War Update From Santiago Bombardment and Landing Plans
The dispatch from the British consul says Lieut Hobson and his men were not injured during the bombardment of Santiago forts. General Shafter reports 1,000 troops arrived off Santiago after six days at sea. Admiral Sampson and Shafter visited Garcia's to discuss landing as the U S and Spain war moves forward after two months of operations.
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Hobson
Hison
Santiago
Sayng
General Shafter
Seterepon
Parc Oe
Saar
Geo. Shafter
Garcia's
Advent talk by Mrs Henry at Advent Camp on holiness
Mrs Henry National Evangelist for the WCTU spoke at the core palace on sanctification through the Holy Spirit. The audience nearly all rose to covenant with God, 200-plus seeking renewal or first time. Business session reported a year’s receipts of 14,418 and expenditures 13,168 with 1,250 cash balance. Plans for medical missions in Sioux Falls Fargo and church schools were announced.
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S. M. I. Henry
W.C.T. U
Core Palace
Cloge
Milliman
Fargo
N.C
BP. Ballinger
American Sentinel
New York
Israel
Promised Land
Heavenly
Canaan
Zionward
Nee
Chirat
Popular Book of Authen tic Photographic Views of the Navy
A Mammoth poster in the HrE Publican office window promotes a Popular Book of Authentic Photographic Views of the United States Navy. It features over 200 halftone navy views, a large map of Spanish possessions, and war regions. Priced at 25 cents, with free copies offered to selected subscribers who settle arrears and prepay. Also notes loan offers and an estray notice for several horses.
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United States Navy
Some Tough Aid Nuts About Centenarian Habits
A playful collection of anecdotes about extremely old people. It notes Thomas Whittington living to 104 with heavy gin drinking, Philip Laroque sleeping drunk at 100, John de la Somet aged 180 with smoking, Owen Duffy marrying thrice at 116 and fathering two children, Francis Hongo five marriages and 49 children, and odd changes in hair and teeth at ages around 100 and 112.
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Thomas Whittington
London
Philip Laroque
John de la Somet
Owen Duffy
Francis Hongo
Berlin Scandal Nurses and Undertakers in League
A Berlin physician warns in a medical paper that nurses in private hospitals collude with undertakers, sharing circulars offering up to 25 dollars for favorable work. He notes this infamy has persisted for fifty years and exists in other large towns, urging employment of women in sisterhoods or guided by higher motives whenever possible.
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Berlin
Oil Worker in Italy Sighting at Social Affair
Mrs. Million-Oh notes her interest in a suitor who spoke of 15 years under an Italian master and expertise in oil work. A Mr Globetrotter recalls him as a rapid sardine canner in town. The piece also cites estimates that over 75,000 fishermen leave New York each Sunday spending about $2 each on the sport.
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Million
Macaroni
Italy
Globetrotter
Lordon
New York
Earth
North Pole
New York Ledger
Mitchell Market Quotations for Produce and Livestock
Mitchell market reports publish corrected Friday morning quotations for wheat corn oats and dairy butter with prices for sheep fat cows and heifers stockers and feeders yearlings and calves and hogs. Prices range from 2.75 to 3.00 for cows to 4.00 for stockers and feeders and 3.00 to 3.25 for hogs depending on grade and weight.
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Mitchell
Local briefs and notices from Mitchell city
ADDITIONAL LOCAL items note Miss Addis Turneaure returning from Aberdeen and Grace Edson coming from Sanborn to visit relatives. Frank Ward back from Notre Dame for vacation. Miss Currens to summers in Omaha. Miss Foley to Milwaukee for vacation. Foley family visiting Ludington, Mich. and more. Also tickets to US or Canada offered. Miss Grotewohl to Armour and Iowa for summer. local ranch visits and Yankton college graduate Emery M. Lyman. rural school graduates and invitation to Mitchell residents. County officials greet Clarence deaths, and a summer law study plan for Ernest Curtis. Plan for a farmers picnic at Greene's grove on the Fourth with program and sports. A land contest case Thos Naughton vs C E Rumrill concluded with witnesses. Snuff color linked to fermentation depth.
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Addis Turneaure
Aberdeen
Geo, Davison
Webb City
Grace Edson
Sanborn
Iowa
Frank Ward
Notre Dame
Indiana
Currens
Omaha
Hannah Foley
Milwaukee
James Foley
Ludington
Mich
Cook
Reierson
Florence Starr
Wellington
Ohio
G. W. Brownell
Olewein
A. H. Smith
Lisbon
H.C. Sprague
United States
Canada
C. B. Wilt
St. P
M. O
Jessie Grotewohl
Armour
Iowa Points
Grotewohl
National Educational Association
M. C. Russell
Jerauld County
Wednislay
Emery M. Lyman
Yankton College
Lyman
Court House
Mitchell
John G. Helwig
Clarence
N. Y
Helwig
Bertha Bevan
W. H. Helwig
Ernest Curtis
Grant Park
Ill
A. E. Hitchcock
Curtis
House of Representatives
Illinois
Major Greene
Greene’s Grove
Greene
Pleasant Grove
Fusion settles three silver parties at Aberdeen
Delegates from Lincoln and Union County confirm fusion among the three silver parties at a Aberdeen conference. Democrats win treasurer auditor school lands and public instruction posts. populists take congressmen governor and lieutenant governor. John Colvin expected as lieutenant governor. Silver Republicans likely receive attorney general and possibly more.
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Aberdeen
Lincoln
Union County
John Colvin
Ticket Names Shift in South Dakota Convention Blend
Aberdeen June 23. Three conventions the populists democrats and free silver republicans concluded their work by naming their state ticket. Freeman Knowles and J E Kelley as congressmen Andrew E Lee as governor T C Robinson lieutenant governor Geo Sparling secretary of state Maris Taylor treasurer L G Hintz superintendent of public instruction C S Palmer attorney general Hugh J Smith auditor John Scollard commissioner of school lands W H Tompkins railroad commissioner. The free silver republicans won lieutenant governor and attorney general. Democrats won auditor treasurer commissioner of school lands and superintendent. Populists secured the remainder.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Freeman Knowles
J. E. Kelley
Andrew E. Lee
Clay County
T. C. Robinson
Brown County
Geo. Sparling
Edmunds County
Maris Taylor
Beadle County
L. G. Hintz
Hutchinson County
C. S. Palmer
Minnehaha County
Hugh J. Smith
Minea County
John Scollard
Mead County
W. H. Tompkins
Milwaukee excursion rates for midwest events announced
E. E. Clark lists excursion rates effective from Mitchell for events in Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Omaha and Trans Mississippis exposition. One regular fare plus 2 dollars round trip to Denver area and Omaha sales at one and one third fare for 30 days.
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E. E. Clark
Mitchell
General Federation of Woman’s Clubs
Denver
Colo
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
American Institute of Homeopathy
Omaha
Neb
Weather Window and Uncalled Mail at Mitchell Post Office
The weekly weather note lists temperature range observations by the local government station. A separate notice lists uncalled letters ending June 22 1898 for Fenshu F E Madden Miss Lizzie Olsen Miss Lena Pedersen Miss Lena Schmetter W A. Advertised. unclaimed items will be sent to the dead letter office if not collected in two weeks.
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Mitchell
Fenshu
F. E. Madden
Lizzie Olsen
Lena Pedersen
Lena Schmetter
Saml. T, Green
P. M
Only English Pope Adrian IV Named in Legacy
Westminster Gazette notes that the sole English ruler of the papacy was Nicholas Breakspear born around 1100 in Langley near St. Albans. Elected unanimously in 1154 he held the title Adrian IV. The item contrasts historical record with a humorous London Sketch moment about a child requesting to see a tongue, reflecting light cultural notes.
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Nicholas Breakspear
Langley
St. Albans
Adrian IV
Westminster Gazette
Drinking In Medieval Universities Privileges Of Students
A portrait of university life as a state within a state where students were tax exempt and immune from military service. Leyden students used privileges to import wine and beer free of duty, prompting a law limiting student consumption to 80 gallons of wine and 12 half casks of beer.
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Cis
Leyden
W. T. Hewett
Harper's Magazine
Unworthy Trick and the Sun's Endless Debate
A Pall Mall Gazette tale recounts a Swiss landowner using wine as a lure to sway a local railway vote.108 voters cast ballots with 107 yes and 1 no, including the impresario who tipped the scale. The piece segues into sun-heat physics and a Washington Star note on the city chain gang.
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Pall Mall
Switzerland
Clergyman Deflects Politics in Heaven Debate
In a Detroit Free Press item a clergyman criticized for lacking emphasis on current questions replies that he declines to advocate on either side. He says his mission is to help prepare people for life in the next world, and asserts there is no politics in heaven despite others’ expectations.
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Detroit Free Press
Old Scrooge would toll the sky over his house in airships
A London Tit-Bits quip imagines Old Scrooge asserting a landlord's rights to a man’s real estate extend upward to the sky and proposes charging tolls on passing balloons when airships are in operation.
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Scrooge
London
Theatrical Villain Mr Crimsonbeak incident
The Yonkers Statesman quotes a dispute in a theater where a guest blocked passage by climbing over another’s lap to leave between acts. The item contrasts with a French law prohibiting night frog captures, noting legal trivia.
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Mr. Crimsonbeak
Delicate Methods of Reading Letters by Cabinet Noir
A detailed account from the London Globe describes the French cabinet noir tactics to open letters. It covers gum, wax, or metal fasteners, steam, hooks, and careful resealing to avoid detection, plus the occasional suppression of unread letters.
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M. Delcasse
Ministry of Marine
Louis Philippe
Napoleon III
Post Office
Cabinet Noir
London Globe
The Blockhead House Name Spins A Boston Joke
The excerpt juxtaposes critics and editors from The Pilot and The Courier. It cites The Pilot defending a biblical quote and jokes about reforms, then notes a quip about naming a house The Blockhead. The piece showcases newspaper voice and period humor through concise controversy and light banter.
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Boston Courier
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Mrs. Jenks
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C. M. Peck
Edith Earl Lone
Fannie McCormick
Grace Coranwell
My Young Men's Work
H. Gunderson
Bridgewater
Sioux Falls
South Dakota Detective Association
Mt. Vernon
Letcher
T-chetter
Tschetter
L. W. Champlin
B. P. Jones
Prosper Township
Davison County
Lake County
Land Office
Thos. Naughton
C.e.rumrill
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G. C. Krause
J. M. Adama
Huyck
Janever
Miss J
Tia
Chain Gang
Farcy
Corporation of Washington
Asylum
Penitentiary Department
M, N. Sixth
Seventh Streets
Anacostia
Washington Star
France
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Paul
Boston Pilot
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