Mitchell Capital handles undecided post and inquiry report
Itseema McCoy remains undecided on accepting the office post or returning to the Indian agency. He has not yet been sworn in as inspector. The Maine disaster court of inquiry report was given to Admiral Sicard and will reach President McKinley by week’s end. meanwhile war preparations proceed with new warships.
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Itseema McCoy
Post Office
Indian Agency
Maine
Admiral Sicard
McKinley
United States
Hertell
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Klickitat County
Washington
A. M
Will Coleman
Milt Morehead
George van Estran
Klickitat River
van Ostran
van Osttrn
Rattler
A. Smythe
Arlington
New Jersey
Port Jervis
Resolutions of Respect for Edwin Dean at Mitchell Lodge
Mitchell Lodge No. 1 A OL W adopts resolutions honoring departed brother Edwin Dean. The charter will be draped in crape for seven days, minutes will note the resolutions, a copy given to the family, and notices sent to local papers including the Dakota Visitor.
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Mitchell Lodge No. 1
Edwin FE
Brotherhood
Lodze
Saul
Mitchell
Dakota
John Reierson
A. E. Hitchcock
T. C. Burns
Mitchell Market Quotations for Wheat and Cattle Prices
Market reports from Mitchell provide Friday morning quotations for produce, stock and grain. Prices listed include Wheat No 2 northern, oats, butter, eggs, potatoes, fat cattle and cows, stockers and feeders, yearlings and calves, and flour, with ranges from 23 to 34.50 for various cattle classes and 33.00 to 4.39 for flour.
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Mitchell
Local Notes and Moving Gossip From Mitchell Area
ADDITIONAL LOCAL reports Lancaster Iowa visitors Jobo Jackson and family ill with measles on West First Street. Florence Gregory returns from Chicago grand opera trip. J. W. Broadbent & Co. advertise second hand stock while Henry Parry eyes land sales. A plea for attendance at a school talk by Prof Quigley. Town leaders named for Sioux Falls convention. Goose hunt yields 24 birds near a lake. Storm, river drift and a boat stranded on a sandbar near Kooning Water remembered by Thos Maxwell and Pat McGoldrick.
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Will Rowden
Lancaster
Iowa
Pnes
Jobo Jackson
B Barker
West First Street
Phillip Katzenberger
Andrew Hastinger
H.G. Nichols
Chamberlain
Nichols
Des. Dix
Henry Parry
Logan
Della Stair
Deary Snow
Alexandria
W. J. Bice
Parker
Bice
Mitchell
Quigley
Court House
W. I. Nicholson
E. B. Tafvs
Mapleton
Fullerton
Sioux Falls
Frank B. Smith
T.C. Burns
C. W. Johnston
O. L. Traneon
J. H. Wells
Clyde Kimball
Josie Swift
C. D. DeMotte
M. H. Tussell
Thureday
Jerauld County
Albert
Red Front
Russell
Thos
Maxwell
Pat McGoldrick
Missouri River
Kooning Water
Milwaukee Railroad Workers In Cold Accident
Mr Maxwell and Mr McGoldrick, conductor and brakeman on the Milwaukee's Running Water branch, froze both hands and feet respectively. They are in a dangerous condition and an amputation may follow in both cases. Maxwell is a well known city figure.
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McGoldrick
Maxwell
Mr. McGoldrick
Milwaukee
Running Water Branch
Sale of Rare Books from the London Chronicle at Sotheby's
A four days sale at Sotheby's realized close on £4500 from 1,246 lots. Notable printed books include De La Borde’s Choix de Chan sons 1773, Shelton’s Don Quixote 1612 20 first edition, Lovelace Lucasta 1649, Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield first edition, and La Fontaine Fables Paris 1765 75 with 700 illustrations. Two Gilbert White manuscripts sold for £134 and £177, tying to Nat ural History and Garden Kalendar.
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London Chronicle
Sotheby's
de la Borde
Moreau
Shelton
Lovelace
de Fontenelle
Picart
la Fontaine
Paris
Chevalier de Faublas
Mary Queen of Scots
T. Beza
Troye
W. Caxton
Gilbert White
Selborne
Pennant
Quaritch
Benjamin White
Fleet Street
Natural History
Prince Colonna in Love With Miss Moran from Virginia
Corsican prince Fabien Colonna, poet laureate of the Paris exposition, fell for Miss Moran after seeing her photograph. He desires introduction to her and her sister in Paris with Mrs Moran arranging a spring visit. The Morans, wealthy Virginians, spend summers at White Sulphur Springs and Bar Harbor.
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Fabien Colonna
Corsica
Miss Moran
Eleanor Berger Moran
Richmond
Prince Fabien Colonna
Paris
Virginia
Morans
White Sulphur Springs
Newport
Narragansett
Bar Harbor
Baltimore
Chicago Modesty in Wedding Practices
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a view that a church wedding is unnecessary for modest women and notes that divorces have often been settled quietly in the judge's side room, reflecting private approach to marriage.
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Chicago
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Japanese Letter Addressing Style Explained
A note on how Japanese writers order addresses uses country first, then city, street, and number, with the recipient name placed last. This contrasts with Western conventions and reflects cultural practice in mailing Japanese correspondence.
Dream-led discovery by Agassiz in fossil fish study
A London Spectator memory recalls Louis Agassiz’s dream guiding him to identify fossil bones. He dreamt a fish, woke, forgot key details, and repeated the dream until a bedside drawing revealed three bones unseen in the fossil. He verified the bones at Jardin des Plantes, linking dream insight to scientific finding.
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Agassiz
N Des Plantes
Jardin Des Plantes
London Spectator
Relic Request From Mrs Burns Met With Witty Rebuff
The Detroit Free Press notes Mrs. Burns, widow of Robert Burns, refused a persistent English visitor asking for a relic. After he pressed, she offered herself in place of a keepsake, and the man withdrew the petition.
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Robert Burns
Dumfries
Detroit Free Press
Post
Nasmyth
A Disappearing River in Arizona Legend
Mayor J. C. Adams of Phoenix recounts the Hassayampa River in Arizona famed for its shifting course and a legend that tasting its waters makes a person unable to tell the truth. He notes miners called Hassayampas fuel wild stories of adventure in the East and suggests bottled water could be sold east as a novelty.
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Arizona
J. C. Adams
Phoenix
Ariz
Ike
Rats Fix A Sewer Blockage In St Louis Yard
Louis firm workers claim Tom Maguire genius for clearing a 160 foot sewer line using trained rats. He trapped two large roddents and released them toward the river mouth then repeated with a dozen more. Water then trickled and iron rods and steam cleared the pipe in ten minutes.
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Maguire
Rodent Army
Start with Blue Points, says Surfeited Knox
A brief and humorous exchange shows Surfeited Knox proposing beginning with blue points while Fox jokes about receiving too many from his broker that morning. The dialogue reflects a light city newspaper tone in a clipped Boston Courier style.
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Knox
Fox
Boston Courier
Freedom for Burmese Women Defies Oriental Norms
A Philadelphia Ledger feature notes Burmese women as freer and happier than many elsewhere, detailing their active trading role and earnings kept by the women. It contrasts Burma with China and India and highlights the reversal of gender roles in daily life and commerce.
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Burma
Philadelphia Ledger
China
Two Great Poets Who Were Blind
The article notes two renowned poets, Homer and Milton, who became blind during important periods of their lives. It highlights Homer’s Iliad written largely before his eye disease and the Odyssey completed after losing sight, and Milton’s total blindness by 1654 with Paradise Lost published in 1667 after he had become blind.
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Homer
Milton
Bismarck's Dogs Noted as Loyal Companions
The article highlights Prince Bismarck and his dogs as constant companions. One large hound twice saved his life and joined him at the German Austrian emperors conference, impressing with diplomat like courtesy. The prince feeds them personally and includes them at his table and study.
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Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Germany
Austria
Adulteration of Dress Silk Claims in London Dresses
An English chemist analyzed a silk dress sample found it to be only fraction over 28 percent silk. The remainder contained tin as in poor Cornwall tin ores, appearing in the silk's weigh. The expert warned the silk would not endure more than three months of steady wear.
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Cornwall
Regent Street
Bond Street
London
True Role and Power of the Wife, From Ruskin
The Chattanooga News quotes Ruskin on the word wife as Saxon in origin meaning weaver. It argues a wife shapes fortunes, dwells at home, and embodies the noble woman’s place and power beyond outward luxury.
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England
Chattanooga News
Marriage Decline in London Draws Official Review
Dr Shirley puty medical officer outlines health concerns as London’s marriage rate fell from 19.5 to 189 per 1000 over 25 years. Last year 39,689 marriages occurred. births declined since 1865 with eastern districts highest and western districts lowest. Infant deaths were greatest in western London despite fewer births.
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London
Shirley Puty
Londo
County Council
Usation
My H
Provident
England and
Wales
London Midnight Hunger Puzzle Echoes American Complaint
Harper's Weekly reports Americans in London finding it hard to obtain food after midnight. A Paris‑to‑London traveler wandered from hotel to club to a Piccadilly cabby’s shop before finally finding steak and tea. Ralph suggests England’s love of home meals explains the scarcity of all‑night spots.
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Harper's Weekly
London
New York
Julian Ralph
London Mail
Paris
Boulogne
Piccadilly
Ralph
England
Kind Hearted Bridget Cooking-School Girl
Bridget offers a cake to Mr. Finefella as she bargains humorously with her mother Bridget-Wall about the cost and mood for sharing the baked treat with the visiting man.
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Bridget
Mr. Finefella
Wall
How to Arouse Interest at a Sunday Exhibition
The exchange notes a minister attracting crowds with a stereopticon show and an admission fee. Police are needed each Sunday to manage crowds and maintain order.
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Hood
Florence Gregory
J. W. Broadbent & Co
J.P. Tagleman
Hancock County
Hassayampa
Freedom OF
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