WANT ADS REAL ESTATE AUCTION SEALED BIDS
Real estate auction with sealed bids opened Saturdays at 1:30 pm. Appraised prices listed for numerous parcels with cash or three-year terms at 6 percent from October 1. Buy now when cash is scarce. all land expected to fetch $100 or more. Weller Land Co Mitchell. Also ads for farms and real estate journal subscription and a listed house for sale with contact notes.
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Fat Ave
West
4Th Ave
Duff St
Weller Land Co
Mitchell . D
Ibe
Farm Real Estate Journal
Mitchell Requires House Numbers Citywide
City Auditor Thomas Wastcott announces all Mitchell residences must display three inch high numerals within ten days to satisfy postal delivery rules. Postmaster T. J. Ball notes current numerals fail to meet free delivery requirements. enforcement will bill owners for replacement costs. Twenty wooden street signs with black numerals were installed. council plans steel signs later, using discarded gas stand supports.
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Mitchell
Thomas Wastcott
T. J. Ball
Poor Boy Who Became Rich Dies at 71 in New York
Norman B. Ream financier and director in railroads banks and industrial firms died at a New York hospital aged 71 after an operation for intestinal trouble. A prominent US capitalist famed in the west where his career began he helped organize and sit on the board of United Steel Corporation. His rise from a farm and teaching school to wealth illustrates a classic self made path.
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New York City
Norman B. Ream
Read
United States
West
United Steel Corporation
Ream
Woman and Priest Murdered in New Britain Rectory
In New Britain Connecticut Rev Joseph Zedris pastor of St Andrews Lithuanian Catholic church and his house keeper Eva Gilman were found dead in the rectory. The priest was shot twice while the woman was strangled and also bore a wrist wound. The bodies lay in the parlor and attic room respectively. Police cite parish trouble and suspect revenge as a motive.
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New Britain
Conn
Joseph Zedris
Eva Gilman
Prison Twine Prices Drop For Next Year In South Dakota
Pierre South Dakota The commission to set prices of twine from the state penitentiary plant met to fix next year’s rates. The state board of charities and corrections the governor the state auditor and the penitentiary warden set prices by load sizes from 3000 pounds down to single orders with cash discounts. Prices are about a quarter of a cent lower than last year across all quantities.
Kentuckians Lynch Constable's Murderer
Mayfield Kentucky residents took from the county jail last night and lynched Thomas Tinker, charged with killing Constable Richard Tart. The mob shot the suspect, sending a message amid a volatile local crime case.
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Mayfield
Thomas ‘Tinker
Richard Tart
Ketman Mission Arouses Interest in Mitchell Meeting
Dr T J Ketman's second Mitchell mission draws fine crowd despite competing events. Lead singer WIlson with Williams and choruses supports the service while Ketman delivers a plain yet powerful sermon on Dives and Lazarus. Tonight Congregational Night features Dr Ketman on Gods Blockade and a solo by J a Wise. Afternoon gatherings run daily at 3:00 with a special youth session Saturday excluded.
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T. J. Ketman
Mitchell
W. T. Wilson
Messrs. Wilson
Ll. A. Williams
Ketman
Dives and
Lazarus
Heaven
Hell
Wetman
Vesta Murray Jana S. A. Wise
Boy Scout
Irish Fairy Tales Praised by Seamus MacManus in Mitchell
Seamus MacManus lectured at Dakota Wesleyan Science hall on Irish fairy tales and Shanachies, recalling generations of storytellers and a lasting belief in fairies. The Ireland-based writer, touring America, drew a large Mitchell audience and impressed as a faithful voice of a romantic nation.
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Seamus MacManus
Dakota Wesleyan
MacManus
Mr. MacManus
Tireland
America
Mitchell
Cheap meat won't return to Minneapolis markets
Minneapolis traders warn that cheap 12 cent round steak 20 cent porterhouse and 15 cent rib roast are gone as beef shortages grow. W B Briggs, banker and livestock expert, says the shortage is permanent due to basic production limits, not trusts. A H Whittemore, once South Dakota athlete and Brown alum, visits Minneapolis on business after coaching at Brown.
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Minneapolis
Minn
United States
W. B. Briggs
Northwestern National Bank
Stockyards National Bank
South St. Paul
St. Paul
Briggs
Maritz Report Said to Have Been Executed by Germans
Pretoria reports that Lieut. Colonel S. G. Maritz, leader of a Boer rebellion, was executed by German forces for treachery. The movement had German support from German Southwest Africa. No official confirmation yet.
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Pretoria
Union of South Africa
London
S. G. Maritz
South Africa
Mariiz
Mayo Proposes $1 Million Medical Foundation Plan
Minneapolis reports that Drs. William and Charles Mayo of Rochester propose a $1,000,000 medical research foundation to be overseen by the University of Minnesota. Interest would fund Rochester research open to graduate medical students, with dual access to facilities and Rochester instructors.
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Minneapolis, Minn
William J
Charles H. Mayo
Rochester
University of Minnesota Board of Regets
Medical College
Medical College Advisory Board
University General Alumni Association
Mayo Foundation
Medicine
Twin Cities
Million Women Aiding Fighters in Germany
Hanover report says over a million German women, organized in more than two thousand societies, volunteer across the war effort. They nurse in trenches and hospitals, aid convalescents, entertain wounded in halls, run cheap kitchens for dependents, knit garments, and care for children of working mothers whose husbands are at the front.
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Hanover
Germany
Associated Press
World’s Largest Soup Kitchen Opens in Brussels
The Associated Press reports Brussels hosts the world’s biggest soup kitchen run by the American Commission for Relief. About fifty thousand destitute people queue daily for nourishment as nearly six thousand gallons of soup and four thousand kilograms of bread are distributed each day.
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Associated Press
Brussels
American Commission For Relief
Soup For War's Wretched In Brussels Canteens
A Brussels report describes a vast soup operation run by the International Express Company aided by volunteers, with former hotel chefs directing the recipe and preparation. Over 100 workers, including cooks and cleaners, produce thousands of gallons daily for twenty-one canteens fed by the American flag, with destitute civilians lining up for hot meals.
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America
Brussels
Breaa
International Express Company
van Gand
Commission
Ancient Indian Miners and Copper Work in Lake Superior
The Lake Superior copper mines were vital to Indigenous peoples who lacked smelting knowledge. They exposed native copper in small pieces and large masses, cracking rocks with grooves and wooden handles, and using fires to aid breakage. Shafts up to 26 feet deep yielded several-ton masses moved with wedges and sticks, leaving thousands of stone hammers and vast debris across about 400 acres of worked ground.
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Lake Superior
É Gien
Aml Jent
Workven
139 WOUNDS IN THIS RESERVIST
Paris report notes Nene Vidal, reservist of Rainey, as he survived a shell explosion that left his lower body and limbs riddled with shrapnel. He endured from eight in the morning until evening in the trench without first aid before reaching an auxiliary hospital. The record now stands at 139 distinct wounds.
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Paris
France
Associated Press
Nene Vidal
Rainey
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