Rev Durant Speaks on the Book of Jonah at Episcopal Church
Rev Mr Durant addressed a large congregation at the Episcopal church on the book of Jonah. He urged study of the Bible as a collection of books with varied purposes and styles, arguing fiction can convey divine truth and moral lessons without harming inspiration. A vocal solo by Miss Gertrude Becker capped the service.
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Mr. Durant
Episcopal Church
Dickens
Thack Ray
Scott
Sinai
Durant
Gertude Becker
Local notes from Mitchell area cheerful signs of spring
Mrs Geo Meuters visits Sioux City while James Lyons paints his delivery wagon for spring. Flandreau trader IF D Gay arrives after trying routes. James Leslie plans seeds and ads. Elder & Cole promote rubber goods. Wm Koch stocks hardware. Col LeCocq seeks Mitchell land office register. Spooner foresees spring flood risks and cellar storage rising. Snow softening roads warns Mitchell drivers. Estelle Adams offered clerical post in Beloit Kansas. H B Rogers and M M McDonald travel from Armour. First spring rain 0.20 inch amid packed snow. Congregational church program yields crowd then lights fail. Billy Barber renews THE CAPITAL subscription from Lakefield Minnesota.
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Elder & Cole
Wm. Koch
Castalia Republican
Col. LeCocq
Mitchell Land Office
Spooner
Milltown
Estelle Adams
Beloit
Kansas
H. B. Rogers
M. M. McDonald
Armour
Congregational Church
Mitchell teacher Will Smith earns success in Lakefield post
Judgment keeps him another year as Lakefield plans an $18,000 schoolhouse for next year. Will has many friends in and around Mitchell and is reported to be teaching with excellent success.
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Barber
Lakefield
Will
Mitchell
Wreck and snow delays mark Mitchell Aberdeen rail line
An east Milwaukee Road freight derailed seven cars near the Jim River bridge three miles east of town due to spreading rails. Crews toiled overnight to rerail cars and reopen the Mitchell Aberdeen segment. Snow and slush threaten future runs as tunnels and tracks froze and thawed. A long note about patient visitation ends with a Philadelphia Ledger reflection on rest in illness.
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I. and D
Milwaukee Road
Jim River Bridge
van Vliet
Mason City
Milwaukee
Mitchell
Aberdeen
Tulare
Philadelphia Ledger
Effective Prayer Needs Purpose and Point
At a New York evangelistic meeting for roughs Rev Dr Cuyler notes a hard man rose and prayed asking forgiveness and to be excused from speaking further. The scene illustrates that true prayer should be concise with clear requests rather than endless rote phrases.
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New York
Dr. Cuyler
Central Presbyterian
Grandfather's Clock Once Owned by Louis XVI
Baron Ferdinand Rothschild displays a 14 foot high Wertheimer clock with a second hand. It originally cost over £30,000 and records weekday, month, moon phases, and hourly strikes. Quarters chime with a distinct bell.
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Ferdinand Rothschild
Wertheimer
Louis XVI
Bulldog Gem Becomes Dental Patient in Scranton
A fierce Scranton bulldog named Gem earned a big gold filling in his incisor after a dentist used a rubber dam and ether. Dr Ward and Gem’s owner reportedly ensured Gem opened wide while the dentist worked, Gem’s ears drooped with pain yet the dog endured until polishing finished.
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Scranton
Ward
Gem
New York Sun
The Whaling Venture in Cold Arctic Waters
The San Francisco Wave recalls Captain Green and his partner on the Reindeer as they endure hardship aboard an antique steamer. After two years they sight a bowhead and claim the prize, then a breakage forces a retreat south. Two days later a school of whales yields twelve giants worth about sixty thousand dollars in whalebone.
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Captain Green
Fresno
Arctic
San Francisco
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Scallin
Mitchell S
JSR Chase & Sanborn's
Monarch Canned Goods
C.G. Rathbun
Sapolio
Mitchell National Bank
U. S
Ralked
Kyle
Sioux Parle Argus-Leader
Tomlinson
Argus-Leader
Pettigrew
Pickerel
Washington
W. A. Barber
Billy” Barber
Minn
Milway
Ikee
North Line
Royal
U.S. Gov't Report
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