Funeral of Guy Rand Held for Aged Californian Miner
Guy Rand aged 79 died Tuesday afternoon at his daughter Mrs. Dilley’s Mitchell home after a grippe. Funeral services were held at 9:30 this morning conducted by Rev. T. H. Youngman. Interment followed on the 11 o'clock train to Fremont Nebraska. Born in Cornwallis Nova Scotia December 18 1822 he married Susan Wood in 1848 and had seven children five living. A California gold fields pioneer he stayed about two years then moved to Boston later Minnesota and finally Fremont Nebraska where he lived since 1888. He was a longtime Methodist Episcopal and died peacefully in his chair at his Mitchell home.
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Guy. Rand
Dilley
T. H. Youngman
Fremont, Neb
Cornwallis
Nova Scotia
Susan Wood
Mr. Rand
California
Boston
Minnesota
Fremont
Neb
South Dakota
Oregon
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mitchell
Minard Found Guilty In Trunk Theft Case
Justice Reeves presided as the state proved Minard took a trunk checked to Sioux Falls. Key dispute centered on ownership between Mrs Keihm and Robro, with Robro’s board bill settlement cited. Minard was found guilty and fined $50 plus costs totaling about $100. appeal announced and a $100 cash bond posted.
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Justice Reeves
Dave Minard
Paul Robro
H. &. Hitchcock
Minard
L. Q. Hardesty
Robro
Sioux Falls
Hardesty
Circuit Court
Auditors Get Short Term Under New Code
The Pierre State Register reports that auditors elect will serve 22 months under the new code as successors qualify in January instead of March. This shortens the term and reduces perquisites, with only a salary increase left as possible remedy, arguing auditors deserve fair compensation like other county officers.
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Pierre
Citizen Opposes Gas Plant in City
Citizens oppose building a gas plant, arguing it would force replacements for electric fixtures and investment in gas or other plants. They advocate improving an efficient electric light plant and charging service to repay itself in 5 to 8 years, uniting against gas.
Public Sale Promises Neatly Catalogued Farm Auction
Public auction at Mitchell area on Thursday Feb 26 1903 begins at 10 o clock. Live stock includes multiple mares horses colts and cattle with various weights and ages. Farm machinery includes wagons plows separators mowers and implements. Household goods fire lunch provided. Terms: cash for $10 or less, credit on bankable security until Oct 1 1903 at 8 percent interest with cash discount over $10. Propertor A R Reitzel. auctioneers Boyden and Welch.
Auction Sale on Farm Near Mitchell and Mt Vernon
Public auction on March 5 1903 at 10 o clock on the seller s farm N W Qr Sec 27 103 61 six miles west of Mitchell six miles east of Mt Vernon on the Mitchell Mt Vernon road live stock and farm implements machinery and household goods with cash and bankable security terms bidding on horses cattle milch cows horses hogs and equipment including mccormick binder mower hay rake corn planter insulators and more 10 percent interest and 2 percent discount for cash on sums over 10 and time until November 5 1903 with Phil Tobin auctioneer Wm Smith clerk John Wara proprietor
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Bay Marshall
Stoughton
Studebaker
Deering
Deering Harvester
Fuller & Johnson
Boyden & Welch
H. McCormick
A. R. Reitzel
N. W
Mitchell
Mt. Vernon
Mitchell-Mt.Vernon
McCormick
Phil Tobin
Wm. Smith
John Wara
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Advertising copy for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders used by a nurse in a children's home in New York. Claims to break up colds in 24 hours, cure feverishness, headache, stomach troubles, teething disorders, and destroy worms. Priced 25 cents at all druggists, sample mailed free from Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, New York.
Prevent Lamp Explosions Warns on Yellow Flame Signs
The text warns that a yellow flame indicates poor burning in oil lamps and that foul lamps are prone to explosion, emphasizing the danger and urging caution.
Free sample of Chamberlain's tablets at L O Gale store
Advertises a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets from L O Gale's drug store. Claims the tablets are easier to take and gentler in effect than pills and do not cause constipation. Regular size priced at 25 cents per box.
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Chamberlain
L. O. Gale’s
Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills End Skin Suffering
An advertisement extols Chihura Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, claiming they cure eczema psoriasis scalled head milk crust tetter and ringworm. It urges bathing with Cuticura Soap drying softly, applying Ointment to calm inflammation, and taking Resolvent Pills to purify the blood, promising swift relief and cure.
The Alaskan Boundary Ends Long Dispute
The London Daily News notes a thirty year dispute resolution with a treaty creating a London tribunal with no appeal. It praises the peace prospects and calls the settlement a sign of improving England and America relations, despite past tensions with Germany over Venezuela.
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London Daily News
Lord Rosebery
Jarndyce
America
England
Germany
Venzuela
Washington
London
Globe
A Certain Care For Chilblains Shake Into Your Shoes
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder to cure chilblains frost bite damp sweating and swollen feet. The product is sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
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Allen
Comfort In Cycling Umbrella Fan Invention
A new bicycle accessory combines an ordinary umbrella canopy with rotating blades driven by air as the cycle moves. The device aims to provide cooling air to the rider while cycling. In a separate note, L. O. Gale’s drug store offers free samples of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to relieve bad tastes, biliousness and related ailments.
National Guardsmen End Caterpillar Plague in Salem
Salem New Jersey residents report a caterpillar outbreak ended by National Guardsmen. Rifle discharges caused caterpillars to loosen from trees and be swept away, eliminating the infestation. The incident highlights unusual military aid resolving a local pest problem.
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Salem
N. J
Pin Worn by Sixteen Brides Tells Family Marriage
In Paterson New Jersey Miss Aimee Stagg married Augustus Post wearing a pin that had been part of sixteen brides in the family since it first appeared with her grandmother Mrs Stephen Courter sixty six years ago. Each bride in the line has included the token in her wedding attire.
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Aimee Stagg
Augustus Post
Paterson
N. J
Stephen Courter
The Majesty of the Law in Melbourne Jury Case
A Melbourne juror dodged service claiming recent employment would end if he appeared. The judge frowned, fined the juror a penny, and paid the coin himself.
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Melbourne
Spangler Named as Gamble's Successor Candidate
Sioux City papers report Sioux City businessman Timon J. Spangler as predicted successor to Senator Gamble by spiritualist Anna Eva Fay. Fay told Canton observer C. H. Cassili that the next South Dakota senator will be a young Mitchell native with ambition and backing, named Spangler.
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Anna Eva
Fay
Timon Spangler
Gamble
Timon J. Spangler
Sioux City Journal
Robert J. Gamble
United States Senate
Sioux City
Anna Eva Fay
Muss Fay
C. H. Cassili
Canton
Miss Fay
South Dakota
Mitchell
Spangler
Remedy For Negro Question and Health Remedies
The piece argues against split votes as a solution to racial suffrage and endorses Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee as long term paths to self reliance. It likens education and moral training to repairing a nation and credits the Southern Education Board with aiding citizenship. It then shifts to a medical analogy about nutrition and health, praising Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for digestive and systemic ailments, noting it contains no alcohol or narcotics.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Delaware
South
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Southern Education Board
Republic
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Rocky Mountain Tea at Night Says Love Is Best
A short poem urging devotion to loved ones and taking Rocky Mountain Tea at night as a symbolic remedy. The author H Seallin signs the verse with a simple personal touch.
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Rocky Mountain
H. Seallin
Paris detective hides in wine barrel to trap thieves
A Paris detective concealed himself in an empty wine barrel at night to uncover why wine is stolen from Bercy stores. The thieves carried him to their disused factory headquarters, enabling arrests of four culprits and the capture of crucial information.
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Paris
Bercy
West New York Man Kills Fourth Aggressive Bulldog
Julius Hager, near his home in West New York New Jersey, was bitten by a bulldog that attacked him. He grabbed the dog by the tail and killed it by smashing it against a telephone pole, the fourth such attack he endured within a month.
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Julius Hager
New York
N. J
Hager
German War Department Keeps Duplicates of Bridges
The German war department maintains stock duplicates of bridges in the empire likely to be damaged or destroyed in war. It also possesses duplicates of many French bridges and bridges in other countries of interest.
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German War Department
Empire
Illiteracy in Nebraska Ranked Least of States
Nebraska leads all states with the smallest illiterate population relative to its size, followed closely by Iowa, Oregon, Ohio, and Kansas. Massachusetts, which was first a decade ago, now ranks ninth in illiteracy among states.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Oregon
Ohio
Kansas
Massachusetts
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