Association
New Zealand
Modern Girl Tactics and Teas Makes a Stranger Night Offer
An observed social exchange shows a young woman manipulating a male suitor through a coordinated plan to meet a military son, highlighting the era’s flirtations and female social savvy. The piece, from the Washington Post, contrasts with a curious note on a violet sea snail and a technical look at microbes in milk. The snail, named lanthina, builds air filled rafts to ride storms, while milk microbes proliferate rapidly after milking, raising public health concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hosband
Capitol Hill
So-and-so
So-end-so
Washington Post
France
Philadelphia Press
Lucey Posse
M. de Freudenrich
Berne Laboratory
Chambers’ Journal
Queer Medicines in French Peasant Pharmacophia
Paris Correspondence notes French peasants rely on wine in prescriptions. Wine with honey and pepper sweetens remedies for children. A quart of red wine and melted tallow candle used for severe cold. Eggs wine and soot for scarlet fever or brain fever. Some graveshold practices, like burying a child with a toy or hair, appear pathetic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Limit to Trust Pocketbook Dispute Cited
A brief exchange notes a pledge of lasting trust yet a quarrel over who would carry the pocketbook. The Detroit Free Press records the light domestic interaction as a snapshot of personal tensions and assurances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Theat Black Exes at West Philadelphia Church
A Philadelphia Record piece recounts a boy and his sister at their first church visit. The boy notes the boy in front, a local figure, as the aisle procession begins, while the girl abides with quiet awe. Field and the Street Arabs tale is cited as a counterpoint about Eugene Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon
Miew Lou Hatch
Alexandria
Coon
Peter Hogstadt
Mason City
Iowa
C. W. Jones
C. W. Kellie
Philadelphia Record
Strangland
Seraph
Bill Griggs
Field
McClure’s
Eugene Field
Mrs. Field
Rib Removal Leads to Odd Hospital Echoes
A Lewiston patient underwent rib removal surgery and, after waking, spoke of a mysterious answer to a nurse claiming to be “the woman.” He later calmed and improved, recounting the joke as he recovered. The tale is cited from the Kennebec Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Lewiston
Kennebec Journal
Chicago the holy city in 1893 world congress
A Boston Transcript note recalls Mark Twain's line about India knowing the United States by George Washington and adds that they then learned of Chicago the holy city where the 1893 congress of religions met, reflecting on global awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Equator
India
United States
George Washington
Chicago
Boston Transcript
Swift's Specific Claims Cure for Scrofula
An lettered testimonial describes inherited scrofula and how Swift's Specific restored health. The writer cites their son Charlie, cured after taking multiple bottles, noting healed sores, clear skin, and restored vitality. The piece warns doctors fail to treat blood diseases effectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie
Swift
Mabry
View St
Macon
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Joe Boxer
Aza Dodd
Mitchell Tueeday
Dodd
Eli Spencer
We. Tovey
Jefs
Grand Lelss
Sletwzs
MotGregor
Maggie Sezwa
Ee Orman
Lizzie Kelly
Mitebe
Sevarday
D. Donovan
Exery
Witc
Ethan Ae
Gusta Schlimgen
Fergen
W.B. Totey
Moncey
West Pere
Madgen
Frank Wickey
A. M. Logen
C. C. Young
C. C. Swartout
Hager
Hall
Crandall
Michigan
Scot Forbes
Clay Young
J. &. Wilson
Weeks
Chapin
Mies Ancis Haynee
Wider
J. Y. Reynolde
Newburg
The
Salvation Army
Nisemel
Wight
Toe
Mise Gertie
Sieur Cisziere
Eseeclan
Berrie
Lamo
Lawrence
Olene
Raymond
Mitch
Laverze
Mises Hose Cox
Grace
Crandall Place
Weccencay
Baeger
Clae
Mise Simmone
Parketon
Delia Spooner
John Yarrow
Breckenridge, Minn
L. Indra
W. H. Odell
Weal
6Th and
Wisconsin Streets
Mitchell, S. D
Lee Dem
New York
Munich
Ruggles
Corbus
Chicago Tribune
S.s.st. Blood
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Arabia
C. Burnside
Litchell
A. B. Hager
South Dakota
This
Harker Bros
Cash Bargain Store
Frid
Legisla Amoun
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