Local notes from Pierre and area events
J H Greighton traveled to Pierre to oversee stock interests while Mrs Geo H Miner and Charity returned from Scotland. Charles Myers became Western Union manager in Pierre. Ernest Gregory will head the local office. O L Branson left on a multi city trip. Chief Keith and Officer Briggs chased unmu zzled dogs. A surprise six teenth birthday party for Lillie Weston occurred with games and refreshments. Decoration Day hours moved to 2 PM for Commander Blanchard. Home Guard initiation is planned with about 200 candidates. Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup advertised for coughs and colds. Mrs James Foley planned a Platte visit and trip to Sioux City. Decoration Day events adjusted. Home Guardians solicitors active. Dr Thomas' Eclectric Oil advertised. Twentieth Century Club elected officers I Windle, Gee A Silsby, Lannie Brown, Theodore Graham. A Turk named Kiser jailed for peddling without license. fined $10 after a stubborn defense.
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Geo. H. Miner
Charity
Scotland
Dean
Charles Myers
Pierre
Western Union
Ernest Gregory
O. L. Branson
First National Baok
Kansas City
Hot Springs
Ark
New Orleans
Keith
Briggs
Lillie Weslen
Dr. Wood
James Foley
Little Son
Platte
Order
Thomas
Twentieth Century Club
D. M. Tiffany
I. Windle
Gee. A. Silsby
Lannie Brown
Theodore Graham
Burdock
Julia Filbridge
West Cornwell, Conn
High School Ball Team Bows to Plankinton Nine
High School lads travelled to Plankinton to play a game, returning in the evening. Waterloo scored 12 runs while the local team could muster only one run, ending in a quiet defeat.
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Plankinton
Waterloo
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Promoted for Various Ailments
An old advertisement touts DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a quick cure for skin burns boils and sores on the arm and body. It claims to heal without scarring and also markets it as specific for blind bleeding itching and protruding piles sold by L. O. Gale.
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L. O. Gale
Barber Medicine CO
Kansas City
A Timely Toot and the Poets Market
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt notes a playful vision where the old spring arrives with cough drops while the poet mocks the oversupply of verse forms such as rondeau, sestina, and sonnet. The obtuse imagery contrasts brisk business of poetry with quirky jargon and a late 19th/early 20th century voice.
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R. XK
Munkittrick
Philadelphia Ledger
Hard Case and Applying the Lesson in Politeness
Dialogue excerpts from the St Louis Post Dispatch and New York Times. A man accuses Professor Diggs of misogyny while another forces the idea of marriage. A four year old learns politeness at mealtime and concludes his mother will die first because ladies are before gentlemen.
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New York Times
She Drew the Line from a Doctor and Patient
A doctor abruptly changes topic at a child’s bedside asking for a city directory. The father lacks one and offers a state gazetteer instead. The child protests loudly, recalling prior medicines as the exchange shifts to curious references. The vignette comes from Lippincott's.
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Lippincott’s
Where He Fell Down and Humorous Exchanges
A string of quips and wry exchanges on reading habits and social status. A self professed philosopher jokes about readers and roles in a marriage. A remark about an heir and a rich bachelor uncle lands in a humorous family context. A student teases his father with a rural natural history scene and a breakfast preference.
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Flory
Tommy
Brooklyn
Editor Accepts Sonnet Openings Amid Vandalism
In San Francisco a lighthearted exchange about poetry and editing unfolds as vandalism disrupts a writers’ space. The editor and poet discuss accepting an opening for sonnets while noting the break in their sanctum.
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Dane
San Francisco Examiner
Roosevelt and Umbrella Quip Cited in Cleveland Paper
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes President Roosevelt never carries an umbrella and humorously suggests he might be the only man not suspected of taking the speaker’s three lost umbrellas. The comment frames a light political aside rather than a formal report.
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Roosevelt
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Scribbler and Scrawler Toss Verse Fire in Exchange
A playful exchange between Scribbler and Scrawler lampoons poetry and versification with editor's pipe light as a metaphor. The dialogue weaves witty lines about love, locksmiths, goldsmiths, jewelers, and diamond dealers across Philadelphia and Baltimore papers.
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Philadelphia Record
Cupid
Baltimore Herald
Similar Ways of the Extremes and Seasonal Delays
A compact quip and a playful exchange appear from Chicago Post and Newark News. The lines contrast wealth with patient payment behavior and a misquote about spring versus winter, reflecting witty regional humor from old newspaper snippets.
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Chicago
Post
Vultures converge on tiger carcass in swift carnage
In Upper India forests, vultures answer a feeding call after a tiger is killed. Colonel Ramsay watches as a lone vulture signals, ten minutes later the sky swarms with birds. They tear at entrails and flesh in frenzied, brutal display of scavenging efficiency.
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Colonel Ramsay
Ramsay
Upper
India
I. W. Webber
Holds the Novel: Norris’s Bold Views on Public Opinion
The article recalls Frank Norris, famed for The Octopus and The Pit, as a virile writer who argued that novels endure in homes while pulpit and press fade. In a Illinois hotel lobby, a country editor compared Norris’s stance to his dog Wolf, noting the novel’s staying power due to binding.
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Frank Norris
Norris
Illinois
Wolf
Political Economists Versus Practical Business Masters
The piece contrasts self taught businessmen with educated economists. It cites unembarrassed learners creating fortunes while theorists struggle, noting Cobbden bankruptcy, Ricardo as stockbroker, and widespread skepticism among top business leaders toward political economy as a serious enterprise.
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Cobden
Ricardo
Pocketing a Fee by a Generous Doctor
A renowned English physician Dr Radcliffe spent an entire year tending a friend without any payment. On departure, the patient offered a purse of daily fees. Though he wished to refuse, the physician finally accepted, remarking that singly he could resist, but together the amount was irresistible.
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Radcliffe
The Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply
The Roman aqueducts spanned forty three to forty seven miles with arches up to 100 feet high. They carried about 40,000,000 cubic feet of water daily into the city and fed 13,504 pipes supplying the metropolis.
Helping Him Along in a Chicago Tribune Excerpt
A witty dialogue between a handsome young widow and a bashful physician questions heart failure. The doctor answers cautiously while the widow presses for medical certainty, highlighting the era's medical and social tones.
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Chicago Tribune
Deeper Meaning at the Church Fair Adage
A Philadelphia Press quip notes the brave only belong at church fairs. The column, sharing wit from A Boy's Travels, recalls Little Reggie’s globe trotting tales with his father and Little Jimmie boasting of twelve solar orbits and his thirteenth trip.
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Philadelphia Press
Reggie
Jimmie
Syracuse Herald
Had Been Here Edith and Ethel Seek Courtesy After Breakup
A brief dialogue centers on Edith and Ethel reacting to Jack ending their relationship and threatening to return gifts. Exhel offers practical advice that life allows time for courtesy, echoing Emerson. The fragment captures social tension and etiquette amid a romance collapse.
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Edith
Ethel
Jack
Exhel
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