Welcome Visitors for Mitchell Tournament Week
The Republican notes a warm welcome as volunteer firemen arrive for a Mitchell event. Preparations include Main street decorations, a speaker’s stand for Mayor and Gov. Church, and arches at Main and First streets. Delegations from Yankton, Sioux Falls, Parker, Kimball, Miller, Aberdeen, Huron, Madison, Salem, and others expected to attend with local cyclists competing in a major bicycle tournament.
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South Dakota
Mitchell
Main Street
Governor Church
Main
1St Streets
Omaha
Sioux Falls
Yankton
Parker
Kimball
Miller
Aberdeen
Luron
Madison
Salem
Columbia
Tyndall
Groton
Redfield
Hitchcock
Rainy Weather and Notable Visits in Wirrr Laks
An excellent rain from the southeast drenched Wirrr Laks, the heaviest in five years. Hon. Robert M. LaFollette, U.S. representative from Madison, Wis., spoke at the interstate oratorical contest in 1879 and is praised as an eminent orator. Municipal officers were qualified. GC. W. Liofmeister became city auditor and L. J. Jones city attorney. Rev. Bradley addressed the Presbyterians on Temperance Union petitioning voters to decide prohibition this fall. Chauncey Hofmeister visits friends in Iowa.
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Robert M. LaFollette
United States
Madison
Wis
Iowa City
GC. W. Liofmeister
L. J. Jones
Presbyterian Church
Chauncey Hofmeister
Iowa
The Heaviest Rain Floods Woonsocket Streets
A historic downpour drenched Woonsocket last evening with streets turning into rivers. Sidewalks flooded, cellars filled, and some businesses had to wade home through water several feet deep. County residents report no prior event like it. The marriage of Joel Tyrell and Sadie Davis occurred at the Presbyterian church midweek with a reception by Presbyterian ladies. The couple left for Madison Wisconsin to start their life together. Tyrrell works in a local manufacturing plant.
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Woonsocket
Joel Tyrell
Sadie Davis
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Ladies and Society
T. D. Kanouse
Madison
Wisconsin
Tyrrell
Remarkable renewal claim from aged reader in Iowa tale
Mrs Pharbe Chesley of Peterson Clay Co Iowa, aged 73, declares kidney trouble and lameness resolved after Electric Bitters, enabling her to do housework unaided. Additional notes praise Scott s Emulsion for throat and lung diseases, Boschee s German Syrup for coughs and lung troubles, with broad claims of curing respiratory ailments and saving doctors bills.
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Pharbe Chesley
Peterson Clay Co
Iowa
Jammer & Hammer
W.R. S. Connell
Manchester
Ohio
Boschee
Castoria Advertisement and Legal Notice
When Baby was sick we gave her Castoria When she was a Child she cried for Castoria When she became Miss she clung to Castoria When she had Children she gave them Castoria Notice to Attorneys We are prepared to furnish volume 3d of Dakota reports to attorneys desiring them Send in your order ALITCHELL PRINTING Co
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Castoria
Dakota
Alitchell Printing Co
May Days and a Toast to Whiskey Folklore
The fragment sketches spring imagery with humorous verse on fashion, stock and city life. It notes a forty dollar hat, bagged fashion, a dog in sun, lamb on market, and cheap green wax. It ends with Col. Bob Ingersoll sending old whiskey with lyrical lines praising its soul of wheat and corn and timeless delight.
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Bob
Col
Bob Ingersoll
Deluded Man Seeks Rooms From Omaha Landlady
A satire from the Omaha World questions a man named DeKnight claiming to champion womanhood who visits a landlady to rent rooms. The exchange reveals his misreading of virtue and the landlady refuses, insisting she rents to gentlemen only after a brief, comic confrontation.
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Omaha
DeKnight
Kansas
Heaven
A Novel Way of Popping the Question Parlor Humor
A breezy composed pair of sketches from period humor columns. An Aberdeen youth chases a love interest with staged quips and repeated visits, then a German Jewish satire blends with a Shabbat joke about temptation and gold coins in a street scene. The pieces showcase quaint dialogue and playful misunderstandings with brisk, period flavor.
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Aberdonian
Jean
New York
The Law and the Porter
A Chicago Herald cartoon caption lampoons a porter and a passenger over rail fare under the new intestate railroad law. The porter cites the law requiring short haul pay, while the traveler insists on full fare, highlighting legal compliance and everyday friction.
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Porter
New Yo'k
Dollah
Chicago Herald
Faith Cure Or Mouse Mystery At Revival
A paralytic young woman who had not walked for years was carried to a revival meeting. During prayer she suddenly rose, shouted loudly, climbed over three pews, and rushed toward the pulpit. Many believed a faith cure occurred, but the scene was caused by her spotting a mouse at her feet in the pew.
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Norristown Herald
Poetry Illustrated dialogue on race and ancestry
A dialectic exchange in verse about Deacon Jones and Bradder Jones questioning the color of people descended from Ham. Elder Jones suggests it occurred during medieval dark ages, referencing Biblical lineage as justification.
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Deacon Jones
Bradder Jones
Elder Jones
Judee
The Tin Bucket Brigade and the Ferry Crowd
J H Beadle describes Brooklyn to Manhattan commuters in a Rockville Tribune piece. He details 200000 daily crossers, 60000 pre seven, cable cars carrying 9000 per hour, and 40000 over the bridge each morning. He notes crowding, lost individuality, and safety concerns before 8 am and after 6 pm, with returns to leisure and theatergoing in the evening.
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Brooklyn
Lin Bucket Brigade
Wall Street
Park Row
Fulton Street
New York
J. H. Beadle
Rockville
Girls in a Factory
A factory owner describes employing girls for six years and prefers them to men. He cites two discharge reasons: laziness and chatter, praising the quiet efficiency of women while blaming male workers for worse habits and gossip.
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Globe-Democrat
Bohemians in New Yor and teetotalers in Omaha
A compact, humorous exchange contrasts New York writers dubbed Bohemians with Omaha talk of teetotalers. A World brief reports on Dion Boucicault and a real estate joke about floods and Missouri River pricing, hinting at speculative motives and inflated land values.
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New York
New Yor
Omaha
Dion Boucicault
World
Congress
Missouri
What Mrs Brown Thought Theatres Gossip Sparked By A Breath
A dialogue overheard at the theatre between Mrs Brown and Brown plays with wit after a man’s departure between acts. Mrs Brown asks where he went and when the man died, prompting a quip about spotting a spirit from his breath in the joke rich exchange reported by the New York Sun.
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Mrs. Brown
Mr. B
Brown
New York Sun
The Laundry in Mexico and River Side Wash Tubs
A Kansas City Star correspondent describes Mexican washing by riverbank lavanderas using stones as washboards, with soap suds filling rivers near cities. Water scarcity drives river washing. wells and cisterns are rare while rivers serve drinking and domestic needs.
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Mexico
Wereat
Kansas City Star
Chiquita the Mexican Hairless Wins First Prize at Show
Miss Helen Dauvray's dog Chiquita, valued at 10 000 dollars, placed near the end of the row but drew attention from spectators with fine linen and purple hues. Fler skin and Me Too rivals noted. observers curious about grooming, with humorous talk of hair restorers.
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Helen Dauvray
Chiquita
Spratt
Fler
Miss Dauvray
Mr. Smith
New York Tribune
President Cleveland Hosts Queen Dine Inspires Spirits
In New York a Gotham statesman visiting President Cleveland on Saturday morning found him unusually buoyant. The president revealed the source of his cheer saying he had entertained royalty the night before, dining with a queen for the first time. A visitor quipped he thought such dinners were common, prompting a graceful silent reply.
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Grover
Gotham
Cleveland
New York
Foreign items and notes from Dresden and Europe
A Dresden report describes a steam omnibus for country routes, carrying 46 passengers and freight, run by two men. Ireland moves to revive its woolen industry, arguing Irish cloth rivals English, Scottish production. Berlin records a landlord who evicted tenants for seven years without written leases. Prince Alexander, Queen Victoria’s cousin, trains as a comic singer, while Princess Mary of Cambridge is praised as “Queen of Hearts.” In France and Germany, foreigner counts and resident numbers are listed, noting shifts in populations and expatriates across nations.
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Dresden
Saxony
Ireland
England
Scotland
Berlin
Prince Alexander
Queen Victoria
Princess Mary of Cambridge
Joan
Jodie
Compiegne
Ems
Germepr
France
Germany
Italy
MEN OF LETTERS POLITE AND WARMTH VARIES AMONG AUTHORS
A survey of famous writers shows Bancroft and Warner courteous, Mark Twain and Burdette genial and unconventional, Stedman using his son to answer, Roe and Eggleston cordial yet formal, Parkman cautious, Howells brief, Whitman aloof, Whittier friendly, Lowell wary, Curtis always cordial, Holmes the most genial.
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Bancroft
Aldrich
Mark Twain
Bob Burdette
Will Carleton
Charles Dudley Warner
Stedman
E. P. Roe
Edward Eggleston
Sir
Francis Parkman
W. D. Howells
Walt Whitman
Whittier
James Russell Lowell
George William Curtis
Dr. Holmes
Out of the Ordinary Tales From a Cracked Peanut
Reports describe a Nevin Indiana tree struck by lightning and a pond nearby sinking to dryness days later. In Kennebec Missouri a citizen cracked a peanut to reveal a fresh pink rose inside the shell. A Pittsfield Massachusetts girl, aged several, worked in woods last winter replacing a man, tending four oxen hauling logs to a mill.
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Nevin
Ind
Kennebec
Pittsfield
Mass
West Athens
Tales Of Dogs And Curious Canine Tales Across Cities
A London constable finds three sleeping boys in a Southwark ropeyard guarded by a menacing mongrel. In New York a theatrical dog named Pope drinks water at a hotel bar. Raz ties a dog to a gas meter with a string and the dog collapses beside the meter. A St Paul dog drags a hen, battles a house cat, and tears the chicken. A Philadelphia milkman shares two dogs that accompany his wagon daily along Twenty fifth Street and Ridge Avenue.
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London
Southwark
Pope
Fifth Avenue
New York
Raz
St. Paul
Grace
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Philadephia
Twenty-fifth Street
Ridge Avenue
Ayers Hair Vigor Restores Hair and Scalp Health
Mrs E R Foss of Milwaukee Wisconsin reports that three bottles of Ayers Hair Vigor cured a harsh dry scalp and hair loss. The product revived softness and pliancy, leaving the scalp free of dandruff.
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Ayers
Ayer
E. R. Foss
Milwaukee
Wis
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