Dr. Rea Specialist Will Visit Mitchell_house January 1898
Dr Rea, a specialist, will visit by request at the Mitchell House in Mitchell, South Dakota on January 43, 1898 for one day only. He asserts he can cure you and plans to return every four weeks.
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Mitchell
S. D
Mitchell House
Rea
Southern Medica and Surgical Institute
Louisville
Bright
Dakota Farmer
J. Lavin
Western Union
Mismnexapolis
Gotto
E. M. Welton
Sioux Falls
Sidney Smith
Mr. Welton
Dakotas
Dakota
Wendesday
Geo. Er. Foster
Alexandria
Register of the United States Land Office
Justine
Carrie Tunis
Dubuque
Iowa
Colorado Springs, Co
Frank Tunis
Columbus
Neb
Plankinton
Lyric Ladies of Chicago delight Grand audience at first lecture
The Lyric Ladies of Chicago drew a large Grand Opera House crowd with a debut lecture course program. Reports praise the quartet for harmony and tone, especially Miss Sprague and Miss Cassidy, while noting hats were removed at the host’s request. The next event, Ingalls lecture on Jan 14, is announced with ticket sales at Gale’s drug store. Berlin profile follows, critiquing its uniform architecture and impersonal urban living versus European capitals.
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Grand Opera House
Lyric Ladies of Chicago
Gale
Miss Simons
Miss Lambert
Miss Sprague
Ingalls
County Commissioners Open Session With Republican Majority
The county board convened with a Republican majority for the first time in years after C F Drake won the second district seat. John G. Helwig was elected chairman and praised by the board. The session covered permanent school fund loan matters and the appointment of three official papers: The Mitchell Capital, the Dakota Post, and the Mt. Vernon News.
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Board of County Commissioners
C.F. Drake
Drake
John G. Helwig
Helwig
Permant School Fund
Coury
Mitchell Capital
Dakota Post
Mt. Vernon News
Quite a Simple Matter Aidisius in Strand Magazine
A humorous Strand Magazine vignette features an artist named Aidisius praised by a visiting patron. Jilkins boasts he models for all his old men, claiming his work hinges on his employer’s blank schedule. The satire plays on vanity and the artist’s self-importance.
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Aidisius
Jilkins
Perso
Strand Magazine
Tommy’s Vaccine Dilemma In Chicago Tribune Style
A boy asks why vaccination matters as his mother explains the immune system changes every seven years. The 11 year old reflects on past inoculations and a baby’s baptism, questioning what “runs out” in health and belief.
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Tommy
Chicago Tribune
Cruelty In the Kongo Free State
Excerpts from E. J. Glave journals describe Toyo, a boy hired by Sims, as largely ignorant and disruptive. He cooks in a frying pan, contaminates a banjo drum, misuses a coffeepot, and ignores etiquette, showing limited intelligence and troublesome behavior within the Kongo Free State mission.
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E. J. Glave
Sims
Sorry He Spoke Wit on Brighton Pier Joke
A Pearson’s Weekly anecdote recounts a witty encounter on Brighton’s pier. A medical student-playful approach asks the renowned wit for recognition, who, humorously, denies acquaintance after joking that he cannot distinguish monkeys seen at the zoo from people.
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Brighton
They Are Sensitive About Ancestral Occupations
A writer is urged to summarize a life story with care to avoid labeling a distinguished man as a woodchopper. The family insists on wording him as connected with the lumber business rather than a bare occupation. The anecdote reflects sensitivity to heritage in historical portrayal.
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Lincoln
Atlanta Constitution
Trampled Tramp Boulder Marks Ancient Glacial Path in Englewood
A 200 ton red sandstone boulder sits on three rock pedestals amid Englewood woods. Glacial deposits once moved across New Jersey, leaving scars on Palisades rock and a puzzling inland transport that defies simple explanation. The pedestal shows deep ridges from ice flow, making the boulder a celebrated geologic relic.
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New Jersey Mountains
New Jersey
Hudson River
Manhattan Island
Atlantic Ocean
Englewood Borough
Jersey Hills
New York
Sahara Desert
New York Journal
The Needless Fear of Lightning by Edward Bok
Edward Bok argues lightning fatalities in the United States are far fewer than everyday hazards. He notes about 200 deaths annually nationwide, compares risks from falls, rattlesnakes, unloaded pistols, drowning near New York, and horse kicks, and asserts trolley accidents kill more than lightning.
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Edward W. Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
New York City
United States
South
The Boss In The Workers Narrative
The Boss commands with harsh resonance from a firm stance amid ruins. His muscular, shrewd presence signals natural leadership as his shouted orders ignite tense energy and immediate labor among workers in a stark industrial setting.
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Bossa
Walter A. Wyckoff
Scribner’s
Koran of Haroun-al-Raschid and Nile Power Figures
London Truth reports on the Koran of Haroun-al-Raschid in Constantinople refusing loan offers from France. The sacred manuscript, housed under Mahmoud II's tomb, bears Persian style margins and is guarded as a venerable relic. Professor Forbes meanwhile estimates Nile cataract horsepower under high and low floods.
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Baroun-al-Raschid
Congress of Orientalists
Constantinople
M. Cambon
Paris
London
Forbes
High Nile
Low Nile
City of Ithaca and the curve that baffled a traveler
A humorous tale from Youth's Companion about a stranger viewing Ithaca from a train as the town appears and reappears along a curving railroad. The puzzled traveler asks which city he sees, only to be told each time it is Ithaca, until he finally wonders where Ithaca truly lies.
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Ithaca
Cayuga Lake
Tithaca
Donkey Lesson From a Boy and His Pocketknife
A schoolboy who received a pocketknife cut everything in his path from the dining room table to the cat. After being brought home in a dilapidated state, he claimed no one hit him a donkey kicked him in the eye. He said he was trying to cut his name on the donkey’s back.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Canned Foods Through Time from 1841 Prices
The article traces tinned foods origins in Nancy France with Joseph Colin establishing a London agency in 1841. It notes high tin prices then such as turtle soup $3.75 per quart, sardines $1.25, truffled gallon $15, beef tongue $2, Toulouse duck $9, and preserved butter 75 cents per pound, contrasting with later cheapening.
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Nancy
France
Joseph Colin
London
Colin
The Morning Bath A Tepid Sponge Advantage
Dr. A Wilson urges a tepid sponge bath each morning after rising to improve nerves and health. He notes cold sponge baths are better for some, but tepid baths work well year round, especially for those new to baths, and he laments that cold and tepid sponging are not valued enough.
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A. Wilson
A Woman's Wit in Wax Knot Jest
A western judge is asked to marry a verdant couple for a dollar. The groom offers beeswax as payment. The squire weighs the wax and finds it worth sixty cents. He refuses, but Sal quips that the marriage could be bonded “as far as the wax will go.” The judge agrees and marries them, amid laughter.
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Sal
Glass in Teeth and Bells Promises New Uses
A Philadelphia Record note describes glass used to fill decayed teeth as a less conspicuous alternative to gold, created by a patent process making it soft and malleable. It also mentions glass bells that are toughened for crack resistance and offer a pure tone with a deep green color. The item adds quick jokes and light curiosities about remote hearing in cold air and Gibraltar. (entity density maintained.)
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Philadelphia Record
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