Senator Mitchell Capital dies after long service in senate
The article notes the death of Mitchell Capital Morrill who had represented in the senate for sixty one years. He died Tuesday morning in Washington from pneumonia. The piece also mentions political chatter about party headquarters and Pierre during the legislative session. It includes a brief feature on Home furnishing by Kiam Martin Johnson and a reader letter about Hood's Sarsaparilla and Spanish loanwords.
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Or Morrill
Senate
Spain
Grenadiers
Grenada
Canada
Chicago Dispatch
Local Social Notes and Busy County Updates
Mrs I Windle arrives from Sioux City as guest of Mr and Mrs S H Scallin. Mrs Judge Porter and Day Smith visit from Eldora Iowa. Mrs A E Dean and Miss Annie Haynes return from Mt Vernon. J H Walters from Parker joins W Priest’s barber shop. Miss Stevenson from Pierre stays with Miss Jessie Warne. County officials set to convene with new officers. auditor starts March 1. Fire alarm on Main Street. several locals home for holidays. Doctors and educators attend SD Educational Association meeting in Redfield. Mrs Geo G Cowhick begins osteopathy studies in Kansas City. Young People’s Society elects new Christian Endeavor officers. The Raymond House bus gets a high-end paint job by Alex Dumas with help from Roy Phelps. Editor Geo W Kingsbury tours Yankton en route home. Local church improvements funded by Dr Thomas Robinson of Allegheny PA. A grammar pupils list over 90 percent in exams. Unseasonably warm day with 58 degrees. L Indra back in town. Jancis Maguire invited to Nebraska Traveling Men’s Club banquet in Lincoln. Col William Jennings Bryan to be guest.
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Judge Porter
Day Smith
Eldora
Iowa
A. E. Dean
Annie Haynes
Mt. Vernon
J. Q. Anderson
Chamberlain
S. J. Moore
J. H. Walters
Parker
N. Buger
Freeman
Bon Homme County
W. B. Tobey
J. W. Ottman
Ethan
Jonn Garmony
J. W. Sanford
J. E. Turner
W. I. Graham
L. A. Stout
H. L. Bras
Browne
Redfield
South Dakota Educational Association
Geo. G. Cowhick
Kansas City
Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
Congregational Church
E. Dot Robinson
Fred Johnson
Frank L. Mayes
Marjorie Ruth
Orwin K. Peck
Raymond House
Alex. Dumas
Mitchell
Alex Baye
Alex
Roy Phelps
L. Indra
Jancis Maguire
Nebraska Traveling Men’s Club
Lincoln
Col
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Maguire
State University
Grand Danish wedding at Prosper farm joins Tory Belerson and Annie Kjelmyr
On December 29 at 11 a.m. in Prosper township Rev. A C Stevens officiated the marriage of Tory Belerson of Prosper and Annie Kjelmyr daughter of Peter and Mrs Kjelmyr of Mitchell township. Relatives from Canton attended. The reception featured dinner, songs, music, and a generous cash gift totaling about $68.
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Prosper Township
Tory Belerson
Prosper
Annie Kjelmyr
Peter Kjelmyr
Mitchell Township
A. C. Stevens
Hans Reierson
Page Farm
Canton
Agnes Bergquist
Pete Kjelmyr
Smarter Than He Looked Becomes Cigar Caper
A Boston broker brags of a bright office boy who is sent for cigars with a one dollar bill. The boy returns four cigars, then later presents six more with the quip Here’s the rest of them cigars Mr Margin. The incident shows the lad’s quick wit.
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Boston
Margin
Boston Commercial Bulletin
Family Resemblances in a Humorous Exchange
The Toronto World quotes a playful exchange about a baby named Emma-Beth who has no teeth and is hairless, drawing a humorous comparison to her mother and forebears. The joke hinges on visual traits and family likeness.
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Emma
Beth
Mommer
Pepper
Toronto
Little Pimples Turn to Cancer
Cancer often results from impurity in the blood inherited from generations back. A mere pimple or scratch may develop into malignant cancer as described by a patient who used S.S.S. and saw a prior lesion vanish. the disease later recurred after ten years.
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Gillsburg
Stranger Than Fiction Raises Probable Truth Odds
A London magistrate ponders unlikely probability after a domestic servant attempts forged checks with a mysterious “Mr. Gilbert” who disappears. A man later collapses in the street, later found with similar forged notes, implicating the unknown companion. In Calcutta, adjutants resembling soldiers from the stork family blur lines between birds and grenadiers.
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London
Illustrated London News
Gilbert
Mr. Lane
Height and sight statistics of British army personnel
A 19th or early 20th century statistic notes that 23 of every 1000 soldiers are six feet tall or taller, 88 are five feet eleven inches, 58 are five feet ten inches, and 785 are under five feet nine inches. It also states that in only three out of ten cases is sight equal in both eyes.
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Scott
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T. Gilman
O. L. Branson
J. W. Seaman
H. P. Beckwith
Aas
First National Bank
South Dakota
D. T. Gilman
J. D. Newcomer
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Anna
Agusta Maguire
Geo. W. Kingsbury
Yankton
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Thos, Robinson
Allegeny
A Grammar
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Fred Rubio
David Noble
Paul Hoyt
Ethel McDougall
Grace Smith
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Dak
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Porto Rico
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Harper's Weekly
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F. J. McCarthy
S. Spree
E.f.benson HS
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Arnold White
Alaska
BE. S. Martin
Caspar
Whitney
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
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Capital
Elvan
Tan
Special Farmers Institute
F. D. Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
THE
Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal
the Humane Alliance
National Humane Alliance
Hitchell Capital
Davison County
Inter
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Mitchell Printing Co
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