Mitchell and Vicinity Happenings Summary
Local notes from Mitchell and nearby include visits and returns of residents from Sioux City Sisseton and Waterloo, births and deaths, business trips, court delays in Aurora county, and plans for a new artesian well. Emigration to South Dakota and improvements at the post office are noted along with a Bachelor Club party at Mitchell Club rooms.
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Carl Ralston
Curtis
Mitchell Club
Rathbun
Merill
Spangler Transits Sioux Pass and Cataract Work
Mr. J J Spangler visited Sioux Pass Thursday and returned on the Onahe. Work has started on the new Cataract ho re. John Laidlaw of Alexandria, a former resident, has entered the dry goods business by purchasing a local store he operated sixteen years ago. The Malison Odd Fellows plan a two story building with lodge rooms above and storerooms below, construction to start immediately and finish before summer. Bludbinder advertised to tone up the system and ward off the Grippe, sold by J H Perris.
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A. Nabinger
Geo. E. Logan
Waterloo
Iowa
New York
Frank Shepard
Graceland Cemetery
Sioux Falls
Segson
Post Office
Iced Bjordstrop
Post Office Department
Clark
M. J. Gusche
Annie Haynes
Mt. Vernon
Gerbie
Central House
Wm. Koch
California
Earl Bobb
Sizsetoo
Dr. Bob
Allan
Pacific Coast
G. Nichols
M. J. Gosche
John Reed
Dubuque
W. H. Bowen
Arizona
W. E. Turner
St. Paul
Buttermakers Association
L. D. Griffin
de Smet
Nellie Myers
Fred C. Bager
Wolstey
Arlington
Plankinton
Watertown Herald
Methodist Church
A. C. Stevens
Hhis Church
Stevens
J Spangler
Sioux Pass
Spangler
John Laidlaw
Alexandria
P Bce
Ion Dinger
la Grippe
J. H. Perris
Pretty as They Make Her In Pick Me Up Verse
A nostalgic lyric praises a beloved maiden, praising her beauty and virtue. The speaker vows devotion, claims no other man is worthy, and contrasts her modest dress with modern finery while declaring his possessive affection. The verse exalts her as queenly and saintly among peers.
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Pia
Lamp Chimneys Made In This Country By Millions Annually
A New York Sun survey notes 12 600 workers produce lamp chimneys with millions made yearly. Most factories are west of the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana near gas regions. US exports grow while imports from Germany and France remain small.
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Alleghany Mountains
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
New York
Yor
Germany
France
Europe
Mexico
West Indies
South America
South Africa
China
Madrid humor quotes and an ad writing tale
A collection of Madrid style jokes showing contemporary Spanish humor with lines about love work and creditors. Also a note on the craft of newspaper advertising describing how department store ads are written edited and prepared by a team under an advertising manager.
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Madrid
Bogged in a Cornwall bog 1891 rescue by bamboo aid
Reverend S Baring-Gould recounts a near fatal bog incident at Redmire in Cornwall during 1891. He and a companion sank deep as six bullocks had already perished that year, and he used a six foot bamboo to lever himself to the surface and crawl to safety despite strong suction and loss of his gaiters.
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Cornwall
S. Baring-Gould
Redmire
Mr. Baring-Gould
Largest Kitchen in England at Raby Castle
The New York Tribune reports Raby Castle, seat of the Duke of Cleveland, houses England’s largest kitchen at 30 feet square with three chimneys for grate stoves and the caldron. Its arched roof, cupola, five windows, and 15 foot oven fueled grand hospitality, once entertaining 700 knights with ample beef venison and pork.
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England
Raby Castle
New York Tribune
Ship record frightens family in Detroit note
Mrs Fosdick asks Mrs Spriggs about going to Europe and Mr Spriggs not leaving his business. The fear centers on a ship breaking its record and the danger of being stranded in the ocean, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
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Europe
The Masculine Test in Society Satire
The piece mocks Getthar as rich yet not well born. Cholly notes May-How’s concern with social access, pointing out Getthar struggles to ride in a hansom without snagging his silk lat. Punch magazine tone highlights class pretensions.
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Cholly
Getthar
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Sisset
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John Abraham
Chicago
Emma Haynes
Robert Getty
Buck Grove
Milwaukee Road
Mr. Getty
South Dakota
Merrill
Merril
Mitchell
J.J. Fitzgerald
United States Express Co
Oftiasrs
James Sturtevant
Manilla
Mr. Sturtevant
W.S. Emmert
J. C. Hamiel
Kennedy
Mr. Emmert
Mr. Hamiel
East First Street
Layne
Gedeon
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Ernesto
Manina
Mexical Herald
Philadelphia Record
Ladies Goods
Children’s Goods
Alaskas
Arctics
Chicago Shoe House
T. Gilman
O. L. Branson
J. S. Daniels
L. J. Welch
J.H. Tobin & Sons
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