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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1904
Page
5
The city faced a massive blaze starting at the Pelletier store when flames spread through a six story building and threatened the westward wholesale district. Firemen fought back waves of heat, protecting the Tribune and Metropolitan blocks as the blaze shifted toward Nebraska street and the Warfield Howell building, aided by volunteers and water pressure improvements.
A poetical vignette from Harpers Gazar describes the Old Year clinging to its chair as the New Year settles in. The Old Year recalls summer, love, sacrifice, and vanishing days while the New Year, warned by the Old, hesitates and finally slips away in the night leaving the New Year alone.
Mrs. Hamilton frets over partridges and polished routines as her husband laments focus on learning and domestic order. A late-night kitchen scene shifts to a resolve to balance homemaking with education, love, and a simpler, richer life for family and future year.
A Santa Claus cellar fire started by Ned Grown and a Milne boy assistant ignited a blaze in the Pelletier Dry Goods lousement. The conflagration swept the heart of the business district, destroying over two blocks and causing losses estimated at 2,090,000 to 2,500,000. Firemen fought to halt the wall of flames as the blaze consumed structures from the Yoy building east wall at Fourth and Jackson to Pierce Street, sparing only The Tribune.
A massive blaze sweeps the Metropolitan through Warfield and Selzer blocks as flames leap across Pierce Street. Firemen fight two directions with twelve hoses and 35 men while crowds flee and dynamite rumors swirl. South Sioux City and Omaha crews aid. the Northwestern bank and West hotel burn. 5,000 spectators endure for hours.
Miss Eleanor Robson arrives in New York on the steamer Deutschland after a long London engagement at the Duke of York theater. She will perform here on December 28 then join her company in St. Louis.
A fragmentary verse recounts Holly declaring dominance in their travels and Ivy vowing to be loud and proud. Holly asks for mercy as Ivy denies villainy in the lands they visit.
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