Republican State Platform of South Dakota 186
The Republican Party in South Dakota endorses the St Louis national platform, pledges support for McKinley and Hobart, and commits to honest governance, labor friendship, arbitration in labor disputes, regulation of railways, opposition to trusts, and investigations into grain elevator management. It calls for legislative action to enforce the platform and unite voters for the ticket in county, state, and national races.
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South Dakota
St. Louis
William McKinley
Garret A. Hobart
Republican Party
Board of Railway Commissioners
Congress
Senate
Davison County Republicans Call Delegates Convention in Mitchell
Davison county Republicans plan a delegate convention at Mitchell Court House at 1 p m Friday September 11 1896 to nominate legislative and county officers including senator representative treasurer register of deeds sheriff clerk of the courts auditor states attorney judge superintendent of schools surveyor assessor coroner and four justices of the peace four constables plus a county central committee for two years and adjournment business. Also a call for precinct caucuses and commissioner district conventions with instructions to delegates.
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Davison County
Mitchell
Wowit
Perry
Lisbon
Badger
Union Blendon
Mt. Vernon
Beulah
Tis
Republican County Central Committee
S. D
Rt. C. Burns
F. A. Bidwell
Ioner's Convent
Court House
Prosper Township
Mitchell Township
East Side
City of
Beulah Township
West Side
T. C
Bms
Bidwell
Mt Vernon notes mix with church events and farming
The town patch shows railway crews upgrading tracks, local farms and traders arriving from Iowa and Minnesota. Community notes cover a gold medal contest, school openings, threshing, hay loss, funerals, social events and local speeches on currency.
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MT. Vernon
Milwaukee Railway Company
T. B. Haynes
B. F. Cheney
Charles City
Iowa
Frank Rich, Jr
Hartley
McMichael & Co
E.R. Stover
Cleardale
Stover
Blendon Township
M. E. Jchurch
Emma Haynes
Ben Schlund
Dora Bobb
May Grieve
Ida Haines
Belle Hoppock
Man Overboard Prank Becomes Stage Triumph
The actor maintaining composure as chaos erupts on stage turns a potential mishap into a celebrated moment. A prop gaffer’s head emerges through gauze sea while the pirate crew hails a man overboard cue, stunning the audience and drawing applause.
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Gaper
London Spectator
Changeable Climate Prompts Moral Wardrobe Debate
A shopper debates clothing ethics with a menswear clerk. The exchange centers on seasonability in a volatile climate and the clerk’s claim to advise on correct attire as the buyer seeks both fashion and courage to defy mob opinion. The Washington Star quotes the dialogue.
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Washington Star
Next Discoveries for Scientific Men Promise Longevity
The New York Herald ponders future breakthroughs in preserving and restoring the human body. It imagines an era when wasting tissues are restored to maintain poise, replace losses, and renew health, promising long life and better function.
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New York Herald
Parisian Canadian speech and the province of Quebec
A literary passage contrasts Parisian and French Canadian speech and spelling, highlighting consonant and vowel shifts in words ending with ais and names like Beauharnois, with examples from M. Manseau and notes on Quebec’s old time traditions. A separate anecdote recalls a long range bullet incident in India showing ricochet dangers.
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Trois-Rigieres
Jean Baptiste
France
Beauharnois
M. Manseau
Quebec
Adam Fergusson and the Fontenoy Stand as Chaplain Defies Order
Adam Fergusson, later a professor of history at the University of Edinburgh and author of a popular history of the Roman republic, served as chaplain of the Black Watch. At Fontenoy he rode at the head with a drawn sword, ignored orders to fall back, and faced a threatened removal of his commission by Colonel Sir Robert Munro.
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Adam Fergusson
University of Edinburgh
Black Watch
Fontenoy
Robert Munro
Fergusson
Stones and Desert Skies Echo Ancient Legends
The article recalls legends of stones raining from the sky in the Sahara and other regions, noting Arabs’ tales of a long shower that buried land and life. It cites Jenekyn and Donnelly’s ideas like the cometary theory and Ragnarok as echoed in Blackwood’s Magazine.
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Great Sea of Space
Sahara
Jenekyn
Africk
Ignatius Donnelly
St. Louis Republic
George IVs Queer Clock Sold In Paris Auction
The negress head timepiece ordered for George prince of Wales by the Duc d Aumale s grandfather Egal ite sold in Paris with late M Leopold Double curios. Bauchaumont notes it drew crowds at Furet s Palais Royal as jewels and bells reveal hour and minute.
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George IV
Bouchier
Duc d’Aumale
Egalite
George
Prince of Wales
England
Paris
M. Leopold Double
Bauchaumont
Furet’s
Palais Royal
Pall Mall Gazette
Over a Thousand Women in New York Pen Living
A centuries old note claims more than a thousand New York women earn living by writing. The text cites ideas from Leeuwenhoek and Humboldt about the reach of a single pound of fine spiders' silk via world webs.
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New York
Leeuwenhoek
Humboldt
Rail Schedule and Insurance Ad From Early Daily Page
C M and St P railroad timetables list departures and arrivals for passenger and freight trains from the north and south with Sunday adjustments. An insurance promotion from Travelers Accident Insurance Co offers policies including weekly indemnity with set premiums and amounts. Agent F E Clark represents C M and St P. Mitchell S D is noted.
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Travelers Accident Insurance Co
Hartford
Conn
F. E. Clark
C. M. & St. P. Mitchell, S. D
World Wide Ship Tickets At Low Rates
Travel ads offer tickets to all parts of the world with low rates and free reservations. For information contact PF E Clark, agent for C M and St P line.
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PF. E. Clark
C. M
St. P
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Jacob
DeWitt
LL. O. Gale
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Madras Civil Corps
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Madras
New York Sun
Munro
Blackwood
C.M
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