Mitchell Republican State Convention Call 1898
Publican Electors of the State of South Dakota invite delegates to a Republican state convention in Mitchell S D on July 24 1898 at 12 o clock for nominating candidates for governor lieutenant secretary of state treasurer superintendent of schools and public lands railroad commissioners and other business Eligible counties receive delegates at large and one for every seventy four votes cast for Hon A O Rings governor candidate in 1806 as set by the county entitlements
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South Dakota
Itchell
S. D
St. A
A. O. Ringspiican
Farewell reception honors rector Durant in city church
A farewell reception was held Wednesday at the home of Mr and Mrs A E for Durant rector of St church. Guests enjoyed luncheon and musical entertainment by Nichole ckwith on mandolin and guitar. Durant plans to study in the east then will oversee charges in the circuit, with temporary base at Flan and visits to Mitchell areas.
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Durant
Fis
A. E
Rank Durant
St. Church
Friends Church
Araud
Flan
Mitchell
St. Mary’s
May Hunt
Katharine
Belle Koch
Austin
Mion
J. H. Babcock
Minneapolis
Edwinh Dean
Fairbank
Iowa
Dean
Todd Windle
Spooner & Nordakur
Sioux City
H. Jay Cook
Elinor
Daniel Thompson
Chicago
South Bend
Local News Roundup from Mitchell and Vicinity
Prof. Geo Grace returns from Duncan to stay through Sept 1 while D W Burright visits Eldora on business. Numerous residents travel to Milbank, Chicago, or Minneapolis for visits or work. A juvenile band concert draws a large crowd as Richard Fools, now a California publisher, is remembered. The town polishes the electric light project with brickwork advancing and a new telephone line planned within 30 days. Harvest hands flood north on the train, filling town restaurants as they depart for North Dakota.
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Geo. H. Grace
Duncan
D. W. Burright
Eldora
Ole Kjelmyr
Milbank
Gottlieb Scheurenbrand
Olive Dodge
Lewis B. Friars
Mitchell
Frank Durant
Richard Fools
California
Mother Lode
Messrs
Scollard Bros
Omaha
Dallas
Texas
T. J. Hyman
Chicago
Hyman
Terre Haute & Evansville Railroad
Eunice Thompson
School Board of
Tyndall
Thomson
Lbis County
Wmn. Abbott
Sanborn County
Woonsocket
Cook
Geo. E. Logan
Bon Homme County
J. C. Elve
Wmn. Herbert
Windle
Grotewohl
Duffie
Ime
Chamberlain
North Dakota
Kansas
Indian Territory
Weather of a Week Range of Temperature Observed
Government local station reports weekly temperature range and average readings across days. Data show highs and lows with daily conditions, highlighting notable extremes and shifts in atmospheric patterns for the period observed.
Brave acta on Jubilee day at Lime Point fort
On Jubilee day honoring California gold discovery of 1849 a Battery I unit at Lime Point near San Francisco faced a live shell mishap. A 50 pound powder charge failed to ignite but caught fire. Private John M. Jones leaped in, rolled the bag in mud and damp earth with his bare hands saving seven men. The tale recalls similar brave acts in wars, including a captain who hurled a burning shell away and a Royal Navy captain who saved a battery by tossing an ignited shell over the rampart.
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California
Battery I
Lime Point Fort
San Francisco
John M. Jones
Peel
Royal Navy
Robert Peel
Sevastopol
Why They Wore Armor and the Button Habit
London Answers notes a humorous medieval habit where armor or chain shirts replaced shirts with buttons. The piece argues armor existed to avoid button loss, not for combat, and highlights how metal fastenings stayed intact after laundry, avoiding accusations of garment negligence in unlikely accidents.
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London
Soyer’s Dublin famine soup tale in Stokes biography
In William Stokes’s life, his son recalls Soyer visiting Dublin during the famine to teach soup making. A starving beggar questions the free soup, saying it is not soup but boiled water reduced to strength. The anecdote ties to Hogarth’s Calais troops caricature.
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William Stokes
London
Soyer
Dublin
Stokes
Hogarth
Calais
No Chance to Get Old and Food Virtues Mentioned
Dialogue excerpts discuss value of old china and rarity, with Mrs Wicks questioning why old china is valuable and Mrs Ricks explaining rarity based on servant experience. The text cites a medical authority praising herring for muscles elasticity body strength and brain vigor, noting it is not flesh forming.
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Mrs. Wicks
Mrs. Ricks
Captain Kidd as a pirate without honor in Stockton tale
The text portrays Captain Kidd as utterly dishonorable, dishonest toward sailors and natives, deceiving men, plundering with a black flag, yet remaining emblematic of piracy in American lore. It notes that after execution, tales linger of pirate visits and buried treasure to explain his enduring legend.
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Kidd
Rascal
West India Islands
Captain Kidd
Frank R. Stockton
Century
Rare Old Dishes of the Arab Diets Long Ago
An erudite Egyptian notes in The Revue des Revues on ancient Arab eating habits. They prized dog meat and cat meat, and fried grasshoppers and scorpions as delicacies. Arabs drank and ate horseflesh from draft horses, hunted black snakes seasonally, and enjoyed mollusks and insects.
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Revue Des Revues
Al-Djahey
Bassarah
Roobah
Why He Didn't Finish. Fred Buskirk's Portsmouth Bias
A Cincinnati Enquirer quotation relates Fred Buskirk from Portsmouth Ohio recounting his pride in his hometown. He recalls traveling the Chesapeake and Ohio line and a fellow passenger who bluntly admitted visiting Portsmouth only briefly. The anecdote contrasts local affection with a traveler's curt remark.
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Fred Buskirk
Portsmouth
Fred
Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio Road
Cincinnati Enquirer
Wanted, light-weight man to drive horses and serve family
An advertisement seeks a compliant man for family service and horse driving. The role requires godly conduct, attendance at table prayers, Bible reading, rising at seven, obedience to masters, and skills in dressing hair, singing psalms, and cribbage. Wages are 16 guineas per year.
Hospital For Trees On The Seine In Paris
A Chicago News snippet notes a fanciful idea of a hospital for sick trees along the Seine in Paris where trees near boulevards are treated. It also describes the ur heen or Chinese violin, likening it to a hammer with a handle, having two strings and bow played. It ends with a wry remark that a magistrate is the only honor among thieves.
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Seine
Paris
Chicago News
Americanized Emigrant and the Pull of Success
A Paris Review Bleue essay notes that successful European emigrants quickly become American, while failures remain European. It describes Chicago as a melting pot with French Swedes Germans Slavs Italians in separate enclaves. Over one generation Europe loses influence as emigrants absorb American ideas and youth is inoculated with American possessions.
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Paris Revue Bleue
Curious Italian Cigars Describe A Novel Narrow Smoke
A New York Sun report details a curious Italian cigar seen in the city’s Italian quarter. The cigar measures about 744 inches in length and is slender, with a straw mouthpiece and a broom splint used during construction. When smoked, the splint is withdrawn to allow a free draw, and the straw end keeps the opening. These cigars, made of strong dark tobacco, sell at retail for a cent each.
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New York Sun
Commerce in the Philippines in the Eighteenth Century
Isaac M. Elliott notes in Scribner's that Philippine commerce exceeds 50 million dollars yearly with sugar tobacco and hemp as main exports. Manila cigars and hemp production are vast, a firm producing 40 million cigarettes annually. Imports from the United States and European nations are heavy, with local steamers handling coastwise trade for Manila and other towns.
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Philippines
Islands
Manila
United States
England
Germany
France
Isaac M. Elliott
Scribner’s
An Effective Pill Box Story of Dr Goldsmith
A poor woman seeking help for her ailing husband writes to Dr Goldsmith famed for The Deserted Village. The physician visits, promises aid, and a servant delivers a box containing 10 guineas with instructions to use as needed, urging patience and good heart.
Teaching the Parrot
Owners of parrots are advised to teach in the evening in a dark room with the cage covered. The teacher should enunciate slowly and clearly and persistently. Indian natives believe a minor tongue operation helps the bird speak more easily.
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India
Road Restrictions In Baden Declared By Authority
The Grand Duchy of Baden bans all mechanical vehicles from roads until drivers submit a declaration to central authorities. After a lengthy investigation, permission is granted to operate on a preselected road, with drivers then bound by numerous restrictions.
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Baden
Grand Duchy of Baden
Dreadful Talker Returns Home Forgetful of Others
A wry line from the Chicago Record notes a self critical speaker who recalls only his own remarks after returning home, leaving conversations with no memory of others. The brief quip underscores a humorous self awareness about social conversation.
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Chicago
Tea consumption in UK matches global total usage
The United Kingdom drinks about 600000 pounds or 4000000 gallons of tea daily, equaling the combined tea use of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia. In Front Royal Virginia the old Washington survey cabin, used as a springhouse, remains standing in fair condition.
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United Kingdom
Europe
North
South America
Africa
Australia
Front Royal
George Washington
Bank’s Part in Farming How bankers enable farmers to buy seed and fertilizer
The article explains a chain where a farmer borrows money via notes to purchase fertilizer and seed, with payment delayed to harvest. Dealers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and banks each move value along as credit. Banks mobilize idle funds to finance farming needs, enabling timely planting and securing crops.
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New York Press
Gold filled teeth and the price of dental work
A Milwaukee Sentinel anecdote warns readers about dental gold fillings and inflated charges. A domestic worker paid $3 for repairs, later discovering a hollow tooth contained $10 worth of gold that appraised at 48 cents by a goldsmith. The piece urges shopping around and notes wide price variation among dentists.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Philadelphia Times
First Chinese Baby Show Held Worldwide
The world’s first Chinese baby show featured 200 infants in vivid attire. Embroidered slippers, satin blouses, jade ornaments, and elaborate headgear highlighted a display of traditional fashion and cosmetic care. Boys were shaven while girls wore hair stiffening and bead fringes, with pink rouge on smooth yellow cheeks and carefully penciled brows.
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Penang
Humors of the Dublin Gallery in Cornhill Magazine
The Dublin gallery humor is noted in Macready’s Reminiscences with an Otway Venice Preserved scene. Jaffier’s long dying speech is interrupted by a loud patron shouting to die, followed by another telling him to be quiet. A second speaker then patronizes Jaffier, saying take your time.
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Dublin
Macready
Otway
Venice
Jaffier
Jafffer
Cornhill Magazine
The Russian Soldier Rations and Pay Described
The common soldier in Russia receives 3 rubles per annum about $2.25. Day rations include two pounds of suchary a coarse rye bread dried and cut into pieces, with a small amount of salt and some soup.
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Russia
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