Mitchell Daily News Briefs Include Local Changes and Events
Local reports note Watrkins dow dram in Bader township, Leamon pole line extension, homecomings from eastern trips, and residents traveling to Iowa Illinois and Ohio. March plans include a sale at John Pease farm and a May Musical Festival with possible Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Community notices cover new businesses, weddings, and civic concerns about flooded street crossings.
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Thomas Nicholson
Theodore Thomas
Owaip
Mitchell
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
The Jewish Badge Distinguishing Mark Across Europe
The American Hebrew notes that European Jews faced forced badges since 1215 highlighting various forms. It details colors and placements from France Spain Italy England Germany Austria Poland Hungary and Crete with the emblem evolving from rings to tablets of the law.
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Europe
Christendom
France
Italy
Germany
Austria
Poland
Hungary
Crete
Flowery Facts and Timber Trees: A Curious 19th Century Note
A fragment describes arctic flowers in white and yellow, timber yields from harvested forests, an oak with over six million leaves, and the coffee tree resembling a cherry tree with ripe and unripe fruit side by side. It notes that picking must be done by hand.
Boston Correction Highlights Porterhouse Demand
A Boston note recalls Bilkins who moved from New York and asked for a porterhouse at a butcher shop. The proprietor urbane ly replies that nothing is given away this morning, as quoted by Harper's Weekly.
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Boston
Bilkins
New York
Butcher’s
Harper’s Weekly
Tacitus on truth and wisdom in speech
A reflection from Tacitus noting that fear suppresses truth and anger at truth stops hearing it. He argues sincerity requires wisdom to be admitted, and warns that angry listeners resist truth. The passage emphasizes honesty, restraint, and prudent discourse.
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Tacitus
Telegraphing Made Easy by F T Vail at Minneapolis
F T Vail, chief operator of the Soo Line now chief electrician of the International Vailograph Co, promotes a new device called the Vailograph. The machine automates telegraph dots and dashes, attracting investors as the company builds a Minneapolis factory and plans global sales. Potential investors are advised to write to the International Vailograph Co in Minneapolis Minnesota.
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Wat Rand Wid
F. T. Vail
Vail
Minneapolis
International Vailograph CO
Quaranty Bidg
Minneapols, Mina
Paris pension fraud involving aged professor
An 82 year old Parisian professor Bernard Mouchot who created Solar Element is found living in poverty as pension fraud involving his wife unravels. He had married at 75 to a younger woman who used a relative as the professor to continue drawing his pension after death. The impostor died first, ending the pension and exposing the fraud.
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Bernard Mouchot
Paris
Docking the Big Liners and Tug Fortunes
The New York Post describes the maiden Lusitania docking requiring twenty one tugs to warp her, while the Mauretania on arrival required four tugs to slide alongside the pier. A riverman notes tide as the key factor, recalling the Deutsch land immovable with thirty tugs and the Kaiser Wilhelm II entering with two.
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Cunard Line
Kaiser Willhelm Ir
New York Post
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Watkins Wasdow
Bader Township
Fort
Dirsdiay
I. A
Enie
Leamon
A. N. Seaton
Geo. KE. Smith
Trawarden
I. P. Potter
John Pease
Mt. Vernon
Inquire
Kelley Land Co
George P. Dix
Orton- Ville
Minn
GC. W. Sly
Turner Produce Co
Omaha
National Creamery Buttermaker
St Paul
Lyle Paulin
Jos. Paulin
St. Joseph's, Hospital
George Conrad
City
Bristolville
Ohio
Conrad
Virginia
Mr. Conrad
O. L. K&ranson
Points
Iowa
Chicago
Harry
Indiana
A D. Walpole
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Adolph Schneider
China
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Commercial and Savings Bank
Schneider
Marion Hull
F. S. Turney
Redding
Cal
Hull
Today Club
Miss Pearl Jackson
K. A. White
Miss Jackson
Katharine Ridgeway
Uts
Miss la Grange
Woward Leebau
Sioux City
Willy
J. K. Gov
Salem
Qlvg
Ray Hewitt
L. W. Lewis
Milwaukee
Wis
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
CG. O. Bras
Woonsocket
South Dakota
C. A A. Fleete
Armour
Windle- Wickersham
J. ©. Walrath
Republican
Wm. E. Cook
Nellie Pooley
Redfield
Craig Bowdlish
George W. Law
Town
Law
Saha
Cedar Rapids
A. D P. Waplole
Will Bennett
John Dennis
Ilinois
Milwaukee Road
Aberdeen
Dakota Wesleyan University
Samuel Marble
Florence Carhatt
Fred James
Ernest Washburn
Ray Dixon
John Dobson
Dakota Wesleyan
Judee Haney
Harriet
Pierre
Jolu Flan
Korren
Frank von Wavenen
Lawler Street
A. D. Walpole
Shane
Abs
van Wavenen
U. S. Wilkinson
L. C. Brower
Des Moines
Rochester
S. G. Wherry
Wherry
Istower
Tie
Mitehell
Mitchell Gas Co
White
Tryig
Methodist Sunday School
Miss Florence Branch
Blanche Young
May Nash
Ethel Blynn
Alderson
Union Township
A. T. McGovern & Sons
L. L. Muslin
A.t.mcgovern & Sons
California Ic Syrup Co
Drusgists
Hollister Drug Company
Madison
H. J. Folts
Minneapolis, Minn
Nke
Uurit
Ferry
Toenskiners Ton
Tees
Gue Pee G. i. Ferry
Cerner
Mice
Soo Line
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