South Dakota farm life notes and holiday tales
Baker and nearby towns report fine weather, rising farm activity, and many improvements. Farmers sell stock and land, build barns and granaries, and arrange for milk testing. Several residents plan moves to California or Washington as Christmas greetings close a busy year.
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Warner
Breer
Carl Knuppe
Metzger Bros
Carl Milde
Clarke
South Dakota
North Douglas
South Davison
Fred Buhrman
Buhrman
Mt. Vernon
Garey
Boyden & Welch
Wolcott
Aurora County
California
B. L Wolcott
Baker Township
Wisconsin
Ben Wendl
Kneappe
Read
Taft
Ben
Jno
Burns
Washington
John
William
South Dakotas
Whistler
Badger Christmas Eve Recap and Local Happenings
The Badger Christmas program pleased residents with a short, fine show and many costly gifts. A literary society is planned at Mr Omesley’s next Thursday. Christmas skating took place on Logan's Lake. Mr and Mrs Williams welcomed a two week old baby daughter. John Be Wilson will shell corn for A M Logan. O D Stearns spent Christmas in Badger and likes his presents placed on the tree before opening.
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Rome Center
Wocknitz
Geilen
Johnny Cake
Rob Green
C. Pultz
Iowa
Fred Sheban
John Puliz
Rome Township
Ray Woodetruck
Blackman’s Lake
Santa Claus
Charley Drake
Ethan
South Dakota
Bernice Brown
Mitchell
Emma Haynes
Vermillion
Roy Boggs
Baby
Emerson
Neb
Fred McGwen
Marie Enebo
Canton
Bert Hatch
Hartfort
M. E
Little Folke
Holmes
Lizzie Arland
E. J. Haynes
E. L Barton
M. Gleason
Emery
Mae Lewis
Martin Gleason
C. J. Caster
Carl Caster
Sanborn County
H. J. Timm
Reeves
Chas, Reeves
Castalia
Alex Lockhart
Presente
Badger
Wilson
A. M. Logan
O. D. Stearns
O. D
Dondelinger Baby Born as Waugh Family Hosts Xmas Day
West Perry report notes a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Jos Dondelinger on December 20 a Christmas Day gathering hosted by W Waugh and family for friends and relatives with seasonal celebration.
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West Perry
Jos. Dondelinger
W. Waugh
Letcher Telegram Dashes of Christmas Doings and Moves
Mrs J B Davis was ill last week in Letcher as crowds gathered for Jake Stemler’s Christmas feast. Geo Oleson rejoins with a team of mules while Edwin M Wilson plans to move to Illinois. The Odd Fellows had a grand time at McCurdy's hall, winning 63 numbers.
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Sour” EvLiorr
J. B. Davis
Joe Corist
Bell School
John Graves
Riley Rider
Bridgewater
S. C. Michener
Jake Stemler
Victor
Geo. Oleson
Edwin M. Wilson
Illinois
Letcher Butcher
Chris Christopher
Gilbert Thorson
The
Odd Fellows
McCurdy’s Hall
Christmas Socials and a Wedding in Ethan
A Christmas party at Mr. and Mrs. John Castor’s home for Miss Sadie Martin drew a large crowd. Santa visited the church Christmas eve and gifts were shared by the fire. Miss Edne Tebey and Clarence Bordwell wed at the brides’ parents home with Rev. Corwin presiding. They depart for a honeymoon through several cities before settling in Westfield Iowa.
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Ethan
John Castor
Sadie Martin
Germechile
Vegas
Gleason
Indiana
Santa Claus
Williams
Illinois
F.C. Rathbun
Miles Christmas
Edne Tobey
Clarence Bordwell
Westfield
Iowa
Corwin
Markets of Mitchell Price Table Update
Market report from Mitchell lists farm prices as of Friday morning. Wheat and corn values appear with varied quotes, dairy butter noted with prices, and cattle ranges given for stockers and butcher classes.
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Ihriearestsenine Horry
Chilean exhibit grant and diplomatic moves headline week
Chilean Chamber of Deputies approves 500000 for Buffalo Pan American Exposition. Charles Z Francis of New York is nominated as envoy to Greece. Associate Supreme Court Judge J C Ludlow dies in New Brunswick New Jersey.
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Chilean Chamber of Deputies
Buffalo
Charles Z. Francis
New York
Greece
Supreme Court
J. C. Ludlow
New Jersey
New Brunswick
N. J
Nicaragua
St. Petersburg
Novoe Vremya
Russia
Stories of John Sherman’s methodical probity
The article praises John Sherman for fiscal integrity and strict adherence to law. It recounts a $1,000,000 signature that was refused because it was illegal, and a bureau head who sought a non advertised machinery purchase, which Sherman insisted must be advertised by law, saving the government a large amount.
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John Sherman
Claus
Mr. Sherman
Lesson in Seamanship From Captain Miron on the Saale
Captain Hans Miron, who died at his post during the Saale fire in Hoboken, recalled his first voyage as a cabin boy. A rough skipper forced him to wash the deck and remove his shoes, but he learned who truly led the schooner.
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Grizenko
Lord William Beresford
Santa Fe
Grand Duke of Saxe
Washington
W. E. Jones
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway
Cincinnati
Hans Miron
Hoboken
Miron
Four Kings and a Joker in Cody’s German Adventure
San Francisco Evening Post recounts Colonel Cody entertaining Kaiser William in Berlin with Buffalo Bill exhibitions. The feature included the Deadwood coach ride with Indians, cowboys rescuing passengers, and a quip about holding four kings and a royal joker.
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Colonel Cody
Germany
William
Cody
San Francisco Evening Post
Fresh Water Springs In The Gulf Of Mexico
The Chicago Record notes fresh water springs in the Gulf of Mexico where ships have long drawn ice cold water from geyser like outlets in salt water. Known for 200 or 300 years, these springs aided mariners becalmed in the doldrums. Today steamers rarely use them and younger skippers pay little attention to the charts.
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Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Chicago
Considerate Young Writer Offers Story for Life Subscription
A quip from London Tit-Bits shows a young writer offering a little story to a new journal editor in exchange for a life subscription, the editor joking about a long life. The youth clarifies he means the life of the paper, not his own.
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London
Anniversary Mystery Echoes Through Time
A reader recounts a forgotten wedding anniversary between spouses. The husband senses a significant day but cannot recall the date, while the wife notes the quiet moment as a sign of their bond. The Indianapolis Journal frames the anecdote as a tender, humorous reflection on memory.
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Indianapolis Journal
When a Fellow Has Money to Burn
The Philadelphia Record notes that a mother of marriageable daughters will offer a match for money. The remark contrasts with Germany where every social level from crown prince to common subject must learn a useful trade.
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Philadelphia
Germany
Steer by the Star Vision Poem
Arthur J. Burdick urges faith as a guiding beacon in life. In the Los Angeles Herald verse a lone ship battles darkness and turbulent seas. The message: a soul may reach safe harbor only when the Great Beacon of the sky remains in sight and mind.
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Arthur J. Burdick
Los Angeles Herald
The Voice Inside Us An Amateur Philosopher Reflects
An unnamed Camp Street speaker muses on how little we know our own bodies and voices after nearly five decades. He explains that a phonograph recording reveals an unfamiliar, often unpleasant voice, yet notes a strange, private thrill at hearing the imprint of the self. The piece quotes the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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Camp Street
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mistake of the New Riveter at Schoenville Plant
A Pittsburg News account describes six riveters at the Pressed Steel Car shop in Schoenville with missing fingers. Inside worker guides rivets, outside worker swings a hammer. if a rivet misfits, the inside man may lose a finger, or blood spurts from a finger stump.
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McKees Rocks
Schoenville
Pressed Steel
Pittsburg
Sulphur Disinfection Method Described for Rooms
A historical disinfection method uses sulphur in an iron kettle placed on bricks with a pint of alcohol poured over it. The room is sealed with rags stuffed in crevices and left for a day and night. Five ounces of sulphur per hundred cubic feet are used, followed by washing with carbolic acid and soap.
A Haberdasher Refuses Webster's Collar Size
The story recalls Daniel Webster asking for a collar in Boston. The clerk sizes up his neck and says the store lacks his size, directing him to the next shop around the corner, a harness maker known for horse collars.
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Daniel Webster
Boston
The Other Man's View of It
Fragmentary text discusses finance and perception with a humorous tone. It mentions a financier as someone who induces others to build fortunes and compares decay of redwood wood to fallen trunks overgrown by forests. The excerpt also notes a horse chasing a giraffe and the need for a clear advantage in the race.
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Wibe
Huma
Chicago News
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Port Said
Morocco
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Cape Colony
MacArthur
Secretary of State
Congress
Constantinople
Sofia
Bulgaria
Walcott
Massachusetts
Antwerp
Richard A. Wise
House
Virginia
Northern Pacific
Soo Roads
Great Northern
St. Paul
Matthews Bros
Toronto
Hitchcock
McKinley
Samuel M. Murphy
Tennessee
Memphis
Count von Buelow
Order of the Black Eagle
Joseph Cuneo
Denver
Thomas
Florence
Colo
Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Republic of Hawaii
Treasury Department
Keshpol- Morenstreicher Company
Quincy
Warsaw
Kooma
Formosa
Kathura
D. K. Pearsons
Gillis Johnson
Charles Wilcox
Middlesboro
Wilcox
Johnson
Roland Reed
St. Luke's Hospital
West One Hundred and Twenty-Second Street
New York City
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