The X Club Entertains A Large Group Of Friends
The X Club hosted a Monday evening party at Miss Maude Hager’s home with many friends in attendance. Members took part in a humorous challenge requiring each to recite sing or play their earliest performance. Ten hostesses organized a lively event with refreshments and praise for their hospitality. An unrelated testimonial about Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy accompanies the piece, praising its effectiveness against grip and cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss
X-Club
Real estate transfers and cures noted in period item
Real estate transfers for week ending Feb 23 list numerous transactions in sections and townships with amounts from 65 to 3,000 dollars, including W A Fowler to Joseph Schoenfelder and Harm Land Co to Charles F Raymond. The column also cites Amelia M Slocum and Fred C Braught transfers and a pair of Slocum to Braught deeds. A brief note from the Vindicator reports two remarkable rheumatism cures using Chamberlain's Pain Balm with rapid relief.
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W A Fowler
Joseph Schoen
Felder
Cate Tietets
Hilliam H Male
J Renken
Harm Land Company
Charles F Raymond
Marie Adame Ballard
Joseph Lingscheit
Martin Byrne
Aarthur Taylor
Louise L Hitchcock
Jane
Rowley
St Setaods
Avelia M Slocum
Fred C Braught
DE Braught
Elijah Tillotson
Amelia M Slocum
Alfred Lyon
LH Dilley
Lou
van Epps
Mitchell
Iowa
Dako A Land Company
Mary J Bailey
Mitchell Kheesoan
Elizabeth Samuels
William Lowenr
Mt Vernon
Rutherfordton
N.C
Vindicator
Rcason
Chamberlain
Carriage Painting Ad Prefers Winter Jobs
Notice to buggy owners advising carriage painting and varnishing be done in winter to preserve painting. They explain summer painting is avoided due to flies dust and heat. Signed Alex Dumas Carriage and Ornamental Painter.
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Csidhes the Worm
Alex Dumas
Will Shoe the Baby Ad Campaign Boost Kimball Population
A Kimball merchant offers a promotional scheme promising that every baby born this year will receive a pair of shoes. The tactic aims to attract new customers and boost local population growth through the incentive.
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Kimball
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Endorsed for Children
F P Moran of Petersburg Virginia, a banker, recommends Chamberlains Cough Remedy for children with bad coughs and whooping cough. He praises its safety without opium or harmful drugs and says druggists advised it as the best cough medicine for kids. Sold by all druggists.
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Chamberlain
F. P. Moran
Petersburg
Fine Work by Alex Dumas on Buggy for J S Sanborn
Alex Dumas has just finished painting a buggy for J S Sanborn of Pukwana and will ship it soon. The finished buggy, with gold stripes, shows the high quality of his work and has earned him a fine reputation in nearby towns.
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Alex. Dumas
J. S. Sanborn
Alex
Kindness Rewarded by Tramp’s Widow Gift
An Omaha woman sheltered a sick tramp who later died. Before death he handed her a soiled envelope and said she could keep it. After burial she found ten $100 bills inside, a noted act of gratitude. The article closes with a suggestion for Mitchell ladies to aid future vagrants.
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Omaha
Mitchell
A New Credit System In Minnesota Country Store
A Blue Earth City firm introduces a banking department to finance a cash only mercantile side. Customers obtain short no interest notes from the banking arm, then receive cash for purchases. Merchants across Minnesota watch the experiment, as no other state country store operates this system.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Going Down Hill Kidney Disease Advice
Suffering patients are urged to try Foley's Kidney Cure with a guarantee of relief. The advertisement stresses gradual vitality loss from kidney disease and urges immediate action.
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Foley
S. H. Seallin
Scrap iron and hides buyers invite Fridays and Saturdays
W. M. White urges residents to bring old scrap iron bores rags and hides to the Farmer's Sheds on Fridays and Saturdays each week. He promises payment at the highest market price.
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W. M. White
Wanted to trade stock for a farm with land details
Classified notice offers to trade a complete stock of new merchandise for a farm. Provides land description, location, improvements, and asks for price. Mentions cash payment part and box 776 Mitchell SD. Also notes various theater and fashion items from the era.
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Mitchell
The Grand Scheme of the Steam Trousers Creaser
Major Crofoot learns a con artist plans to form the Great American Steam Trousers Creaser with a $1 million capital. He befriends a tailor by promising $20 000 a year as manager and a $100 profit bill, while detailing steam creasing machines that would supposedly churn 18,000 pairs daily for vast profits.
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Americaon Steam Trousera Creaser Company
C. B. Lewis
Major Crofcot
Dot Leetle Bill
Crofoot
United States
Wbns
Scott
Revival fundraiser ends with uneasy questions and thefts
In a rural meeting, Deacon Spooner praised the night while Lish Billings demanded who would fund a revival. Abijah Holden promised a preacher but no one would pay. Billings pressed for confessions of past wrongs, sparking uneasy exits as he claimed all crackers and sugar barrels for himself.
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Spooner
Lish Billings
Waal
Lish
Abijah Holden
Deacon Spooner
The Pursuit of Happiness and Public Sanction
A compendium of reflections on the phrase the pursuit of happiness from Charles Dudley Warner in The Century and its political framing. The piece contrasts the inalienable right to pursue happiness with historical pursuits and includes a light anecdote about Bobby and a sneezing accident for contrast.
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Charles Dudley Warner
Galilee
Saintly Shine Overbal shined hair on bal hair
A Baltimore American snippet describes Sister Snowball- Deed praising Parson Pinfeather for a shining bal hair style. It notes sister Darkleigh inward grace and a boy Washington Jeffson witnessed the parson polishing the ball hair with tan shoe dressing at the speaker's house.
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Snowball
Pahson
Pinfeatheh
Darkleigh
Ton Jeffson
Baltimore American
A Careful Speaker in a Witty Exchange
A friend questions the long winded argument as the orator replies he aimed to confuse the other man. He says he did not intend to prove anything but to prevent proof that he had not proven anything.
Incontestable remarks on Fred’s marriage plans in Chicago News
Mary says Fred intends to marry but has not proposed yet. Helen questions the plan while Mary notes his dislike of her mother. A Jugend quote warns against jealousy of both good and worthless women. The Atchison Globe comment notes loafing beyond street lounging.
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Mary
Fred
Helen
Mother
Fragmented OCR grocery note hints at health issue and meds
The readable text mentions stomach issues and a reference to pills or bottles. It cites terms like stomach, kidney, health and medicine but the fragmentary nature makes a coherent event unclear. No identifiable people, places, or dates are discernible.
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