Col L D Lyons remembered as Watertown citizen leader
Obituary notes Col L D Lyons a former Watertown newspaper man and early state writer who later managed Watertown’s waterworks. Also mentions John Alexander Dowie and his Zionist followers planning a large arrival in New York for a revival, with trains bringing 4000 to 5000 adherents and citywide meetings.
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Col. L. D. Lyons
Watertown
Republican
State Press
Col. Lyons
John Alexander Dowie
New York
Yankton Opposes State Fair Move and Seeks Voice
The Yankton press argues the city bore the state fair burden since 1904, funding preparations and facilities with citizen support, while Minneapolis failed to sustain it. It notes $3,000 yearly state aid later, warns Yankton cannot compete for location, and urges Yankton’s right to influence deals affecting its major financial interests.
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Yankton
Dakotan
Railroads Strain Under Prosperity Cause More Spending
The Minneapolis Tribune argues that prosperity is harming railroads by overloading systems and elevating costs. To avoid bottlenecks they must invest in rolling stock, power, yards, transfers, and even double or quadruple tracks. These improvements, though costly, are needed to sustain traffic, yet they will depress net earnings and raise fixed charges even after business ebbs.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Pennsylvania Troops Praised by Major Duvall
Major Duvall of the United States Army compliments the Pennsylvania National Guard, calling it the most homogeneous, solidly equipped, spirited, and valuable division available in the country. He regards the entire force as superior to others in proportion and readiness.
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Pennsylvania
Duvall
Artillery Corps
United States Army
National Guard of
Libels the Profession in Defense of Medical Experiments
A Journal of the American Medical Association piece rebuts a Russian writer’s claim that humans are routinely sacrificed in hospital and college clinics for science. The author condemns sensational anti vivisection rhetoric, notes public belief in such tales spreads through newspapers, and defends genuine medical research as benefiting mankind despite slander.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Veresayeff
Smidovitz
Iowa
Chicago
The Wrong Suggestion and Betsy Learns the Alphabet
A planter's wife teaches a fourteen year old slave Betsy the alphabet before the Civil War. Betsy struggles with the letter C and confuses the word see. The mistress asks about eyes and Betsy responds that eyes sleep with them.
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de Wah
Betsy
Harper’s Magazine
Remarkable regrowth pattern in the Redwoods
The redwood Sequoia sempervirens regenerates from dormant basal buds and from seeds. When a tree falls, shoots rise from the stump’s base in a circular ring. These shoots grow into massive adjacent trees, forming a ring of trees around the original trunk as they age and fall.
The Hotel of 2003 Clerk Michael Exchange
A trunk move ends with a hotel porter checking a life net as Mrs H Wanb informs staff from the top floor that her husband has fallen from a window in a dramatic hotel moment reflecting a Smart Set vignette.
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Michael
Hin Finish. Cassidy Engagement Reported
Cassidy plans marriage as he joins fiancé Joe in celebrating engagement. report notes his belief in thriller style, while Farrell reflects on his own thrill as a widower event unfolds.
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Cassidy
Farrell
Puet
Bacon and Shakespeare as One Extraordinary Individual
James Spedding argues in Essays that Bacon and Shakespeare may share the same genius and time. He notes the rarity of two such extraordinary writers existing together and contends genuine greatness shows distinct, unattainable individual styles.
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Aristotle
Plato
Bacon
Shakespeare
London
James Spedding
Physiological Autographs and Hand Fingerprints
The essay describes fingerprints as universal, unchanging identifiers from birth to death. It explains the unique patterns of arches, circles, and whorls on fingertips and how these delicate corrugations serve as a personal signature that cannot be counterfeited or erased by time.
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mirrors in the ceiling and vanity across history
The piece recalls historical figures who used mirrored ceilings to study posture and vanity. Beau Brummel in exile covered his ceiling with mirrors to observe elegance while resting. A notorious Cleveland figure had a glass ceiling for similar vanity. A Yorkshire gentleman of the last century paneled his ceiling with mirrors to enjoy cockfighting even on his deathbed as reflected in the overhead glass.
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Beau Brummel
Notoriou Cleveland
Tender husband keeps eyes as they are
A charming anecdote about General Grant and his wife Mrs Ulysses S Grant. While she faced strabismus his tender devotion led him to advise against a painful eye operation saying he might not recognize his sweetheart if her eyes were changed.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Odor Carriage Distances From Natural Sources
The text notes sulfur springs in Colorado send fumes twenty miles, Sri Lankan forest scents travel twenty five miles, and foggy conditions let travelers a hundred miles offshore sense the Colombian coast by a sea breeze.
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Colorado
Ceylon
Colombia
Inheritance Question Posed by Professor to Henry Peck
Professor Longhunger greets Henry Peck and asks what to make of his son. The father replies that the boy inherits his taste for lecturing from his mother, in a brief schoolmasterly exchange.
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Professor Longhunger
Henry Peck
The Savage's Forebodings From The Chicago Post
The savage contemplates two fates facing the first white man. If he fights, he will be exterminated, and if he lives peacefully, he will be cheated and starve. The excerpt reflects colonial tensions and fear.
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Chicago Post
His Clerical Robes and a Witty Exchange
A humorous exchange contrasts a child’s remark about his papa wearing evening clothes at parties with a remark about a minister wearing nightclothes while preaching. A separate note mentions plants and chloroform exposure, noting sensitive plants lose irritability in air charged with chloroform vapor.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Public Auction of Farm and Estate at Section 29-103-61
Sold due to relocation, the sale features live stock cattle and horses, 131/2 Stoughton wagon, farming machinery, household goods, and farm implements. Auction Thursday Feb 26 1903 at 10 am, terms cash under 10 and bankable credit with 8 percent interest for larger totals. Lunch provided. Bowen & Welch as auctioneers.
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Mitchell
Mt. Vernon
Mt. Vernon-Mitchell
Ray Marshall
Studebaker
Deering
Deering Harvester
Thompson
Fuller & Johnson
Ohio
Local Farm Auction At Cheney Farm In Beulah Township
Auction on February 19, 1903 at the old Cheney farm near Mt. Vernon and Mitchell sells a mare yearling cow calves wagon plow fertilizer stove incubator beds chairs and farm gear. Terms: cash under 10 and credit on bankable paper after 10 with 2 percent cash discount on all over 10. Auctioneers J S Serveson Son. Clerk William M. Smith. Proprietors J W Beddoes Elmer Pearson.
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Beulah Township
Mt. Vernon
Mitchell
Cheney Farm
J. S. Serveson & Son
Wm. M. Smith
J. W. Beddoes
Elmer Pearson
For sale A matched team of brood mares
A matched team of brood mares is offered for sale. Inquiries should be directed to M Miller at his dairy to arrange viewing and pricing details.
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M. Miller's Dairy
Balfour’s Mixed Religions Stir Prime Minister Position
High churchmen call Mr Balfour’s role as Prime Minister “without precedent.” It is likely his church stance mirrors Victoria and the King, Anglican in England and Presbyterian in Scotland.
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Balfour
Mr. Balfour
Queen Victoria
England
Scotland
Doan's Kidney Pills Promote Kidneys Health Warning Mothers
An old advertisement urges mothers not to scold when a child wets the bed, claiming kidney irritation and acid secretions cause the habit. It cites testimonials from Fergus Falls Minnesota and a Mrs Hartin endorsing Doan's Kidney Pills, priced 50 cents, with Foster Milburn Co as U S agents in Buffalo New York.
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Dean
Mitchell
W. M. Hartin
Lincoln Avenue
Fergus Minn
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Irish League Is Strong With 1326 Branches Claimed
The United Irish League asserts a robust network of 1,326 branches, signaling wide support and organizational reach across its region.
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Irish League
United Irish League
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Bacon and Shakespeare
Vermilyer
Boyden & Welch
H. McCormick
A. R. Reitzel
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