Local notes and society pages from Mitchell area
Mount Vernon visitor, death in the region prompts travel to Wisconsin and Iowa. Cattle purchases from Hawarden and shipments to Hawarden for feed. Eastern Star initiates four new members with banquet. Delinquent tax sale yields farm lands and city lots. County jail case, Y M C A and university events, and a long list of local engagements, travels, and civic notices.
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James Haynes
Mt. Vernon
Are
Chas Ferguson
Wessington Springs
Pye Elubbard
Germany
Freeport
Jos. Swift
Hubbard
W. J. Crane
Hawarden
H. G. Nichols
Bancroft
Iowa
E. M. Kellogg
Gilmore City
F. A. Bidwell
Frank Weller
J. BE. Wells
Pidroff Fidroff
Prosper Township
Yankton
Peach stones and cocoanuts used as fuel in California and aboard ships
The New York Sun notes unusual fuels in southern California peach districts where peach stones are sold by canneries and cocoanuts are burned on ships and at wharves, including decay nuts broken for stoves to produce hot fires.
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Anna Williams
W. R.C
W. H. Johnston
Sanborn
Iowa
D. G. West
Clay County
Haney
Pierre
Smith
Miller
Gaffy
Geo. HK. Logan
Chamberlain
Logan
Tams
I. W. Seaman
Spalding
St. Paul
Marsh Petiit
Highmore
Mitchell
Ed. Devy
Adrian
Minn
Mons Distad
Sioux City
I. KE. Clark
J. W. Ottman
W. B. Tobey
Ethan
Rome Township
Thos. Fullerton
Mres Reed
C. G. Rathbun
Rex
Ross
California
New York Sun
Best Diamond Investment
A witty exchange from the Indianapolis Journal notes a preference for diamond frames over rings among young men. The comment mocks wasteful spending on jewelry and highlights evolving notions of value in gifts and personal adornment.
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Indianapolis Journal
Curious Patent Office Visit on Sunday Policy
A Washington Star item recalls a patent office official politely addressing a clericlike visitor who asks for a patent on Sunday. The official explains Sunday rules and, jokingly, the man requests a patent for his birthday on Tuesday. Also included are notes on indoor plants and a claim about Austrian life insurance for the loss of hands, plus Missouri 1896 agricultural output.
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Patent Office
Washington Star
Austria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Louis Shuster
Lake Geneva
College Chapel
Shuster
Lewis Schuster
Geo. W. Potter
Jessie M. Brown
Edith M. Slocum
Delta Upsilon
Ethan T. Colton
R. A. Carhart
Zeta Alpha
Edith Noale
Effie Dean
Sec
Dennis Potter
S. H. Scallin
Points
Lincoln
S. C. Jones
F. Afternoon
Armour
J. Purdy
W. J. Healhy
Scallin House
West Fourth Street
Bill
Woonsocket
Hood
F. J. Purdy
Sioux Falls
United States Court
J. F. Cooper
G. Stanley Mitchell
Milwaukee
First National Bank
H. H. Dwight
Rock Valley
J. D. Newcomer
Eldora
D. W. Burright
Huron
Wm. Maughan
Milwaukee Yards
Jake Stemler
Aurora County
Stemler
H.G. Nichols
Flandreau
Hector
Ariadne
H. R. Kibbee
Huggins
Lawier
Sixth Streets
Asa Dodd
St. Bernard Commandery
Knights Templar
Fred Treon
Crow Creek Indian Agency
Red
Black Cross
Ben Oleson
Danc- Bog
East Fourth Street
D. B. Phelps
L. O. Gale
Grand Island
Neb
Gale
Davenport
Mr. Nichols
L. D. Powers
Maynie
Dakota University
Republican
T. Gilman
Ella Sturgis Lawler
Nina S. Dousman
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Wm. Richardson
Board of Education
VanAlstine
Messrs
Helwig, Wiltse and
Brasa
Supt
Quigley
D. G West
Alexander
Butte, Mont
S. F. Boyd
Chicago
S. J. Moore
Lillian Bately
Eugene
Albert D
Grace E. Walpole
Pete Ward
Elkton
Geo. W.cooley
R. D. Prescott
J. H. More
E. D. Maxon
Black Hills
Porter, Drva and
Crex. Corp
Props
Boston
Missouri
Doctor Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Thomas Harris
Wakefield Station
Sussex Co
Helen
Levinger's One Cent Store
A. H. Pehrson
United States
Nic Dondelinger
C. W. Adams
Fearker Bros
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