Local Mitchell news notes and ads mix of 1899 items
Community items from Mitchell area include stock and goods offers at Henry Koch and Colvin's buggies, Miss Nellie Cook teaching in Douglas county, Mrs. Clara Lukins moving to Washburn flats, Dr. Crane's improving health, and widespread short notices on travel, transfers, and local business expansions.
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Mitchell Plumbing Co
Henry Koch
Colvin's
South Dakota
Clara A. Lukins
Washburn Flats
East Third Street
Colvin
Nellie Cook
Hillside
Douglas County
Foley
Coughlin
Henry Koch’s
Capital
E. B. VanAlstine
Milwaukee Road
Fuller & Johnston
Sioux Falla
Rose Cloud
Mitchell
Greensboro
N.C
Miss Cloud
Africa
Lee Colvin
E. D. Scott
Sioux City
Ethan T. Colton
Yankton
John Seward
Letcher
Georgia Dillon
Addie Turneaure
Sioux Falls
F. P. Stearns
John Momsen
Mt. Vernon
Knights Templar
St. Bernard Commandery
G. G. Cowhick
Homeopathic Medical College
Kansas City
Omaha
Milwaukee
Chicago
I. W. Seaman
Jos
Gotto
Vermilyea
W. S. Sprague
DeSmet
Sioux Parle
Dix House
Mira Clara Wedehase
McVay
Rodee
Spink
Misses Peak
Erkel
Robinson
Griffiths
Mesere
Brumbaugh
Wenz
Jacobus
A Very Bad Bargain and a Century of Meals
A campus tale recounts a student who inherits about $1,000 and pays a hotel bill with meals for 12 students under a seating rearrangement contract. The 479,001,600 seatings yield 5,748,019,200 meals, valuing at $547,801,920, driving the hotel out of business while the students exhaust 52,416 meals and hold a large credit.
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Philadelphia Record
The Mysterious Passenger and Captain Ewing
The article recounts a voyage in fall 1796 aboard a vessel bringing to America a mysterious passenger who reveals himself as Louis Philippe, duc dOrleans, eldest son of the slain Louis Philippe I. The captain misreads the passenger as a gambler before the revelation and trust is established.
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America
Hamburg
Dany
Captain Ewing
Louis Philippe, Duc d’Orleans
Louis Philippe d’Orleany
Argonaut
Purifying the Air in Factories
A St Louis Republic note describes a simple method to improve air in workrooms. By placing oil of turpentine in water and spraying, workers may breathe better. Adding a few drops of acetate ether to the turpentine solution is suggested as an improvement.
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St Louis Republic
Youths' Behavior 1652 Reflects Social Address Rules
The 1652 text explains addressing people of lower rank with you rather than thou to show respect. It notes that age and custom influence speech, with familiar friends using thou in some settings and being more reserved in others. It highlights how social status shapes everyday language among youths.
Curious Indian Rain Custom Among Southern Peasants
A Hindu rain ritual in southern India features a gigantic full length figure of a woman laid upon a low four wheeled cart. The cart is dragged through streets as tom toms drums and bugles cry out. Locals believe the figure represents Varuna's wife, and his anger at her being dragged prompts heavy rains.
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India
Varuna
Financial View of It in a Family Banter
A wife jokes that a last sonnet will buy shoes and a love lyric will buy a hat while obituary lines on old Jinks would fund a carriage for his funeral. The dialogue shifts to the Sound steamer, with a rumor that she is afloat ashore, reflecting lively exchange and local gossip.
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A. B. Hager
John
Atlantic Constitution
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Pelt
Mitchell and Vicinity
George Lumley
J. B. Wolgemuth
Armour
W. E. Crane
Parkston
C. J. Bliss
C. J
Mr. Biss
Bliss
Mt. Vero
Arlaod
Florence Fosdick
Dill Wedebase
Jassie Warns
Blanche Rowley
Cora Miner
Anna Baker
Pearl Harker
Julia Rogers
Nettie Wells
Phyllis MacKay
Ralph Bowdle
E. J. Smith
R M. Cumbo
Wm. Gerber
W. EK. Turner
Carles Newbury
Jay Dundurr
Dennis Potter
W. ©. Huyck
Ayra- Warne
Mr. Vernon
Arland
Webster’s
S. F. Goodykoontz
J. N. Crow
J. E. Greene
Lisbon
J. Wiltle
Inter Ocean
Geo. E. Foster
Oriental Consistory
Masonry
T. J. Spangler
East
Ann Arbor Mich
W. H. Giffen
Robert Martin
John Watson
Smith & Conyea
Carl Swartout
Badger Township
Yankton College
Chamberlain Register
J. D. Farrell
nter-State Land Co
Farrell
RE. W. Jenney
Huron
R. Owen
Chamberlain
Mr Jenney
John.d. Kress
South Dakota Retail Merchants Association
H. Perry
Widmans Biiding
Lawler Street
Fish Bros
Perry
Woonsocket
Curry
Webster's
F. D. Powers
Iowa
A. Walpole
Leslie
E. J. Quigley
Bill
Jill
Nees and Constipation
Dr. Pierce
Fannie M. Harry
Galesburg
Ill
Churchill Ave
Pierer
the Insurance
W. H. Webster
Mitchell Iron Works
Geo. H. Summers
L.o.gale
Occupy
W. W. Kimball Co
Existance
WM. Koch
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