Retail Merchants Plan Committees Amid Dispute with Catalogue Houses
The Commercial League forms committees for the South Dakota Retail Merchants Association meeting to oversee arrangements and entertain guests. The move follows a legal move by Montgomery Ward to block further action against the association and its efforts to curb catalogue house sales. The aim is to prevent price undercutting by wholesalers and manufacturers who sell to catalogue houses, preserving retailer margins.
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Phe
South Dakota Retail Pealers Association
Bield
Poplaht Wieeling Liere
Montgomery Ward
Glileapo
Tyler
South Dakota
Commercial League
H. D. Butterfield
Robert Burns
Delvan T. Becker
S. G. Boyce
I. W. Seaman
Dr. E. F. Reamer
H. 0. Preston
L .Q. Gale
B. M. Johnston
D. M. Tiffany
W. C. Metcalf
G. BR. Wilt
W. Hi. Turner
W. H. Conyes
L. D. Milne
J. I. Morrow
Hl. L. Jas
C. W. Gillis
W. C. Webster
J. N. Crow
If. BP. A. McGovern
W. H. George
George Ilust
W. A. Barber
Prayer Chain Forgery Claim Ties to Bishop of Massachusetts
The Bishop of Massachusetts disavows a circulating Prayer Chain letter claiming his endorsement. He warns the document is a forgery aimed at deceiving readers and urges protection of the public from this rascality. The note urges nine copies and warns of misfortune for noncompliance.
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Republican
Massachusetts
United States
Episcopal Church
Jerusalem
Prayer Chain Forgery Warns Clergy in California
A local letter reports an official notice attributed to the Bishop of California warned clergy of a new prayer chain. The writer calls the message a forgery, claiming the prior fraud disrupted Mitchell residents two weeks earlier and frightened readers.
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California
Mitchell
Clubbing Offer Promotes Capital With Local Publications
The offer extends for 90 days tying The Capital to The Weekly Inter Ocean at 1.35 and The Semi Weekly Sioux City Journal at 1.60 plus Farmers Tribune Sioux City price 1.25. Sample copies available on application.
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Sioux City
South Dakota Retail Merchants Plan Mitchell Convention
Secretary Tyler outlines the South Dakota Retail Merchants Association convention in Mitchell January 15 to 17. The program includes welcomes by Mayor Branson and P. F. Wickham, committee announcements, and multiple talks on retail mail order competition advertising and diary business impacts.
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Tyler
South Dakota Retail Merchants’ Association
Mitchell
O. L. Branson
Repsonse
PP. F. Wickham
Alexandria
A. F. Grimm
Parkston
L. S. Tyler
Orime
Dell Rapids
A. George Pederson
John V. Farwell Co
Chicago
Loftus
de Smet
Hon
A. EH. Lee
Vermillion
L. G. Levoy
Webster
S. KE. Bronson
Edward Nerver
A Mittlestaedt
Milbank
Elmer Walter
Iroquois
L. N. Crill
Elk Point
W. F Enright
St. Paul
J. Vetch
Sioux City
T. J. Corshon
Delmont
W. H. Monroe
D. H. Evans
Tracey
Minn
Association
A. J. Alwin
S. B. Nelson
Laverne
Amazing Loss by Fire in U S In Five Years
The St Louis Globe Democrat notes the United States has suffered over a billion dollars in fire losses in five years. It cites 3292 million in San Francisco and 890 million in Baltimore and argues工程ers estimate that billion dollars could fund five Panama canals and urges reforms in building and inspection.
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St. Louis
State Teachers Association meeting at Sions Falls
The annual State Teachers Association met last week in Sions Falls with 708 tickets sold and hundreds unregistered. About twenty delegates from our county attended as sessions covered four instructional sections plus library and school board groups. Prof. O J Kern from Winnebago Illinois gave illustrated talks on rural schools and grounds, urging progress with industrial work and farming basics. A teachers meeting is planned for Saturday January 5 from 10 to 3 in the county courthouse.
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State Teachers’ Association
Sions Falls
Farwest
O. J. Kern
Winnebago County
Ill
Court House
Cured of Lung Trouble in Kershaw South Carolina
C O Floyd of Kershaw narrates a eleven year relief from consumption after six months on Dr Kings New Discovery. He describes weight gain from 135 to 170 pounds and cessation of coughing. Trial bottle offered free at Diehl Brown's drug store with 50 cents and one dollar sizes.
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C. O. Floyd
Kershaw
8. C
Dr. King
Diehl & Brown
Church Advancement At Congregational Church Annual Meeting
The Congregational church held its annual meeting with reports from departments, officer elections, and light refreshments. The Endeavor Society nearly doubled in size, Sunday school attendance grew, and the Ladies Aid increased funds while benevolences rose. Officers elected included Clerk Mrs R E Ruth and Treasurer S Cattrell with trustees and committees named. A separate anecdote recalls Senator Hanna’s hash orders in Washington.
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The
Congregational Church
Woodly
Endeavor Society
Ladies Aid
R. E. Ruth
S. Cattrell
F. J. Herrick
J. S. Daniels
C W. Adams
R. P. Loomis
Geo. A. Silsby
New Year Resolution Endorses Bitters for Cures
A New Year resolution urges sticking to Bitters after a long history of claimed cures. The note emphasizes avoiding experimental remedies and highlights the product's 53 years of reported success.
The Sciara Serpent Train From Nordic Pine Forests
In July or August a tiny wormlike insect called the sciara forms a huge serpentlike procession in pine woods of Norway and Hungary. Thousands join to travel slowly, weaving around obstacles and sometimes circling endlessly. local peasants view it as a sign based on whether the train crosses clothing placed in its path.
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Pone
Norway
Tipula
M. Guerin-Meneville
Fair Play Appeals Across Social Strata
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that fair play resonates instantly across all groups from mischievous schoolboys to rough wharf workers and sailors. Abstract virtue falters, but framing ethics around fair play yields immediate, powerful effect.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Melodrama Scene Has Dagger Replaced by Conscience
An actor forgetting a dagger improvises a dramatic coup. Ratcliffe proclaims the threat but the villain is slain by a strong right hand, revealing the dagger was a vision supplied by conscience. The moment earns the crowd’s reaction.
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Ratcliffe
Proposing Bets and Truths Spark a Domestic Quip
In a clipped exchange from the Philadelphia Press a man named Henpeck denies his wife asked him to marry her while Dadley taunts him. The retort reveals a terse domestic wager and blunt honesty in a humorous scene.
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Dadley
Henpeck
Wetness controls grindstone strength in tests
Tests show grindstone strength varies with moisture. Dry stones reach 146 to 186 pounds per square inch, while soaked stones fail under 80 to 116 psi after overnight soaking.
His Share and the Mockery of a Fine Situation
A dialogue notes a man’s “fine situation” under a wife’s allowance of about two dollars a week. The exchange mocks the notion of prosperity, highlighting gendered expectations and social judgments in a Catholic Standard and Times item.
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Standard and Times
Notable European Figures and U.S. Leaders in Brief
Count Fabri gains promotion to consul in Pittsburgh after serving as vice consul in San Francisco. John Leidy adds a full electric plant lighting his farm. Adrian Joline becomes Missouri Kansas and Texas president and authored The Diversions of a Book Lover. James Berry preaches at Bedworth Baptist church drawing coal miners. General Daniel H. Rucker, age ninety five, stands apart in retirement in Washington. King brothers of Bramham win army shooting prizes totaling over 5000 dollars. Colorado governor Henry A. Buchtel to stay in University Park near Denver. Oscar S. Straus and wife rent a premier Sixteenth Street Washington home. John Wesley Crockett possesses Davy Crockett’s gold watch and rifle. French sculptor M. d Epinay remains King Edward and Queen Alexandra’s favorite artist. Calvin Austin rises to president of Mallory Steamship line, joining its leadership at the helm of major U.S. steamship firms.
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Count Fabri
San Francisco
Italy
Pittsburg
John Leidy
Robinson
Kaw
Adrain H. Joline
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
James Berry
England
Bedworth
Warwickshire
Washington
Daniel H. Rucker
Phil Sheridan
Sherman
King
Bramham
Wilts
Thomas
John
James
Henry A. Buchtel
Colorado
University Park
University of Denver
Oscar S. Straus
Sixteenth Street
White House
America
John Wesley Crockett
Arkansas
Davy Crockett
Alamo
Philadelphia
King Eoward
Queen Alexandra
M. d’Epinay
United States
Calvin Austin
Mallory Steamship Line
English Etchings and Parlia mentary Act Patterns
The article notes nearly 6,000 women employed in British mines none underground. It recalls 570 acts in 1816 vs 13 in 1841. It mentions a Stockport salaries raise of 2.50 yearly for the draftsman. It observes boy and girl actors on London stages and widespread child roles. It cites 110 million pounds invested abroad in mortgages and annual drain of about 5.5 million pounds in gold. It records an all night Commons session consuming many beverages and eggs.
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Great Britain
Stockport
England
London
House of Commons
Editorial Flings and Speculations Across Papers
A collage of quips notes explorers finding unseen Alaska natives, ponderings on trillionaires and Dil Mans, a Shakespearean Irish claim, Hetty Green valuing time, and a remark about business tedium. Each item appears as a biting one-liner from various papers.
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Alaska
Washington Post
Markiman
Providence Journal
Shakespeare
Ireland
Bernard Shaw
Denver Republcan
Veater’s hydraulic jet six inch stream ruler exerts massive earth removal
A six inch water jet driven by a hydraulic motor hurls a 275 foot fall of water capable of moving rock weighing a ton or more to distances of fifty to one hundred feet. The jet’s velocity is described as terrible, able to kill a man at two hundred feet and strip tree bark at two hundred feet. The stream hollows banks and washes earth into sluices, forming caves and eroding large masses.
Bits From The Novelists Quote Montage
A collection of dramatic quotes on gossip women and men from Eliot Crawford Balance of Power and Sarah Grand. The lines critique character and courage with pointed wit and social commentary.
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Eliot
F. Marion Crawford
Sarah Grand
The Eye of a Child Reflection on innocent recognition
A reflection on a infant’s instinctive recognition of a friend, seen in a nurse’s arms or a carriage. The child’s wide eyes, smile, and laugh reveal a pure connection, prompting questions about the power and influence guiding early love and perception.
Carlyle and the Ax Tale of a Fearsome Schoolmaster
A joiner seen by Carlyle's schoolhouse heard cries for mercy as the master ruled with a stern scowl. The man rushed in and handed Carlyle his ax saying to avoid needless cruelty, a vivid anecdote of stern discipline and caution.
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Carlyle
Youth Seeks Folly to Test Warnings of Age
In London Lady a mother bans her daughter's social gaiety claiming to see the folly of such things. The daughter replies she too wants to witness the folly, illustrating the common youth attitude toward aging warnings.
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London
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