Neighborhood notes report local events and incidents
The column lists numerous small town items including a successful pound social raising over thirty dollars, election results in Rome township, visits by residents like W. N. Rapalee, and everyday happenings in Ethan Plano EMSLEY Badger and surrounding areas. It notes a windmill accident, church sermons, Christmas planning, and plans for a lecture with reserved seats at Gale's drug store.
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Ethan
M. E
Rome Township
W. N. Rapalee
Tyndall
Ass Dodd
Drake
Vermillion
Hager
Charley
Elzina Vegas
Bard
Gen Gordon to Speak on The Last Days of the Confederacy
Gen John B. Gordon will lecture Saturday evening as part of the lecture and concert course. The Washington Post praised the crowd size and setting at Convention Hall, noting 6 000 seated on a single level with 200 onstage and 2 000 in attendance, highlighting the speaker’s wartime leadership and national significance.
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John B. Gordon
Washington Post
Convention Hall
Madison Square Garden
Quiet Judicial Election Shows Low Turnout Across Wards
Voters came out slowly with noon tallies far behind registration totals. By 4 pm First ward 120 votes, Second 132, Third 102, Fourth 130. registration stood at 231, 187, 155, 202 respectively. Some twenty voters unregistered swore in to vote. Dr. J W Pierce distributes The Common Sense Medical Adviser free for postage stamps. Also notes Ely Cream Balm for nasal catarrh available via drugstores or mail order.
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J. W. Pierce
Common Sense Medical Adviser
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Ad Highlights Longevity
A vintage advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a fifty year staple for teething infants. It claims to calm pain soothe gums cure wind colic and relieve diarrhea with a pleasant taste and global drugstore availability. Priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
Powder puff worship in Cuban life and a rope sense anecdote
The Cuban woman treats a powder puff as essential to beauty across all classes from grand dames to orphans. Havana tobacco plants like La Corona show workers pausing at 10:15 for powder before resuming duties. Also included is a note on rope sense in roping horses and a warning about clotheslines in dark runnings.
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la Corona
Havana
Exchange
Wide World Magazine
County Goes Republican In Surprise Victory
In Davison county Republicans win by 128 votes with city results lighter than last year. Majorities: Haney 163, Carson 150, Fuller 128. County totals show 891 votes this year vs 1354 governor votes last year, while judges statewide reportedly favor Republicans by 5000 to 7000. J. D Kress and Dr. S. J. Moore elected commissioners. ward results listed for First and Second wards.
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Davison County
Supreme Bench
Haney
Carson
Fuller
Badger
Mitchell
Vernon Brendon Beulah
Prosper
Lisbon
Union
Baker
Tobin
Rome
Aberdeen
J. D Kress
S. J. Moore
Obedient Sadie and the Rose Jar Incident
The text presents a playful scene where Little Sadie, trained to thank God for all things, blurts out Thank God again, mammal and admits she has broken a rose jar. This vignette blends childlike obedience with a mischievous confession.
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Sadie
Mammal
Lectures on Phrenology At G A R Hall Attract Full House
Dr Traer opens a course of phrenology lectures at the G A R hall drawing a full audience. The program promises continued sessions next week with a large teaching collection of skulls and paintings. Readers are urged to attend. bills and programs available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traer
G. A. R. Hall
Davison County Commissioners Meet in Special Session
Notice of special session of the Davison County Board of County Commissioners at Mitchell South Carolina on Monday November 13 1899 to canvass election returns and address other business. Dated November 8 1899. H B Anderson County Auditor.
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Board of County Commissioners of
Davison County
Mitchell
S. C
H. B. Anderson
The Dead Bee and The Salary Urge
A frail poem by Alice Lena Cole laments a lost little rover and reflects on summer, life and optimism. A second humorous prose piece shows a clerk negotiating a raise with a pompous bus company manager who recalls “saving bus fares” in older days.
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Monkey Board
London Standard
German Post Office Bans Marriages Without Permit
German postal workers face government permission requirements to marry. Officials state marriages are prohibited unless authorization is granted, reflecting strict disciplinary rules within the postal service.
Notice of Attachment Sale in Davison County
Sheriff Henry Swindler auctions the attached property of A C Pollard in Mitchell Davison County South Dakota on November 21 1899 at 10 am to satisfy a judgment in favor of James H Woods. The sale covers 62½ shares of Monmouth Merchant Mill stock with certificates 40 85 712 25 22 5 dated 1892 1889 1587 1884 and 1899.
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South Dakota
Divison
James H. Woods
A. C. Pollard
Fourth Judicial
Elreutt Court
A.C. Pollard
Monmouth
Otober
Mitchell
Davison County
Henry Swindler
Davison
A. E. Hircucoux
Plaintif
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Plano
R. LaRue
Chas
Haskins
A. B. Rowley
Lange
Chas. Morse
Rockport
Walter Logan
Joseph Beattie
Henry Koch
Milo Kerns
F. E. Moses
B. E. Barnerd
West Badger
Christopher’s
Michelson’s
Althen’s
Young
Peterson
John Lowell
Gale
Gordon
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Beecher
Justin McCarthy
Henry Ward Beecher
America
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Philadelphia Record
Hood
Commissioners’ Meeting
Earth
Alice Lena Cole
Century
Just
H. D. Butterfield
L. J. Shaw
Champeny Block
Baldwins
Kings, Russetts
Belleflowers
Prescott & Bidwell
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