Mitchell News and Local Notices Stagger Through Week
Local items report visits of Mra F B Erie and Matt Brewer in Letsher, Dr O S Bugbee in town at Gale's drug store, ice delivery for S T Greene's creamery, and Walrath Healey warehouse work. Notes include Frank Craft the Singer man impersonating a spear fisher, a 47th birthday for Paul Graff, W C T U division plans, a baby arrival in Prosper township, and an upcoming February 1 sale near Mitchell with auctioneer Phil Tobin.
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Mra. F. B. Erie
Parker
Matt Brewer
Milwaukee Road
Letsher
O.S. Bugbee
Gale
Jon. Garmony
S. T. Greene
Kif
D. V. Moore
Valley City
N. D
Grank Forks
Lake Pelican
Mr. Craft
Mr. Graff
Als
La Grippe Treated. Mrs Jones Praises Chamberlains Remedy
Mrs Jas A Jones publisher of the Leader Mexia Texas reports recovering quickly from a second la grippe attack after using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. She notes being in bed ten days once and only two days the second time and credits the remedy with a swift recovery. The ad also advertises Ferry seeds and a seed annual from Detroit Michigan.
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la Grippe
Jas. A. Jones
the Leader
Mexia
Texas
Chamberlain
L. O. Gale’s
Bright Eyed Child Surfaces In Chicago News
A visitor speaks to 5 year old Tommy in a juvenile Chicago News pickup. The child explains his mother puts him to bed at 8 nightly. The exchange ends with a practical quip about mending clothes.
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Chicago News
Tommy
Comparing Notes on Mayflower and Wheat
A Chicago visiting woman recalls her family carried by the Mayflower while a curious man asks about their lineage. She notes their forebears did not run a florist business but survived through wheat.
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Chicago
Washington Star
Remarkable Indian Child Apprentices Stir Traveler Reports
A recent traveler notes extraordinary precocity among Indian children, many becoming skilled workers at an age when others learn the alphabet. The editor wryly comments that tears signal a broken nose more often than a broken heart.
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India
Detroit Journal
Odorless gas machines pass strict inspection amid rising quality rules
J A Brown received a permit after an acetylene expert found nineteen points in his machine perfectly satisfactory. The examiner tests all gas machines and enforces stricter standards as cheap, poorly built units flood the market. The Mitchell Plumbing Co will manufacture Brown’s plan, hailed as a superior odorless model, with high expected sales amid rapid lighting growth. Pneumonia is noted as a risk preventable by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, advertised as warranted and sold at Li. O. Gale's Drug Store.
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J. A. Brown
Brown
Chicago
Mitchell Plumbing Co
Li. O. Gale
Side Tracked Comedy at Grand Opera House
Jule Walters presents Side Tracked at the Grand Opera House on Tuesday evening with Horatio the tramp and cast. The play is billed as highly successful on the road and features high class special ties with expected fungalore. Seats go on sale Friday at Gale's starting 9 o'clock.
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Grand Opera House
Jule Walters
Walters
Horatio
Tramp
Gale
Bids Sought for Artesian Well at Poor Farm in 1899
Officials invite bids by noon January 28 1899 for an artesian well at the poor farm with specifications available at the auditor's office. Also noted are a patent medicine claim for Cascarets and a cautionary tale excerpt about swan boat rides and a dentist's instrument count and a note on eggs preserving by mud.
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Poor Farm
L. W. Champlin, Co
A Famous Head Master Of Keate At Eton
The Londor Spectator recalls Keate the famed Eton head master noted for a fiery temper and belief in birch discipline. He wore a Napoleonic costume mixed with widow’s attire and reportedly warned pure in heart while threatening flogging. Yet he is praised as generous and noble with indomitable courage.
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Keate
Eton
Kinglake
Napoleon
Londor
Hope of a Disturbance in Quiet Life
A contemplative man, aged eighty, praised quiet reading and repose yet faced inner restlessness. In a cheerful apartment he discusses life’s troubles easing, only to be warned of a new disturbance as he contemplates marriage, the friend suggesting further upheaval ahead.
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Haven
New York Commercial Advertiser
The Cloister and the Hearth in Charles Reade’s Letters
A London Academy review notes Reade’s intense effort on The Cloister and the Hearth, originally titled A Good Fight. It highlights the evolving cast including Denys, a Burgundian crossbowman, and quotes his bold resolve while confessing doubt about ultimate success.
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Charles Reade
Gerard
France
Germany
Denys
London Academy
Hair Powder and Sugar Ethics in Historical Notes
Notes and Queries discusses hair powder falling out of fashion due to flour price, labeling it nearly criminal for the rich to waste flour. It notes voluntary groups abstaining from hair powder and abolitionists boycotting sugar produced with slave labor.
Beethoven Violin or Piano Concerto: A Troublesome Label
The excerpt notes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto also labeled For the Violin or Piano, highlighting the era’s performer shortage. It cites Musical Courier on the title page and wryly parallels to a joke about a Westward son and weeds, offering a glimpse of period humor and musical assessment.
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Beethoven
Judge promises 80 days in the workhouse in man’s case
An Indianapolis Journal excerpt records a judge stating an 80 day workhouse term and considering clemency. The convicted man responds with thanks, while the judge cautions that no clemency should create familiarity with punishment.
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Jong
Indianapolis Journal
Men of Genius and the Faults of Nobility
A Pearson's Weekly piece argues that wealth and titles corrupt and that true genius defies normal standards. It contrasts famed names with the idea that nobility is blood, not worth, and includes a vignette of Indian street performers showing illusion and manipulation.
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Victor Hugo
Shakespeare
Bacon
Macaulay
Wellington
Nelson
Gibbon
Swift
Voltaire
Carlyle
Bonaparte
Goldsmith
Spencer
Milton
Cromwell
Disraeli
Paasy in a Mirror Maze
A cat wanders the Crystal Maze and confronts her reflections in a maze of mirrors. She clashes with other abused cats and shrieks in defiance before fleeing through the maze exiting into a street. The episode ends with a badly rattled cat disappearing into an adjacent house.
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Paasy
Jackeorville Times-Union
Railroad Methods Described for Cost and Mileage Records
The motive power department keeps double entry accounts for each locomotive and car to show maintenance costs, miles traveled, and tonnage hauled. Similar records exist for freight and passenger cars, with the Pullman company able to cite exact earnings, original cost, and maintenance expenses each morning.
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Motive Power
Pullman Company
Chicago
Enjoyable at a Distance In Praise of a Clever Child
A humorous Chicago Post remark praises a child who, though insufferable to sit near, offers smart lines that amuse readers. The exchange contrasts a pleasant evening with the boy’s sharp wit, highlighting how audience reactions shift between delight and exasperation.
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Chicago Post
Clock Bossed Town Meeting and Back Yard Cemetery Quip
A Dickensian scene shows Gradgrind guarding a clock and fining workers for time. Foreman explains the clock was not wound. A North Lincolnshire council debate on consecrating a new cemetery section yields a quip about a back yard and it wore well.
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London
North
Lincolnshire
Hiding Places In Wartimes Revealed In Virginia Home
In a Virginia house described by Gore in St Nicholas, a hidden contrivance for wartime supply storage kept food and silverware out of sight. A large wooden box with a fake bottom held gear and fuel, guarded by a removable front board, fooling soldiers who might raid the kitchen for provisions.
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EE Gore
St Nicholas
Virginia
Marandere
Dream of firing a gun jolts boy from bed in tale
A Forest and Stream excerpt recalls a boy and his brother who sleep with a flintlock gun of old days. The narrator notes dreams of not being able to shoot, while his brother recounts a dream in which firing the gun launches him from bed, provoking a startled father.
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New Hampshire
Father
Bill
The Ambition to Be Literary and the Reading Club
Quotations from Mary R. Baldwin warn that a shallow urge to be literary can hinder achievement and tempt superficial women to imitate fashion. The reading club, while generally beneficial, may mislead when used as a delusion and source of plagiarism.
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Mary R. Baldwin
Woman’s Home Companion
Constant Squeezing Exchange Dialogue
A comic exchange between Miss Fusson and her fiancé centers on marital affection. The fiancé jokes that marriage will not curb squeezing and guarantees plenty of affection even on seven dollars a week.
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Algernon
Miss Fussonfeather
True Friendship. A humorous literary exchange in Chicago News
An author asks for praise for a new book and a critic responds that his review was not printed. The critic explains their friendship prevented candor, noting no notice appeared in the column. The exchange highlights subtleties of newspaper reviews and personal loyalties.
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Chicago News
Insolvency of Brother MacLellan Shocks Parishioners
In a Mexican Herald remark the curate expresses sorrow over Brother MacLellan’s insolvency forcing the closing of his business. A parishioner quips it is another case of The Light That Failed as the scene ends at the parsonage. A Kansas City Journal note recalls a coroner’s verdict from Wisworth county about a vigilante action leading to a thief's death.
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A. Craft
Watertown
Mitchell Fire Department
John Colvin
Pierre
Colvin
Davison County
J. L. Lockhart
Mr. Lockhart
Lockhart
Brother MacLellan
Mexican Herald
Wisworth County
Kansas City Journal
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Walrath & Healey
Mia
Bidwell
Més
Alice Bayens
Mitchell
Mitchell W.C. T. U
Jake French
Prosper Township
J. W. Caffee
Huron
City
University Atudente
Emery, S. D
August Snyder
J. W. Mason
Chas. Mason
Phil Tobin
Migs Josie Lowen
Montpelier
Ohio
S.S.S
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
D. M. Ferry & Co
Detroit
Mich
Ferry
Roll of Honor
Perry Township
Etta Smith
Maggie Waugh
Julian Dondelinger
Anna C. Althen
Wr. Brown
Chicago Board of Underwriters
Ely
Oscar Ostrom
Warren Ave
A. C. Clarke
Shawmut Ave
Boston
Mass
Ely Brothers
Warren St
N. Y
New England
Marjorie
Goffin
Tom
Folger
Boston Transcript
Genius
Pearson’s Weekly
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