Grand Parade and Corn Palace Festivities Listed
The celebration includes a grand parade and free dance at Corn Palace with a sunrise national salute. Contests from bicycle handicap to wheelbarrow races and a Fat Man race are scheduled with prizes, plus oration by Judge Frank B. Smith and reading of the Declaration of Independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof
Nicolinus
Calithumpians
Corn Palace
Frank B. Smith
F. A. Bidwell
Main Street
Sion
Afternoon Races at Fair Grounds and Animal Events
Afternoon races begin at 1 pm with a 3 minute class trotters or pacers purse $50. The Farmer's Race for horses never raced before Jan 1 1897 has no entrance fee and purses $10 with split prizes. Bicycle and chariot events offer prizes including a camera, bicycle parts, and a fine oak furniture piece, with purses up to 20 dollars for the chariot race and various awards for the bicycle races.
Racing Event Conditions and Entry Rules
Details specify that trotter or pacer races require three-fourths of a mile with best three in five. Fees are 16 percent for certain classes with minimum entrants. Prize splits are 50 25 15 10 percent except farmer’s race. Entries to J. K. Smith. bicycle races to H. P. Beckwith by 12 m noon July 3 1897. Riders in handicap must declare prior best time and distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. K. Smith
H. P. Beckwith
Mitchell Fourth of July Celebration Promises Exciting Events
A large-scale event in Mitchell on Saturday July 3 offers attractive sports and amusements for all. The day features a national holiday celebration with various activities. An exciting event arrives at 9 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Mitchell Fourth of July Parade Plans Detailed
The notice describes a large Mitchell Fourth of July celebration with a 200 bicycle parade, a vendor pageant, and a three-band procession. It lists merchants taking part in grand parade displays and names township committee leaders for Davison and Hanson counties coordinating the townships’ marches along Maine Street at 10 o’clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Merchante
Calithumpians
Nicolinus
Liberty Car
Old Soldiers
Fire
Davison County
Hanson County
Maine Street
Brendon
Art Smith
Jason Powell
Neil Gordonier
Badger
Will Miner
John Beddoes
Joe Emmons
Perry
Jno
Gillfillan
Tad Bates
al. Hillman
Beulah
Chas. Mason
Fred Shhraeder
Henry O'Donnell
Mr. Vernon
George Dougherty
George Arland
John Harader
Union
Jesse Welch
Will Wagner
Emery Owens
Lisbon
Andy Wright
Vane Greene
Gil, Stevens
Prosper
Henry Hendrickson
Chas
Boreson
Frank Carleon
Rome
Levi Brown
Fred Tobey
Jas
Grady
Tobin
Oscar Warfield
H. B. Anderson
S. M. Daniels
Baker
Char, Hedden
Vane Stent
John Bourette
Wm. Patterson
S. P. Jewett
A. H. Bayley
Hanson
John R. White
Henry Shultz
Oscar Cassem
Rosedale
Wm. Miller
C. J. Miltimore
Peter Wendilbor
Formation of the Parade for the Fourth of July
The parade divisions form at Main Street First Street for the first division and at East Railroad Street and West Railroad Street for the second and third divisions. The line proceeds north on Main to Sixth, back to Railroad, by order of the committee. Bicycle riders from Mitchell and nearby towns are urged to join at 9:30 at the band room with decorated wheels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalle
Main Street
First Street
East Railroad Street
West Railroad Street
Salvation Army
Calithumpians
Sixth
Railroad Street
Mitchell
Band Yoom
East First Street
The Clintonia in California by Lillian H. Shuey
A poem extols the tall clintonia amid redwoods in California. The speaker likens its red torches to royal lilies, contrasts winter gloom with blooming brightness, and places the flower as a divine altar candle of the continent. Thoreau is invoked as a priest guiding readers to templelike wonders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Reau
Maine
Thoreau
Lillian H. Shuey
Overland Monthly
Pockets and Pouches Across Centuries and Cultures
A lively survey traces pockets from Japanese cuffed sleeves to medieval girdles and breeches, noting pouches with reliquaries and embroidery. It passages through waistcoat pockets, then shifts to anecdotes on a clever town figure exposing a sugar scam, a governor’s campaign ride, and commentary on Strauss waltzes and enthusiastic obsessions.
Land Loans and Farm Lands Offered in Champeny Block
Real estate loan options posted by land attorney and insurer A. B. Hager. Loans on choice property for terms from one to two years. Listings include farm lands for sale in Champeny Block with options for farm or city property and largest in the state.
Dr Hobbs Sparague Kidney Pills praised as cure all
Hobbs supporters claim rapid relief from kidney trouble after free samples of Dr Hobbs Sparague Kidney Pills. They say many in Mitchell recovered quickly and expect a world wide benefit. The ad links Brights disease rheumatism and other ailments to kidney issues and touts asparagus based formula as a universal remedy. Pills cost cents a box six for 2.50 and are offered for sale locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Hobbs Sparagua
Dr. Hobbs
Mitchell
Hobbs Sparagus
Bright
Hobbs Sparague
Hobbs
Dr. Hobbs Sparagus
Prove Ever
No Shouting Allowed in New York Livery Stables
A New York livery stable enforces quiet rules for nervous horses. Only rich owners keep horses here and no man may shout or speak loudly near the animals. Even breathing sharply or loud speech unsettles horses perceived as 60 percent blood and prone to nerves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert G. Porter
Indiana
Morgan County
New York Tribune
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lusic
Bicycle Corps
G. A. R. Veterans
South Dakota
Mitchell Fire Department
Fair Grounds
Clintonia
Europe
Henry VIII
George III
England
New York Post
Harper’s Round Table
Schiller
Tschaikowsky
Chopin
Strauss
Johann Strauss
Brahms
Mme
Richard Wagner
Wagner
Liszt
Franz
Moskowski
Bach
Baireuth
Tausig
Henry B. Fink
Tom Blumber
Detroit Free Press
Brooklyn
New York Times
A. B. Hager
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