Sousa Band Delights corn palace Crowd With Grand Encores
The Sousa band drew a large entranced audience at the corn palace Friday evening praising a masterful program. Soloists Miss Powers and Miss Allen earned high marks with violin and vocal numbers while the ensemble offered overtures from Bien Bien and Fra Diavolo, along with The Lorelei and Les Preludes.
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Sousa
Corn Palace
Mr. Sousa
Trovatore
Messrs. Clarke
Zimmerman
Lucia
Miss Powers
Sabe
Mige Alien
Iki Sugen
the Free Lance
Miss Allen
Mitchell's public building to go to bid this fall
A Republican report cites Senator Kittredge saying Washington advises the Mitchell public building plans and specifications will be ready and bids will be invited by late October or November. Government requirements are met and bids could allow construction to start next spring. The town received funds for nearby projects as well.
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Mitchell
Republican
Kittredge
Washinon
Novist
Graises
Watertown
Mitchell corn palace fails to draw expected patrons
Chief of Police Dineen, returning from Mitchell, says the corn palace attracted fewer hotel bookings than expected. Crowds in Sioux City were large, with two record days, while many visitors were dissatisfied. He notes grafters appeared but no gambling houses. police jailed several to curb theft and protect the event.
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Sunday
Sioux City Journal
Mitchell
Dineen
South Dakota
Corn Palace
Sioux City
Building Site Listed Near Main Street Corner
Erection plans place the structure one block east of Main Street on the corner of Fourth Avenue east and Lawler Street. The notation specifies the site location for the upcoming building project.
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Main Street
Fourth Avenue East
Lawler Street
Crowds Pack Mitchell Corn Palace Amid Rainy Morning
Morning rain failed to dampen turnout as 2,400 excursionists arrived by Milwaukee road trains from the north west and reservations with 409 in Sioux City special, 950 in Canton special, plus 700 from the west and 350 from the north. The Omaha line added 350 passengers, many of whom had come earlier in the week.
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Milwaukee Road
Sioux City
Canton
Sioux Reservation
Mitchell
Omaha
Wek
Fairs at Kimball and Wersington Spark Public Interest
Kimball and Wersington fairs commence tomorrow for a three day run with sports exhibitions and agricultural displays. Attendance is expected to be strong across the region aided by favorable weather and a robust program of attractions.
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Kimball
Wersingtoh Springs
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Kitchen and Scullery Hints
Kitchen hints advise laundering white muslin shades and curtains, using newspapers as a summer stove cover to create a table, placing a rack for towels near the stove, installing a shelf for salt and pepper, and oil cloth backsplashes for the sink to hold tools. A box or drawer should store froninl items, with an oilcloth top as an extra table. A chest of drawers helps store towels aprons and other items. Keep linseed oil Minewater and old linen pieces for burn care.
To Wash Chample Leather and Hair Tonic Instructions
Cleaning leather requires soap lather with a touch of ammonia, brushing very soiled areas, rinsing in warm water, and drying away from heat. For hair care, massage the scalp daily with a tonic of quinine sulfate, acetic acid, resorcin, eucalyptus, cantharides, and alcohol to nourish roots and prevent split ends.
Wagon man invents clamp handle to repair broken cups
A Wagon man introduces a detachable clamp handle for cups with broken handles. The spring band attaches to a clamp that slips over the cup edge and can be removed to reuse on another cup when the current one is beyond repair.
Borax In the Laundry
Borax is praised as a washing powder usable in Holland and Belgium for brightening and softening linens. A large handful with about ten gallons of boiling water saves soap nearly half. For delicate lace and cambrics extra powder is used. a very stiff solution is needed for tough stains. Borax softens hard water without harming textile texture and should be kept on every toilet table.
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Holland
Belgium
Removing Medicine and Liniment Stains
Stains from medicine and liniment are hard for amateurs to remove. Iodine marks fade with washing using strong ammonia, then tepid water and soap. Ammonia also removes cod liver oil stains. Waller's earth paste thickly applied to spots will remove them.
Cider Jelly Making Directions
Instructions for sweet cider jelly with sugar per pint and a boiling time of twenty minutes. Add six Malaga raisins per glass before setting the jelly and finish with melted paraffin as a glaze.
Fall Underwear Sale Promises Low Prices for All Men
A local advertises fall underwear with ladies single garments at 25 cents and a range of Union Suits from 50 cents to 275 dollars. It touts direct-from-manufacturer savings, fit, finish, wear, and splendid values across wool and fleece options.
Burton Chooses Mayor Race Over Senate Ambition
Congressman Theodore E. Burton accepts the Republican nomination for Cleveland mayor, pausing his senatorial ambitions to pursue city leadership. He faces Tom L. Johnson, incumbent mayor elected three times, in a city typically leaning Republican by seven to ten thousand votes. Burton, Ohio native age 56, is lauded for businesslike public service and leadership of the rivers and harbors committee. An aging athlete note highlights President Diaz of Mexico climbing a rope at seventy, prompting American visitors.
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Burton
Cleveland
Theodore E. Burton
Tom L. Johnson
Johnson
Tehndon
Congress
Rivers and Harbors Committee
House
Ohio
Mexico
Roosevelt
Diaz
Chapultepec
Immigration Problem Drives Commission to Recommend Law Changes
The United States congressional immigration commission, after months in Europe, urges changes to abate immigration evils. Chairman Senator William P. Dillingham says preventing the entry of criminal classes has been a main investigation focus and will yield important recommendations to Congress. He cites better American wages and family assistance as chief emigration causes.
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United States
Congressional Immigration Commission
William P. Dillingham
Vermont
Congress
Europe
Senator Dillingham’s Career and Immigration Policy Echoes
The passage notes Senator Dillingham’s political roots in Vermont, his 1888 to 1890 governorship, and his 1900 senate election to fill Justin S. Morrill’s vacancy, later winning a full term in 1902. It also discusses emigration and ongoing steamship ticket sales despite bans in European nations and U.S. immigration law.
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Dillingham
Green Mountain
Justin S. Morri
Love and Wedlock on a Train Car
A middle aged man and a youthful passenger discuss love and marriage in a nearly empty smoking car. The youth, eager and romantic, questions if the man has ever truly known love or marriage, then exits at the next station in disdain.
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London
Date Mapped by Winter Verbal Payments
A Wisconsin merchant notes in a humorous tale that pay terms from a Swedish clerk and local debtors are vague. The clerk relays that Yim Yonson will pay when he sells hogs, Yim Olesen when he sells wheat, and Bill Pack in January. The boss quips that Bills “set a date to pay” though the clerk says the money will come only on a cold day, likely in January.
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Wisconsin
Yim Yonson
Yim Olesen
Bill Pack
Harper’s Weekly
Perfectly Charming Quote Sparks Reader Debate
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt calls a book perfectly charming and highly true to life. It notes the male characters are portrayed as villains, highlighting the story’s sharp social critique.
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Mitchell’s Public Building
Hammer
Kimball and Wessington Springs
Want
H. D. Butterfield
Home Journal
Scallin Bros
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E. C
DewITT @ new COMPANY
Chicago
Illa
America
William P Dillingham
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