Mrs Beecher cancels engagements for year
A letter from L J Beecher explains Mrs Beecher must cancel all engagements for the coming year due to medical orders. The Slayton Lyceum Bureau seeks substitutes and books Charles Dennison Kellogg, billed as The Wild Man, for December 12 in place of Mrs Beecher. Kellogg and his bird studies are promoted as the newest lyceum entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VY. Bh
Graham
Mitchell
Beecher
L. J. Beecher
Prof
Myseecher
Central Y. M. C. A
Chicago
Charles Dennison Kellogg
Heecher
Lyceumite
Tie
Tineau
Kellogg
Lyceum
German United Evangelical society builds new church
In a corner lot at First and Winsor streets a basement is dug and stone foundation laid for a German United Evangelical church. The building will be 24836 feet with a 14 by 20 foot annex, costing about 2400 dollars. Rev Brus of Armour is pastor, Rev Emil Mueller of LeMars Iowa leads outreach with Mr Irons. The Church Extension Society gave 500 dollars. total raised is a little over 800 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First
Winsor Streets
Armour
Emil Mueller
LeMars
Iowa
Irons
Church Extension Society
Mayer Silsby
University president praises Mueller work and German church growth
Dr. Thomas Nicholson of Dakota University writes warmly about Mr. Mueller in Iowa and notes over thirty German families in the city connected to the church. The leaders plan to finish the annex for winter use and complete the main church in spring. Mr. Evans will relocate to Mitchell in the spring to stay close to the growing congregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Nicholson
Dakota University
Mueller
Iowa
Evans
Mitchell
Police recover team and buggy left overnight
Deserted by owner, Chief of Police Keith seizes two horses and a buggy found in front of Win Koch's harness shop on West Hirst Street. The outfit is stored at the city pound while authorities seek the owner, who allegedly left it there after a night away. A man named Larry Byrne later located the owner, Jerse Evers Les oor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith
Win
Koch
West Hirst Street
Loomis
Larry Byrne
Jerse
Evers
Cucen
Marvelous Escape from Death Paine's Celery Compound
Advert reads Paine's Celery Compound as a universal cure for rheumatism neuralgia and sciatica. It cites testimonials including Margaret Bethel of Brainerd Minnesota who claims long term relief and renewed life after using the remedy.
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Paine
Margaret Bethel
Brainerd
Minn
White House in a Class by Itself in Architecture
In June 1902 on the White House grounds Charles F. McKim and a guide discuss the residence’s design. Moonlit fountains, distant violin music from a Marine band, and the secretary’s lit rooms frame a view where the architect asserts no other house of the era surpasses the White House in its architectural class.
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Charles F. McKim
The
Park Commission
John Quincy Adams
Marine Band
Versailles
White House
Deepest Mines in Lake Superior Copper Region
The Tamarack No. 5 shaft reaches 4 940 feet, the Red Jacket shaft 4 920 feet, and the Calumet No. 4 on a 7 800 foot incline. Temperature rises one degree per 110 feet, implying further depths possible despite heat challenges.
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Lake Superior
Tamarack
Calumet and Trecla
Calumet and Veel
Calumet
Heela
Chicago Chronicle
Andy Adams The Log of a Cowboy Author Profile
The native Indiana writer Andy Adams rose to a cattle foreman in Texas before turning to mining in Colorado Springs. He later began recording his frontiersman experiences, viewing them as romantic now that the old life has ended, per the New York Mail and Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andy Adams
Indiana
Texas
Colorado Springs
New York Mail and Express
Punishments Cited From India Schools Sparks Debate
A London Express remark questions Army subalterns in India and lists forty two punishment methods used in native schools including two described as particularly harsh Nine involves a hand under the leg and nose while rising and sinking Ten uses a long stick under the knees with limbs bound and rolled into a corner to reflect on faults
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
London Express
Rhode Island Governor backs woman suffrage
Governor Garvin of Rhode Island declares support for woman suffrage and predicts adoption in Rhode Island and other New England states, noting it has worked well in other states and will prevail nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garvin
Rhode Island
New England
Union
Trade Haunt Yap Uses Stone Slabs as Money
A hardware firm representative attempted to establish trade in Yap in the Caroline Islands but could not transact because the natives use heavy stone slabs as currency. The slabs range from the size of a diner plate to six cart wheels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yap
Caroline Group
Norse Finds in Greenland Challenge Columbus Fame
Reports from Captain Braun and Captain Triesbie describe Norse weapons, tools, and ship parts unearthed in Greenland. They argue that Norse explorers may have landed and lived there before Columbus set sail, potentially rewriting world geography and history.
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Greenland
Christopher
Braun
Friesbie
Philadelphia Record
America
Christopher Columbus
I‘resbie
Captain Braun
Captain Triesbie
Irving Refuses to Settle in London After Provoking Remark
A young man, granted access to the actor Irving’s rooms, asks if he will be guided by a star in theater as mariners are by fixed stars. Irving replies mariners are guided by fixed stars, and adds a grim quip about an undertaker, implying he will not relocate.
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Irving
Tia
London
Grant Kissed Them Both by Will Carleton
Poet Will Carleton recalls a private 30 minute chat with General Grant after his world tour. He notes Grant admired Ayr and Burns nieces the Misses Begg who hosted him near Alloway and mentions Grants playful remark that he kissed both sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Will Carleton
General Grant
Ayr
Burns
Begg
Americanization of Mexico
The piece argues Mexico increasingly imitates American life, adopting American devices like wireless telegraphy, typewriters, and an airship service, with cities, camps, and signs reflecting American influence and English less common among its people.
Russian Mongolian Trade Mission Seeks Future Purchases
A Russian Mus sian firm dispatched a expedition to Mongolia to study what Mongolians will buy and what could be sold later. Twenty men with fifty pack horses travel with a topographer and a naturalist from the Imperial Geographical society to assess commercial needs, military control, and resource development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
China
Mongolia
Alo
Imperial Geographical Society
Radium Electron Speed Described As Lightning Fast
A vivid comparison imagines holding radium in hand facing east. An electron acts like a leaden bullet circling the earth, so swift that a person would be struck from behind five times before hitting the ground.
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Mrs. Beecher
German Evangelical Society
House of Worship
Marvelous
Paine’s
Diamontd Dis
Burlington
Columbus
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
Post Office
G. L. Branson
J.5. Daniels
L.J. Welch
Tiffany
a_ General Banking
Ashier
O. UL. Branson
L. J. Welch
J D. Newcoomb
J. 8. Daniels
J. O. Tiefasy
W.G. Davison
N. L. Davison
Emiakes
U. S
J. Quigley
Wm. M. Smith
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