Local notes from Mitchell area chronicle events and updates
Miss Mamie Gormley visits from Letcher for days with relatives and a centerville birth. Mrs Brown’s daughter born, mother and child doing nicely. Various town happenings include dances, lectures, shifts at creameries, shop renovations, and a Cuban war pictures program at the Baptist church.
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Mamie Gormley
Letcher
Centerville
S. L. Brown
Pierre
Senator Johnston
John Sloan
Pukwana
John
Milwaukee Road
H. G. Nichols
Milltown
Jay Dundiss
Allan Ladd
F. W. Freyberg
Doctors Can't Cure It Contagious Blood Poison Exposed
A medical notice warns that doctors cannot cure contagious blood poison and that only 8. 8. 8. can reach the disease’s cause and expel it from the body. The text criticizes merury and potash remedies and urges a direct treatment approach.
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W.R. Newman
Staunton
S.S.S “Ie
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta, Ga
Alligator as a Vivid Character Study
The piece mocks the alligator as an unattractive, vicious creature. It asserts the animal’s fearsome gaze and intense presence, describing its brutality and realness with vivid, sensational language.
Jungle Food and Jungle Poison from Indian Planters' Gazette
A colonial note advises travelers in India to rely on local guides or a tame monkey to distinguish edible mushrooms from poisonous ones in the Terai. It describes careful observation of a monkey’s reaction and adds that elephants would also err if relied upon for such 판단, recommending a spare elephant as luggage.
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India
Indian Planters’ Gazette
Brave Briton and the Sidon Bridge Action
A British reinforcement under Arthur Cumming faced six guns on a long bridge at Sidon during the Syrian war. Cumming stood in uniform under fire, brushing dust from his boots, then the bridge and battery were captured with a cheer. The piece also notes amusing quips about Skowler and a jokey domestic scene about suitors in Borneo.
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Sidon
Syria
Arthur Cumming
Cumming
Caesar as Civilizer in Crawford’s Chron Chronicles
Marion Crawford argues Julius Caesar was the least cruel conqueror and the greatest lawgiver whose Julian code foundations shape modern justice. He turned brutal conquest into civilization, leaving humanity a future memory of his past and making Caesar indispensable to world history.
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Julius Cesar
Marion Crawford
Rome
Cesar
Alexander
Charlemagne
Napoleon
Caius Julius Caesar
It Was Ordered The Snowdrop Sentry Tale From Bismarck Era
A biography recounts how a sentry stood guard for over a century in a St. Petersburg garden after an Empress Catherine ordered it. The czar asked Bismarck to join him, but officials all claimed it was ordered and never questioned the reason.
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Prince Bismarck
St. Petersburg
Bismarck
Catherine
They Say and Gossip Echoes in Society Discussion
A reader cites Josephine Hill on the danger of repeating gossip as truth while shielding oneself from knowledge. An old French saying about a man’s character as a shadow parallels the idea that reputation can trail or precede a person.
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Josephine Hill
Ancient method of tar production described
The text notes wood tar is made as in 4th century BC practice. A bank is chosen, a hole is dug, wood placed, covered with turf, a fire lit beneath, and tar slowly drips into barrels to collect it.
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L. Griffin
Dé Smet
Mr. Griffin
National Buttermakers Association
Sioux Falls
Snyder
Blendon Township
Nic Schneider
Beulah Township
Miss Bertha
Will Slade
Miss Slade
Will
Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Mandolin Club
Court House
Ethan T. Colton
Abraham Lincoln
W.R. C
Colton
Lincoln
Geo. A. Silsby
Mitchell
National Bank Examiner
C. F. Zimmerman
Sibby
Messrs. Gamble
Burke
O. P. Reeves
Sanborn County
W. W. Davis
Gillis
S. G. Boyce
Fraternal Brotherhood of the World
Crosbie
Sioux City
Mr. Crosbie
Davison County
Jake French
Iowa
Ole Lugland
Mt. Vernon
French
A. H. Daniels
South Dakota National Guard
Gen
Humphrey
W.C.T. U
M. E. Chapin
E. D. Maxon
A. Ricketts
Ft. Pierre
L. O. Gale
Alex Dumas
Nellie Coffin
St. Paul
Chas Ferguson
S. G. Baughman
Farmer
Opera House
St. Patrick’s Day
Oscar Q. McNeil
Pueblo
Colo
T. W. D. Orswell
McNeil
Chicago
C. A. Miller
F. H. Graves
Clinton County
N. Y
Miller
Graves
Julia Gregg
R. R. Saul
Bates
Rockford
Illinois
Loyal Temperance Legion
Methodist Church
Francia Willard
Y’s
W’s
R. E. Hedges
Noble Theatre Co
Jacob Willkomm
Koch
Mel Smith
Stoddard
Munger
Barker
Saunders
Plankinton
Reform School
Baptist Church
Robert J. Lamme
University
Lamme
Maine
Hobson
Florida
I. W. Blake
Opular Science Monthly
Eczema
Brooklyn
Porrap D
Cestocat Ozo
Mrs. Brown
Pir. Skowler
Mr. Brown
Skowler
Emiler
Boston Transcript
Borneo
United States
Canada
Sole Proprietors
S.c.wells & Co
Leroy, N.Y
Hamilton, Can
S. H. Scallin
Scallin
Anh
Sappher
Capital
West
Egular Price
Special Farmers’ Institute
Farmers’ Own
Orth
F. D. Coburn
Kansas State Boarch of Agriculture
Bays
the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Journal
the Humane Alliance
Theorian
National Humane Alliance
Mitchell Capital
Washington
Mitchell Printing Co
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