Van Alstine's windmills and local notices in Mitchell
Mitchell columns report Van Alstine selling windmills including Monitor and Aermotor, with regional visits by Dr Geo W Potter and others. Community items cover land seekers, circus plans for June and July, a Denver school principal offer declined, a spiritualist visiting, Masonic and Eastern Star activities, local obituaries, court sessions, and high school graduation remarks.
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VanAlstine
Geo. W. Potter
Redfield
Lee Wolgemuth
St. Paul
City
Omaha
J. B. Wolgemuth
T. W. D. Orswell
W. S. Sprague
Presho
Lyman County
Sprague
H. C. Kelso
Milwaukee ‘Road
Mitchell
Campbell Bros
Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros
O. W. Coursey
Central
Eastern Star
Grand Chapter
Hot Springs
R. P. Hall
F. T. Phillips
van Eps Street
Union Township
Phillips
Modern Brotherhood of America
J. C. Schmidt
Republican
State Publishing Co
Pierre
South Dakota
Louis Schlesinger
Chattanooga
Tenn
Schlesinger
The
Bain
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Endorsed as Healing
An advertisement asserts E. G. DeWitt & Co. makes the genuine Witch Hazel Salve Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve heals without leaving a scar and cures blind bleeding itching protruding piles burns bruises eczema and all skin diseases sold by Gale.
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E. G. DeWitt & Co
DeWitt’s
Gale
Queer Deck of Cards Twenty Years in the Making
A New York sports man built a unique deck by scavenging cards over twenty years. He started on street finds, later filling gaps until he secured a gilt edged deuce of diamonds after five and a half years of searching. The pack includes cards of all qualities, from cheap to fine.
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S. F. Boyd
S. J. Moore
Davenport
Iowa
Boyd
Rock Island Road
Bat Bobb
A. Lagorio
Chicago
Pasteur Institute of Chicago
Adolph Haut
Lagorio
Haut
J. S.surbeck
Presbyterian Church
Corn Palace
Quigley
T. H. Youngman
D. R. Tomlin
F. T. Drewett
New York
Eoin Street
Feer
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Jersey Central
Relic Unearths Alfonsos Daughter in Lisbon Tombs
An early Lisbon discovery by the Lisbon Archaeological Association reveals a mortuary chapel and a tomb of a young girl. A skeleton in rich brocade was found, believed to be the favorite daughter of Alfonso the Count of Burgundy, allied to Count of Burgundy, with Portugal as dowry, linked to 1005 events.
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Lisbon
Lisbon Archaeological Association
Alfonso
Count of Burgundy
Robert
Spain
Portugal
Parity at the Reception Inevitable for Royalty
The Countess in the London Outlook notes the weariness of court dress and crowds. Maids of honor say the ordeal becomes tolerable only after fainting episodes and the guards endure heat and tight uniforms. A Dublin viceroy once ordered doors closed and the royal party collapsed in the drawing room. Royal life is lucrative yet exhausting.
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London
Dublin
Maine Sets Bushel Weight at Sixty Pounds
The Maine legislature reduced the legal bushel for beans from sixty two to sixty pounds to standardize trade with other states. The change ends Maine’s longer two pound excess and eases pricing for dealers. Boston market prices now reflect the lower weight, tempting buyers to purchase there.
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Maine
Boston
Portland Press
Highest altitude post office at Gornergrat Switzerland
The Gornergrat terminus railway area in Switzerland hosts the highest post office. Tourists send many picture postcards from this station during the season, making the postmaster there very busy. Thousands of post cards are dispatched daily to destinations worldwide.
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Sky Line
Switzerland
Zermatt Gornergrat
Gornergrat
Seventeenth Century Ship Buried in Dungeness Quicksands
In the 1690 Battle of Dungeness Admiral Torrington’s fleet fought the French. The British seventy gun ship of the line Anne ran ashore and scuttled sinking in the quicksands. Her hulk recently appeared at low tide revealing brass guns.
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Dungeness
Admiral Torrington
Anne
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Lonsdale
Lawn
Charlie
A. T. McGqvern & Sons
Sappenines Fa
Mitchell and Vicinity
Albert Jackson
Fulton
John Deere
D. W. Collins
E. B. VanAlstine
O. P. Shaw
Scotland
Geo. H. Miner
W. H. Cook
Webster, Cook & Co
Geo. B. Kelsey
West Fourth Street
Harry McDonald
Chas, Gammage
Chamberlain
R. E. Dundass
Armour
Minneapolis
Groenke
Dayton Computing Scale Co
Queer Deck OF Cards
Anteed
May & Suchey
Burkhart
A. B. Hager
Parker
Chichester
Madison Square
Phila. PA
Rocky Mountain
Grandpa
Guarinza
Pather
Madison Medicine Co
W. A. Branch
BR. D. Prescott
Davison County
Mitchell S
S.W. Rowley
N. Jensen
E. F. Reamer
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