Mitchell News Briefs include sales, weddings, and meetings
Community notes report A. R. MecConnell buying Mrs. M L Bobb residence for 5000 dollars with possession December 20. Rolland R. Jones and Myrtle E. Gregg wed at Lyonville Presbyterian parsonage. Engineer Parsons to discuss drainage in Mitchell city hall auditorium. Toland Business School success cited with 6060 graduates employed. Edith Willison recital praised at McArthur piano rooms. Dr Stevenson to visit Mitchell for eye ear nose throat services.
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Rolland R. Jones
Myrtle E. Gregg
Lyonville
Presbyterian Parsonage
T. 8. Macmurray
E. C. Waterbury
Engineer Parsons
Marian
Iowa
Mitchell
Parsons
Marion
Northwest
Sitchcock
Holf
Stevenson
Sioux Falls
Widman Hotel
Stevenson Bros
Pianos at nominal prices from Chicago house sale
Ligon & Mealy announces a clearance sale of nearly a thousand pianos from top brands like Mehlin Hardman Ivers & Pond Smith & Nixon and Steinway and Weber. Upright instruments priced from 106 to 208 and up with a return option. Also notes about wheat prices and local dray line purchase.
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tChicago
Ligon & Mealy
4Duyon & Juealy
Steinway and Webern
Lyon & Healy
Adams Street
Chicago
Mitchell Victories Highlight Thanksgiving Grid Action
Mitchell university and high school football teams closed their seasons with wins on Thanksgiving. The university squad defeated the State School of Mines in Rapid City by 18 to 4, while the high school beat Brookings 12 to 6 at home.
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Mitchell
University
Rapid City
State School of Mines
Brookings High School
Why Not Be an Egotist
An essay defends egotism as not a sin but a virtue essential to progress. It argues self love fuels ambition and enterprise, though some egoism can be unpleasant for others.
Grace Goodykoontz to Make Home in Salisbury N C
Grace Goodykoontz of Mitchell South Dakota will relocate to Salisbury North Carolina to teach voice culture. The article praises her Italian study, high soprano range, and impact on Mitchell’s musical scene and predicts she will raise Salisbury’s music standards. An auction of the Burright farm near Mitchell is announced for December 3 with horses cattle hogs and farm machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Morris
Boyles Business College
Mitchell, S. D
South Dakota
Grace Goodykoontz
Salisbury
N. C
D. W. Burright
Miss Goodykoontz
Lansbury
Mitchell
S. D
Mitewell
South
Public Auction to Sell Farm and Household Goods in Mitchell Township
After selling his farm, M F Patton acts as clerk for a public sale in Mitchell Township. On Friday December 4 at 10 am sellers list seven horses forty cattle fourteen hogs fifty four sheep and extensive farm machinery and household items with free lunch and credit terms. Auctioneers White and Myles. Owner J C Clearwater.
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A. H. Hubbard
Mitchell
Loomis
Jay N. Craton
R. J. Cone
W. S. Duncan
Mitchell Township
White & Myles
M. F. Patton
J. C. Clearwater
Maze of Minos retold in vivid stage spectacle
The revival presents Theseus Ariadne and a ball of twine guiding through a modern labyrinth built for Minos. Cretans insist no one is taken under the Greece banner while recalling an empire of vengeance and the mythic hunt for the Minotaur.
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Theseus
Greece
Crete
Ariadne
Minos
Athens
Notice to Creditors Estate of William W Corcoran
Notice is given by Edith E Corcoran administratrix of the estate of William W Corcoran deceased to creditors and others with claims to exhibit them with vouchers within six months after first publication at Mitchell Davison County. Dated October 29 1908.
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William W. Corcoran
Mitchell
Davison
Edith E Corcoran
Minos Labyrinth Legend from Crete Reconsidered as History
New archaeological reports from Knossos in Crete suggest the Minos palace throne and labyrinth may be real remains, with carvings showing bull rites and human sacrifice. The Isomeric tales of Ariadne and the Minotaur are reinterpreted as possibly historical, linking Daedalus to a true labyrinth.
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Ogy
Gipon
Deus
Eutopia
Minos
Pasiphaé
Arindoe
Pasiphae
Steodalus
Thesus
Hercules
Crete
Ariadne
Labyrinth
Armnes Olosien
Daedalus
Knossos
New York Tribune
Uses of Adversity as Told by Grogan
A factory foreman questions Grogan about quitting drinking. Grogan explains he beat the habit by hammering his thumb nail to create a painful reminder, which led to abstinence for two months and a loss of appetite for beer and whiskey. He credits himself as now sober.
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Grogan
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A.T. McGovern & Sons
Coats
Childrens
Republican Office
Dix
Miss Pollock
Villsin
Tyndall
W. TY. McConnell
Wessington Springs
A. R. MecConnell
M. L. Bobb
St. Paul Rubber Co. Distributors
Carl Butterfield
Tripp
Carl
Adal
Tojlands School
Sioux Follis
Toland Business
Sioux Calls
Toland School
Toland
Edith Willison
Dora Butler
McArthur Piano Rooms
Miss Willison
Beethoven
Chopin
Godard
Schuett
Mendelssohn
Craig
Edith
Mitchell Market Report
Doty Dray Line
J. B. Doty
Western Hotel
Wal Williams
Iron
SNG
North Carolina
Pake
Senna
California
Fic Syrup Co
Arthur M. Miller
Miller
J. W. Daves
Land Office
Butterfield’s
Willliam W. Corcoran
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