Badger and Perry Area Correspondence Briefs May 25
Local notes report births and travels in Badger Beulah Perry and Union communities. Families welcomed a daughter and a son, while others planned Memorial and church events. Weather, milking totals, horse and buggy incidents, farming, and livestock updates fill the weekly round of social and civic activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Perry
Will Clark
Mitchell
Sioux Falls
U. S. Army
Henry Timm
Martin Gleason
Mrs. Waugh
Mr. Young
Badger
Elliot
Hope
Leete
Mr. Bailey
Beulah
Mr. Wilson
Mr. Kilborn
Brendon
Slade
Wilson
Young
Mt. Vernon
Letcher
W.L. Frasier
John Beddoes
Logan
Arthur
Vaccination Debate and Humane Reform Echo Across Press
Excerpts argue that vaccination and vivisection share a core: fear of pain outweighs long term benefits, urging cool judgment over emotion. Critics deny facts, while supporters claim real, ample gains. The piece weighs infant death and animal suffering against progress, then shifts to a romance aside with dialog.
They Scatter Voices In A Chorus Of Random Talk
A Paris style editorial notes that with many speakers, much chatter never lands as a clear message, reflecting on the noisy din of public discourse in modern life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Picayune
Idaho
Coeur d’Alene
Women rule in Natars society on Malabar coast
A Springfield Republican report quotes Dr. Alice B. Stockham on Natars in India where women hold autocratic power. Men husband by choice, property descends through women, and divorce or marriage can be initiated by the wife. Brahman-origin Natars are praised for intelligence and native governance, with strong domestic schools and contentment noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oriental Lands
Alice B. Stockham
Tolstoi
Malabar
India
Earth
Nuaiar
Springfield Republican
Cake Walk Origins and Social Meaning
The cake walk began among Louisiana French Creoles and spread through the south, serving as a public wooing ceremony for enslaved Black people before marrying in white society. It evolved into a pure pan tomime dance, prized for music and cultural form more than prize value, as noted by the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
New Orleans
South
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Warm Water Baptism and Safety Concerns
The Lancet argues for warm baptism water to protect children with low resistance from cold water during affusion or immersion. Separately, a description notes the sultan of Turkey being guarded by an 80,000 strong garrison along his route to Friday prayers in Constantinople.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Inventive Romans Joke About Delphi Oracle Visit
The passage recalls Virgil teasing Mecenas about his Delphi pilgrimage, claiming the augurs bored him. It suggests Greek and Roman ingenuity in early humor and wordplay, noting that augurs and gimlets were part of the joke.
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Virgil
Meecenas
Delphi
Mecenas
Amicus Meus
Kausas City
Money Market Mention Sparks Public Debate at Home
A fragmented excerpt shows Mr Wall articulating about "the money market" during a domestic exchange with his wife. The dialogue hints at financial concerns and social custom, with disjointed phrases about wealth, family, and public questions lingering in the text.
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Badger Badger
Mr. Waugh
Coman
Daisy
A. J. Shind
Clay Young
J. A. Kipp
Huron
General Association of Congregational Churches and Missionary Societies
John Eddoes
Famiy
Lethher Lake
Blendon
East Badger
Jack Ford
Earnest Lowell
Charles Greenscre
Jimmie Woodcock
Boro
E. A. Comstock
Etta Smith
Atta Lindsay
Gilfillan
Wm. Clark
Roy Perry
Chas. Lindsay
Myrtle
Anna Ker
Jackson
Joe van Oversholt
Sanborn County
Perry
W. Waugh
Mr. Beddoes
Myron Leete
Ano
Sammy Kerr
Sanborn
Austin Berry
Waugh
Ladies and Society
A. A. Traux
Hatch
Bridgewater
Jane Pease
Chicago
Betts
M. C. Brown
M. E
Old Settler’s
Ladies Aid Society
PLANO
Bayley
Lizzie Kindle
Indiana
W. B. Rowley
John Baldwin
Emma LaFortune
UNION
Guch Distinguished Company
Enos Champlin
Mrs. Scholes
Hans Bruhn
Emery Owens
Coates
Arthur Taylor
Otto Scholes
Julia Pingry
L. W. Champlin
P. S. Champlin
Gaal Telah Roy Butterfield
Kenney
Killkinney
Mr. Just
Gilbert
Walcotts
Géo. Wolcott
Nell
Belle
Philadelphia Record
Columbus
Franklin
Pope Sixtus V
Robert Burns
Esop
Homer
Daniel de Foe
Demosthenes
Ben Jonson
Cervantes
Canova
Captain Cook
Haydn
Pizarro
Kirke White
Keats
New York Sun
Vila
Wairoa
Deering
Odels
Ange
Aerimotor
E. B. van Alstine
South Dakota
Featherstone
Zephyr
Ferguson
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