South Dakota News Notes and Subscriptions Update
The item lists subscription rates and deadlines for newspapers, notes changes of address, and urges early office correspondence. It reports on postal stamp cancellations, a mid winter editors meeting in Sioux Falls, growth of the creamery industry in South Dakota, and a public critique by Rev. Sam Jones of society women.
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South Dakota Press Association
Sioux Falls
Halladay
Yankton Press and
Dakotan
South Dakota
Sam Jones
Ohio politics and a county commissioner’s suicide note
The item lists names in Ohio and South Dakota politics, mentions a newspaper start in Pierre, and notes an auditor planning libel action against the Argus Leader. It also reports the New York Journal’s rebuke of Bryan and a warning about his nomination prospects.
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Sioux Falls
Mayhew
Argus-Leader
Pierre
The
New York Journal
East
Bryan
No business on earth desires to be fairer in its bestowal of favors
The Springheld Times explains editors seek news and appreciate submissions from readers. It urges locals to share items of interest to help the home paper publish complete coverage and avoid missing stories.
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Times
Brookings Agricultural College Sees Record Winter Term Enrollment
A Brookings based report notes the state agricultural college opened its winter term with 20 students enrolled, including many new, older farmers. The surge surpasses prior state college gains, prompting new classes and fuller labs, with facilities strained to accommodate growth.
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State Agricultural College
Brookinge
Heston
Brookings
Argus- Leader
Agricultural College
Silver certificates to replace small currency under plan
The Indianapolis commission favors retiring treasury and bank notes under ten dollars and silver certificates over ten dollars. They propose issuing one two and five dollar silver certificates to replace small notes, using treasury silver dollars for backing and keeping silver in active circulation. This would push silver into daily use and maintain parity with coins as population grows.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Indianapolis Commission
Congress
Treasury
Soldiers' Home in Hot Springs Praised by Commander Clark
General C G B Clark reports in general order No 6 that the Hot Springs soldiers' home is a well kept refuge with comfort and cheer. He notes a clean kitchen hospital care free of charge and a small sickness rate given the average age 63. Commandant Linn and staff welcomed him and the home is seen as a noble benevolence for veterans.
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Hot Springs
C. B. Clark
Sioux City
GC. B. Clark
South Dakota
Linn
Lion
Women’s health remedies and Grain-O product pitch
An appeal urges husbands to seek Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription to restore a wife’s health and combat internal female disorders. The ad promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children, touting grain-based nutrition and equal cost to coffee.
Teacher Meeting Program At Superintendent Office February Fifth
The program for the teachers meeting includes talks on cultivating habits of industry by Eila Kipp, class drill by Mary Coman, teacher influence on pupil character by Ellen Jackson, History of France epochs by Katie Gormley and Banch Turneaure, mental arithmetic discussion, and Spain Cuba and the United States by E T Moyer. Henry Hendrickson and L M Alice Saul sign as secretary and organizer.
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Eila Kipp
Mary Coman
Ellen Jackson
France
Katie Gormley
Banch Turneaure
Spain
Cuba
United States
E. T. Moyer
Henry Hendrickson
L. M
Alice Saul
Prognostications Shape Revolutions and Literary Anecdotes
A reflective passage traces how prognostications and forebodings accompany revolutions. It cites Lord Bacon, Bishop Williams, and Duedale, noting predictions before upheavals. It also recounts a Browning anecdote at the Atheneum Club, describing the poet’s humble, amiable persona and a contrast with Tennyson.
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Lord Bacon
Williams
England
Duedale
Browning
Atheneum Club
Robert Browning
Colonel Higgenson
Atlantic
London
Mr. Browning
Antipodes
Tennyson
Cerman
Shoestring Statistics Stir Debate On Laces
The Philadelphia Record cites a barber calculating lace waste from bowknots, estimating 600,000 city residents and 380,000,000 in the nation wear laced shoes. He notes three inches of each end could be saved, totaling vast potential sums and even pocket handkerchiefs for Africa. Witch hazel or bay rum?
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Philadelphia Record
United States
Africa
Early Nonsense Verses and Rare 1821 Volume
Notes and Queries surveys an obscure early verse collection tied to Harris cabinet prints. It notes a London 1821 book titled History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women with colored illustrations and questions if earlier examples exist, referencing an Old Woman of Ealing verse about a lottery prize.
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London
Harris & Son
St. Paul's Churchyard
Harris
Newberry
Ealing
What Help Was Carlyle Yet He Provides A Short Hint
Edmund Gosse critiques Carlyle as an unhelpful physician and prophet, praising only a resonant voice. He questions Carlyle's failure to offer a clear gospel despite denunciations and stinging rhetoric across vast contrasts between the infinite and the individual.
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Carlyle
Edmund Gosse
Had Them All and Birds on the Hat
A quirky quote from Fliegende Blatter contrasts longing for forest life with a city resident’s joke about nature on a hat. The exchange playful emphasis on irony and humor appears in a European periodical sketch.
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Arthur
Quirky Tales From Upcountry Writings
A doctor in a highland village finds no professional peers and learns locals rely on whisky for medicine and sheep care. A Buffalo shopper uses ornate wording to request elastic undergarments. An 19th century note predicts fewer than 80 million civilians would die in war this century.
Dr Rea Specializes in Publicized Cure Alls in Louisville
Dr Rea, president of the Southern Medica and Surgical Institute in Louisville Kentucky, claims a vast practice and rapid cures. He offers free diagnosis in five minutes and treatment for a wide range of diseases and ailments in both sexes with confidential private care.
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Rea
Southern Medica and Surgical Institute
Louisville
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