My Lesson in a Desolate Night Bird Song Amid Storm
A dark night scene from Wessington South Dakota notes a stormy sky and a bird’s clear song as light breaks. Included are letters praising photographic work by L B Stair and a cordial message from Arthur Inkersley of San Francisco dated January 1901. Also referenced is Cole’s Carbolic Salve packaging and its wartime souvenir value.
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Arthur Inkersley
Cal. Cricket Association
San Francisco
Cal
Stair
L. BE. Stair
Mitchell
S. D
Local notices from McLeod and Badger with society items
Jan reports show McLeod Smith and Co building a new well drilling firm while Willie White is under the weather. Local trips, literary society meetings, plays and weather notes populate the page with townspeople Andrew Hanson and Miss Roga Sprague among those pictured.
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Victor
B. P. Nicholson
Literary Society
Andrew Hanson
George Olson
Roga Sprague
Mt. Vernon
Oscar
Nicholson
Mitchell
School money apportioned and district updates across towns
The column notes $1 061 70 apportioned for December 31 1900 warrants for school boards and county offices. It highlights promotions resignations transfers among Miss Weeks Warne Saul and others, district institutes and teaching changes, plus local town notes from Plano Vernon and Lierenen including events, visits, and infrastructure updates.
Local notes from Baker January events and remarks
Jan 16. Mr Jurgensen delays Chicago trip awaiting Dr Smiley from Mr Vernon. Mrs Nic Holson hosts a Jan 8 dancing party for about seventy guests including Plankinton and Mt. Vernon guests, in honor of Mr and Mrs Nicholson. Sim Brown’s team frightened by a dog en route to Mt Vernon with minor buggy damage. Community questions sub prices and paper stoppage rights. Pocketbook found near Ed Moyer’s on the Mitchell road. owner unknown. Basket social at Voss school. George Johnson cages a bird and claims a good match. Jas Philips to farm Geo Keeler place this season.
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Plankinton
Mt. Vernon
Sim Brown
Sim
Kerating
Ed Moyer
Mitchell
Voss School House
Johnson
George
Radical London newspaper tale and a wordplay exchange
An editor describes a radical London newspaper that failed after alienating supporters and readers. The piece recounts how denunciations of social democracy and atheism led to dwindling subscriptions until the paper ceased. The page also features a humorous wordplay exchange about long English words and their letter spans.
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London
New York Commercial Advertiser
Behavioral clash over feathering ears sparks boarding hallway gossip
In amused chatter Miss Hankypank criticizes Clara Denger for her strict kindness toward birds and a rumor about Harry Singleshell. The exchange reveals schoolyard tensions as peers weigh eccentric proprieties against social norms.
Not a Freak Larry The Doctor Sit Oi Nade Glasses
A New York World excerpt shows a comic exchange about eyeglasses. The optician asks if Larry wants nose glasses. Larry says no, he needs eye glasses because he cannot see through his nose.
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Larry
Optician
New York World
Bridal Presents as Revenge in Unlikely Exchange
A dramatic tale notes a rival’s spiteful prank involving a lamp that consumes a half gallon of coal oil each night. The exchange reveals tensions and a humorous twist in a bridal context.
Fragmented verse lines from a cryptic early text
A garbled OCR fragment presents scattered phrases about thoroughbreds, dawns, functionaries, and Nell, with no clear article context or complete facts to summarize.
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Nell
Headless Officer Leads Cuirassiers at Worth Battlefield
A headless Prussian cuirassier officer spurs his regiment into action, sitting upright in the saddle after being decapitated by a cannon ball. The sight terrifies the Prussians but they rally to beat back the French in the Franco Prussian War battle of Worth.
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Draeee
Battle of
Worth
Cincinnati Enquirer
Quip Between Mrs Shears and Mr Shears Cited
A Boston Transcript exchange mocks weather talk with a jab about women. The dialogue contrasts wind and rain with a sharp remark about staying on topic.
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Mrs. Shears
Mr. Shears
Boston Transcript
Vermilion ore and the mercury mines in California
The article explains cinnabar as the raw ore for vermilion pigment and describes the roasting process to extract mercury. It notes Indian vermilion use led to the California mercury discoveries, mentions native mercury occasionally found, and warns miners face mercury poisoning with emphasis on cleanliness and a lemonade antidote.
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California
Saturday Evening Post
Lighter Moments and a Stock Exchange Record
In a note from Lighter Moments Bishop Walsham How recalls a lady praising a preacher as saint in the pulpit and martyr in the pew. A joke about Mr Meekton apologizing for Henrietta's cooking ends with coffee woes. New York Stock Exchange records show up to 2,150,000 shares traded, a historic daily total.
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Palpit
Vreow
Walsham How
Magee
Mr. Meekton
Henrietta
Washington Star Steel
New York
Dun
le Stock Exchange
Une Exchange
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Dr. Pierce
Lulu Hunter
Allenton
St. Louis Co
PDE
Pierce
Wessington
Mrs. Wells Ferritin
Cole
J. H. Ferria
Prescription
A. B. Hager
Room
Omaha
C. B. Wilt
St. P
Assenger
Westassenger
Nor
Sou
North
Eas
East
South
North Fraight
West
J. Taylor
Ager
M. Nm. m
R. D. Prescott
Main St
Mitchell,s D
Sapolio
Blendon
Mr.Weed
Alcester, S.D
O. W. Coursey
Ccounty Auditor’s
Matilda Weeks
Badger Township
East Side
Jessie Warne
Sioux City
Mies
Mamie Saul
District Institute
Laura Holmes
Misa Vida Shane
Hinan
Prosper Township
S.C. Cathout
PLANO
Mrsa. Davie
Alpena
W. B. Rowley
S. R. Lang
Royal Eastman
Mr. Shultz
S.P. Jewett
M. E
Marie Enebo
Canton
John Enebo
South Elliott
Lierenen
John Leamy
Wisconsin
Mary Coman
Maulkton
Halvor Kettleson
Caiey Coman
Yankton
Fred Norman
Bob Miltenberger
Hathway
Davison
Rob
Tom
Scribner’s
Republican Office
Vermilyea
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