Mitchell City Council Awards Boiler Repair Contract
The Mitchell city council adjourned after opening bids for repairing the old water works boiler. Summers won with $60, starting within a week, promising power reliability. An opera house licensing ordinance was read second time. circuses and concerts licensed at $10 yearly, other shows $5 per night.
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Fullerton
Mesars
Levinger
Simpson
Indra
Nielsen
Pollard
Smith
Alfred Lyons
Geo. Austin
J. A. Brown
Geo. H. Summers
Mitchell Iron Works
Summers
Verbal Supreme Court Decision On Mandamus Election Certs
The ruling in Richard J. Wood versus the governor and state canvassing board allows the county canvass to continue. The board may extend to obtain returns from counties not yet received, aiming to certify those with the highest total votes. The formal opinion is expected next Wednesday morning.
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Supreme Court
Secretary of State
McKinley
Pierre
Carson
Richard J. Wodd
State
Returns Confirm Bryan Victory and Populist Sweep
Complete certified returns from Lawrence and Butte counties, long disputed, confirm Bryan’s statewide win and the election of Lee Grigsby and the railroad commissioners, all populists. Also notes social visits, charitied notices, and a standard postal letter list with a health ad for De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve.
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Thorson
Mitchell
Pierre
Lawrence
Butte
Bryan
Lee
Grigsby
de Witt
L. O. Gale
Arsenic in Flour Suspected in Milwaukee Bakery incident
Health officials investigated a large scale poisoning after arsenic was found in bread from Otto Figlesthaler bakery. About 600 to 1000 people reported illness in Milwaukee's northwest, with 100 families affected. Police believe deliberate poisoning aimed to ruin the bakery's business.
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Milwaukee
Health Department
Otto Figlesthaler
F. R. Weber
Herzberg
Robert Shearer
Knott
Department
Clark Street
Commissioner of Health
Kempster
Figlesthaler
Garret
President suspends tonnage dues for German vessels
The president issues a proclamation suspending tonnage dues for German ships entering U S ports. Effective Jan 3 German vessels must pay 6 to 30 cents per ton annually, restoring dues equal to those on British French Italian and other European ships. The action follows proof American ports deny Germans reciprocal access.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Great Britain
France
Italy
Spain
Europe
Asia
Daring Dublin Journalist Narrates Night Quay Rescue Jest
A Dublin journalist recalls a messenger from an Evening paper on the quays who hears a drowning voice. The water caller says he is drowning and the reply jokes about a late edition and a future paragraph in the morning, while other discourse mentions coronets and heraldry varieties.
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Dublin
London
Harper's Weekly Announces 1897 Plans and Subscriptions
Harper & Brothers outlines the 1897 program for Harper's Weekly, detailing cartoons serial stories and departments. The notice promises continued world news coverage and literary and artistic features, with new items by Mary E. Wilkins E. Benson and Bangs. One year subscription offers 400 dollars postage free in the United States Canada and Mexico.
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Harper’s Weekly
Europe
Lys
New England
Mary E. Wilkins
E. F. Benson
Styx
Ean Kendrick Bangs
Peter Nawall
W. D. Howells
United States
Canada
Mexico
Harer & Brothers
P. O
N. Y. City
C M and St P R R time card trains depart east and west
Train schedules show departures and arrivals from east west north and south poles with passenger and freight services. The notice also promotes Travelers Accident Insurance Co policies with weekly indemnity options and agent P. EB. Clark of Mitchell S. D.
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Travelers Accident Insurance Co
Hartford
Conn
P. EB. Clark
C. M. & St. P. Mitchell
S. D
Steamship Tickets For Sale Worldwide
Tickets for sale to or from all parts of the world via all lines at low rates. Reservations made free. For further information call on or address the designed F. E. Clark, agent C. M. & St. P. Mitchell, S. D.
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F. E. Clark
P. Mitchell
S. D
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Home Lodge
F. M. Hammett
Spencer Lodge
J. A. Hamaker
Mra
J. Kroack
Spencer
Chas. Lindekugle
I. Kurts
Omaha
Prosperity Lodge
D. of H
Cook
L F Rise
Henry Clark
Labie
Saml
T. Green
P. M
Mil
Waukee
Bakers Bread
House
House of Representatives
Carlisle Indians
Wisconsin
Curiaco
University of Wisconsin
Chicago
Michigan
Hoard
Exon
Ills
W. D. Hoard
Elgin Board of Trade
Fitz
San Francisco
Olympic Club
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
I. Woodward
W. Woodward
J. R. Bell
American Surety and Trust Company of
Horace Porter
New York
Thes Mat
Tenney
Wat F Bington
Archbishop Grose
Oregon
Duluth
Japan
French Monetary Commission
M. Fouille
Hale
Senate
Cincinnati
Fred Matthews
Alexander Hechtsburger
Matthews
Askaris
R. A. Hardeman
Georgia
Russia
Charles Cushman
Charlotte Cushman
George Robinson
Warrensburg
theChicago and Northwestern Railroad
Bombay
E. H. Sothern
Virginia Harned
Phildelphia
Indianapolis
Cornelius N. Bliss
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
New York City
Hayti
Vicksburg
Newport
Bath
Post Office Department
Standard Shoe Company
Nashville
Tenn
Langdon
N. C
Fitzimmons
Sharkey
Toronto
China
Missouri
St. Louis
West End
Wade Hampton
Columbia
S. C
Polk W. O'Sullivan
Prescott
A. T
Joseph Smith
Crookston
Minn
Northwestern
Western and Southern
Victor Window Glass Company
Anderson
Ind
California
William Drury
Mercer County
J. B. Koetting
South Side Savings Bank
Havana
Madrid
Anna Gage
U.S
Columbus
Kan
Harper & Brothers
Harper’s Magazine
C. M
ST. P. Railroad
John
Harker Bros
South Dakota
Holiday Clearingvale
Dry Goods
Cash Dry Goods House
A. H. Pehrson
Egal
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