Local items and notices from Lisbon area
Local brief notes include Winsor & Mohr window lettering. Beulah township wells. Lisbon schools closed to curb scarlet fever. pork sales and poultry raffles. Hood's Sarsaparilla touted. property losses from a Lisbon township barn fire. marriage notices from Lawler House and Palatine township. plans to close Fred Weidmann's Lawler street shop. political economy reading by the Political Equality Club. tax law clarifications. Ayer products advertised. John A Logan lecture postponements in Mitchell.
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Lisbon Township
Rink Lake
IL. B. Rogers
Paul Page
Boston
Wood Advantage
J. R. Smith
T. J. Ball
T. C. Burns
Scallin
Hood
Geo. Stevens
Flarley
Lawler
Randen
Andrew M. Crossett
Mias Lizzie Arnold
Sioux City
Iowa
Hall
Clubbing List Offers Periodicals Across the Country
The notice advertises a service listing every periodical of value in the United States and Canada with rates available before January Isf. The terse ad targets readers seeking newspaper and magazine listings in a nationwide scope.
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Canada
Mitchell Republic shows five years of steady publishing
The Mitchell Republican celebrates five years under its current management, praising the paper as a credit to Mitchell and noting its prosperity and valued advertising columns appreciated by local businesspeople.
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Rapid City Journal
Mitchell Republican
Mitchell
Special clubbing rates on leading magazines and papers
For the next ten days we offer special clubbing rates on Harper's Monthly Weekly and Bazar Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper The Century Magazine Scribner's Monthly The North American Review The Forum The New York Tribune The Chicago Inter Ocean and other high class periodicals. These rates apply with any holiday offers.
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Harper’s Monthly
Frank Leslie
Century Magazine
Scribner’s Monthly
the North American Review
the Forum
New York Tribune
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Christmas observances across churches mark holiday goodwill
The article notes Christmas services and celebrations at Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal, Norwegian Lutheran and Catholic churches. It describes all age groups renewing youth memories, sharing charitable deeds, and noting changes from past to present as gifts and Christmas trees are prepared for evening programs and morning Christ celebration.
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Tuniny
Judge Tripp on Money Land and Railroads
An Aberdeen Republican interview recaps Judge Tripp's views. He says money is a government stamp rather than gold weight, that land has no private property status, and predicts railroads will unite under single management within about two decades.
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Aberdeen Republican
Fep
Fist Equality in Silver and Gold Debate
The New York Herald argues against 80 or 0 agents in silver being worth more than a gold dollar, warning that such equality through legislation would fail. It likens the proposal to pairing a horse with a mule and predicts gold leaving the country, higher prices, and widespread discontent.
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New York Herald
Penitentiary Removal Proposal Stirs Sioux Falls
Father Haire recalls a push to move the state penitentiary from its current site to Mitchell, proposing a relocation up to sixty miles and a basin for water power, a plan that sparked laughter in Sioux Falls as impractical.
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Father Haire
Yankton
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Queen City
University Prospects for Larger Attendance Next Term
Prospects for a larger attendance at the university next term are favorable. Miss Locke, formerly connected with the school and popular with students, will arrive at the start of the term to join the teaching staff.
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Alouch
Locke
Mathews Declines Senate Candidacy in Statewide Boost
Brookings Press reports G A Mathews receives broad encouragement for U S Senate but he declines the candidacy and states he is out of politics. Local supporters praise his past service while canvassing continues across papers statewide.
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Brookings Press
G A. Mathews
U. S Senate
Emily Rogers Named Principal of Pierre High School
Emily Rogers has been elected principal of Pierre High School where she has served as a teacher for the past year. The promotion reflects well on her work in the Pierre schools.
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Pierre
Emily Rogers
Miss Rogers
How to Get Rid of Sideache
Practical guide fragment explains sideache from running or overexertion and hints at remedies. The brief notes common experience across ages and mentions sudden onset during activity.
Allcock’s Porous Plasters Prove Quick Relief
Testimony from F Roessner of New York describes severe side pains eased by two Allcock's Porous Plasters after other medicines failed. He states the relief is satisfactory and astonishing and recommends the plasters to others troubled by pains.
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Allcock
F. Roessner
West 58Th Street
New York
Late land decisions in McCook County cases
The secretary of the interior denies a motion to review May ruling that awarded a fund to the claimant in Juzania E Ryan vs David Davis. In W A Houts vs William Westphal the contest against Westphal's homestead entry isDismissed. The decision upholds final proof and cites long delays and policy to quiet land titles with supportive testimony and strong final proof.
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Juzania E Ryan
David Davis
McCook County
Secretary of the Interior
W A Houts
William Westphal
Scarlet fever cases reported in Lisbon township
Scarlet fever cases were reported in the Nabinger and Ireland families of Lisbon township. Dr Windle visited Thursday and trustees Green Stevens and Small acted Saturday to quarantine the cases.
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Lisbon
Nabinger
Ireland
Windle
Green, Stevens and Small
Wager Sparks Lip Adornment Battle in Vienna
A wager in Vienna pits young Austrian nobles against hotel and restaurant waiters over mustache styling. Aristocrats persuaded hotels to ban mustaches, but waiters left, were rehired by younger men for pay, and some hotels resisted. The Association of Waiters defends honor, threatening sanctions. The bet may be lost, granting victory to the waiters if aristocratic dictate fails. Cor. London Standard.
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Vienna
Karnthnerstrasse
Kamnthnerstrasse
Hotel
Imperial
Vienna Jeunesse Doree
Association of
Waiters
London Standard
Difference Between a Turkey and Me Conundrum Tale
A visiting stranger at a European sojourn refuses to tell stories or jokes. When pressed, he reveals a single conundrum, noting the joke about a turkey and himself — the bird is stuffed after death, while he remains alive.
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Mr. Depew
Depew
Europe
Chairman Depew
Double Cabbed Locomotives Built by DL&W Shops at Utica
At the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad shops in Utica eighty skilled workers are assembling a peculiar locomotive called the culm burner. The engine features two cabs for engineer and fireman, six large driving wheels, and weighs thirty five to sixty tons. It hauls heavy freight and uses refuse coal from mines as fuel, preventing waste.
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
Utica
Albany Argus
Oldest German railway stripe to be removed
Berlin Letter notes the Nürnberg Furth line, the first German railway, will lose its yellow post stripe once used to mark pre-railway cars. The Bavarian government orders removal to standardize car appearance across Bavaria after fifty five years.
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Germany
Nurnberg- Furth
Thurn and Taxis
Nurnberg
Left Hand Thunder's Swell Wedding at Lower Brule
A Sioux wedding at Lower Brule agency on October 27 united Chief Left Hand Thunder with a Sioux belle. A white clergyman performed the ceremony as representatives from many bands joined in a royal feast afterward, described as the grandest of its kind. Left Hand Thunder is noted as wealthy and generous in hospitality.
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Left Hand Thunder
Lower Brule Agency
Big Reservation
St. Paul Globe
Eagle snatches prize hunting dog in Indiana action
Quail hunters near Edinburgh Indiana reported a large gray eagle pounced on a setter during training. The bird gripped the dog with talons and carried it off before the owner could stop it with several shots. The dog owner had paid $100 for the pup.
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Edinburgh
Ind
Cin
Signati Enquirer
Men and horses plunge from 110 foot precipice
James Wilson and John Martin of Edwardsville rode to New Albany to fetch a coffin for James Routh. A severe storm struck as they returned, the road near a cliff in darkness. Lightning, thunder, and rain caused their wagon and horses to fall 110 feet into a hollow. Wilson is gravely injured. Martin seriously hurt. one horse dead, the other crippled. coffin and wagon wrecked.
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James Wilson
John Martin
Edwardsville
New Albany
James Routh
Wilson
Martin
Louisville
It Costs to Live in a New York Hotel
The New York Star notes the boarding house decline and flood of new hotels with high prices. It cites a Fifth Avenue hotel asking nearly $200 per week for a family suite, while newer establishments push lower rates to fill rooms before May 1 contracts and ledgers are finalized.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
New York Star
Browning Society Gathers in Boston After Summer Recess
More than 150 members of the Boston Browning Society met at the Hotel Brunswick in a lively session after summer recess. Eight new members joined during a brief business meeting as the group planned to study Browning’s The Ring and the Rook this winter.
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Browning Society
Boston
Browning
Hotel
Brunswick
Boston Browning Society
Boston Advertiser
Dentist Pulls Princess Maud’s Tooth in London
Dr William C Boswell a young London based dentist from Baltimore pulled a wisdom tooth from Princess Maud of Wales last week. The operation reportedly drew £10 and the tooth was mounted and enshrined in a velvet case as a priceless advertisement.
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William C. Boswell
Baltimore
London
Maud of Wales
Eugene Field
Chicago News
Child Suicides Rise Among Berlin Youth in 1890
The Medical and Surgical Reporter notes from Jan 1 to Sept 1, 1890 that 62 children—46 boys and 16 girls—died by self harm in Berlin. Ages ranged from under 7 to 18. 24 were 15, 14 were 14, 9 were 18, and 7 were 12. Causes are largely unknown, though suspected severe mistreatment by servants or teachers.
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Berlin
The Trouble with a Pips
The rise in cigars pushes smokers toward the pipe as a preferred alternative. The smoker accepts the difference, but the observer may lament the shift. A cigar's scent is singular while a pipe evokes memories of its predecessors, a sentiment noted in the Exchange.
Respectable Poverty in Cape Cod Talk
In a domestic vignette Miss Baque Bey, Mrs. Baque Bey, and Miss Emerson discuss wealth at church. Mrs. Baque Bey questions the Emersons’ riches. Miss B. B. counters that they are not wealthy as others wear new fall spectacles while Miss Emerson wears summer glasses.
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Baque Bey
B. B
Miss Emerson
Cape Cod
Turtle halts Barnard mill by mud turtle incident
A mud turtle wandered into the engine feeding pipe at the Barnard cotton mill and halted operations for about an hour on Monday. The machinery remained unharmed. The report appears in the Fall River Globe.
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Barnard
Fall River Globe
Wonders Under a Marsh in Oneonta Unearth Ancient Forest Layers
The Albany Journal reports a Oneonta dig uncovering a marsh with twelve feet of blue clay beneath three forest layers: upland beech oak maple. soft swamp elder basswood dogwood. and conifer pines hemlock spruce. A five foot square flat stone served as a primitive hearth with ashes and bones, suggesting early human cooking with no tools found.
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Oneonta
Albany Journal
Emigration from Iceland Shrinks Population to Canada and America
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes Iceland's depopulation from steady emigration to Canada and the United States. About 20,000 natives, nearly a quarter of the population, left in the last year. Exposed to harsh labor in the north and east, poor harvests worsened hardship and spurred departures.
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America
Iceland
Canada
United States
New York Commercial Advertiser
Frog Child Born in Birmingham Described as Warty Creature
A Birmingham England birth reports a child bearing strong froglike traits including skin texture three fingers and four toes on each limb and large lidless eyes. Parents reportedly pray for its death amid two earlier published frog child cases in Nevada and Goshen Indiana from 1889.
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Birmingham
England
Nevada
Goshen
Ind
St. Louis Republic
The Age of Indian Outbreaks Is Past
The Oregonian argues that there is no danger of a serious Indian outbreak in the northwest due to railroads and rapid communication. It claims outbreaks cannot be organized under observation and would be crushed quickly with troop concentration, noting Standing Rock as an example of past dangers.
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North West
Standing Rock
Portland Oregonian
Death in the saddle near Payson under tragic gunshot
Special from Payson A T reports John Bolton shot himself while horseback riding toward Salem. He was found atop his horse with half his skull blown away, leaning forward. authorities believe he died in the saddle about two hours earlier.
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Payson
A. T
John Bolton
Salem
San Francisco Chronicle
Rubber Velvet Created From Felt and Rubber Cloth
A new material called rubber velvet is made by sprinkling powdered felt of any color over hot soft rubber cloth. The result resembles felt cloth but remains elastic waterproof and unusually light.
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Keifer
Enok
Beulah Township
W. H. Helwig
Charlier Leib
Daily Republican
Capital
Mitchell Printing Company
H. D. Crawford
Political Equality Club
Eli
Robinson
Ayer
Palatine Township
Aurora County
D. M. Powell
Lizzie P. Stemler
Geo. W. Worthen
Rockport
Hanson County
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E. E Clough
John A. Logan
University Prospects
Tcomeson
Nood
Moon
Evons
A. Gorr
Pelea
Baeble
All Tery
Tite
Saas
Prince Edward Island
Wade Wilfong
Pasquotank County
N. C
Sedalia
S Jacobs OJ
N. Ogden
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St. Jacobs Oil
SUM Cies
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Hagerstown, Md
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