Step by Step Commencement Exercises at City High
Mitchell City High School held its 1887 commencement at the rink opera house. The decorated hall featured evergreen boughs and a class monogram. Exercises included essays by Spangler Adams Dundass Keith Windle a vocal solo, a duet, and a valedictory, with diplomas conferred by Prof Kratz and remarks by Dr Dundass.
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Rink Opera House
Mitchell
City High School
F. M. Hammer
M. M. Hitchcock
Miss Pryne
Il . Kratz
Prof. Kratz
Board of Education
Messrs
Anderson
Wallace
Dundass
Keith and
Windle
C. K. Clark
Celeste Couglin
Kratz
Nesley
Bracy
Starker
Douglin
Cathering of Notables at the Depot
A diverse gathering of professionals arrived by train on Monday afternoon at the depot. Clergy Rev Hubbard and Rev Help from Chamberlain and Sioux Falls, Judge Gifford, Abe Boynton, Councilman Rogert, J W White, Editor Thorndyke, Hi King and Niss Netha King, K G Foster, the Andrews Opera company, and Bozzarro with his outdoor artists object lesson a wide range of occupations gathering on the platform before heading to various destinations.
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Revs. Hubbard
Chamberlain
Sioux Falls
Watertown
Plankinton
Gifford
Abe Boynton
Grand Lodge
Huron
Rogert
J. W. White
Board of Agriculture
Thorndyke
Kimball
J. Hi. King
Rapid City
Niss Netha King
Yankton College
K. G. Foster and Family
Grand View
Andrews Opera Company
Great Bozzarro
Tramps Raid Spirit Lake Homes Amid Wider News
A Spirit Lake Minn raid by tramps prompts fear of house invasions while at Key West a death from yellow fever is reported. Other items note the Kansas City choice for the typographical union meeting, Hampshire Democrats nominating Harry Bingham, and a Chicago doodle trial update.
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Spirit Lake
Minn
Key West
Yesteray
Kentucky Distillers Association
Oregon & California Railway Company
Leland Stanford
C. Pp. Huntington
Austria
London
Brown Potter
Naval Academy
New York
Robert Stocker
Minnesota
Frank W. Sibbs
Elliott Snow
Washington Territory
Findlay
Ohio
John Sherman
Guy, Foraker
Murat Halstead
Boston
Chicago
Twin Cities
Hotel LaFayette
Lake Minnetonka
Building for New York Central Turnverein Ready Next Year
The Central Turnverein of New York plans a grand new building on Sixty-seventh Street east of Third Avenue. It will be a Renaissance style, fireproof complex 175 by 100 feet with a four-bowling alley subbasement, gymnasium 115 by 50 feet, swimming bath, needle and steam baths, school rooms, classrooms, and restaurants. Expected enrollment is about 8,000 children, with spaces allocated for teachers and various social facilities.
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Turnverein
United States
Turnverien
John
Switzerland
Nehrbas
Turner
New York Sun
Judge Nehrbas
City Court of
New York
Central Turnverein
Central Turnverein of
America
Proposed Central Turnverein Building Plans Revealed
A two story Central Turnverein building features a 400 capacity assembly room, library, school rooms, dining hall, lodge area, mezzanine classrooms, and a 175 by 70 foot ballroom with adjoining refreshments. The coeducational school offers technical and home studies. dramatic, singing, fencing, and chess sections serve members who run a free newspaper. Estimated cost exceeds 350000 dollars with cornerstone to be laid after September. occupancy anticipated next year.
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Turnverein
Verein
Terrace Garden Theatre
Albert Grabn
Third Avenue
Charity in the Future. Omaha Lady-Jane
A humorous exchange from the Omaha World about a guest asking for a silk dress for a party and a servant's quip that Mrs. De Grand must suit the need as she has a large house and four servants.
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Omaha
Jane
Nature's Leaves in the Majority Hoosier State note
A fragment notes the Bible's massive letter and word counts and adds quirky details about domestic recipes poetry clippings and a family keepsake abundance. The item reflects a curious catalog of household curios and printed matter with a Hoosier State voice.
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Hoosier State
Wealth and Woes of Early Presidents in Death and Finance
Fragmented notes recount fortunes of U S presidents, noting Monroe and Jefferson wealth at entry, insolvencies, salaries, and estates. Mentions Madison Garfield Tyler Polk and Hayes era finances, with purchases, inherited wealth, and mortgage on legacy, highlighting uneven fiscal fates after office.
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James Monroe
New Lessey York
Buchanan
Adams
Fillmore
K. Polk
Poi
Asa
Jefferson
Liberty
Tyler
Arthur
White House
Washington
Jackson
Hermitage
Hayes
Madison
Garfield
Payne Todd
Financial Enquift Administration
Mount Tecaing
Garfield Mather
Nail myths across nations and styles in old writer’s view
An old text reviews beliefs about nails and hands across cultures. It contrasts American English hands, diplomats, critics, and Chinese nails, noting impressions, supposed traits, and racial stereotypes tied to nail shape, color, and the onyx under the nail.
Oddities and curiosities scattered from coast to coast
A mix of scattered notes reports and anecdotes from across the United States and Ireland. Finds include a mastodon remains near Atlanta a tiny two and a half pound Capian infant in Capac Michigan a giant egg laying Brahma hen in Pennsylvania and a stormy Ireland with black rain. Also noted are petrified berries and logs in Dakota a Swiss lightning strike near Schoren plus a humorous Omaha World item about Parson Jinglejaw and a remark on Martin Van Buren leaving a $300000 salary balance.
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Ireland
Castlecomer
Georgia
Dakota
Schoren
Switzerland
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Ing
Timon J. Spangler
Congress
Spangler
E. Estella Adams
Bacon
Kepler
Ienry Ward Beecher
Marvin F. Dundass
Old England
Patrick Henry
Webster
England
Daniel Webster
Abraham Lincoln
Clay
Lin
Coln
Julia Hesley
Artie Bracy
Eva Keith
Carlisle
Jay Gould
Henry Stanley
Julius Cesar
Rome
Cresar
Maude M. Silsby
Emily F. Rogers
Capt. Brown
Newton
Galileo
Watt
Plutarch
Dr. Johnson
Asman
Mitchell High School
Honorable Board of Education
Rogers
the Depot
New York City
BIG Turnverein
Gains
ATS
New Orleans
Atlanta
Capac
Mich
Jacob Welch
Ritchie County
W. Va
Pennsylvania
Clara
Artifela
Yonkers Gazette
Martin van Buren
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