In Town and Country News Bits From Mitchell
Local notes from Mitchell include visits by Mrs J Haynes to Mt Vernon and Mrs Wm M Smith returning from a Minneapolis trip, plus new business moves by Truax Betts and J W Broadbent. Readers learn about hospital visits, school openings, a city paper launch, and a windmill ad campaign as community life moves through August events.
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J. Haynes
Mt. Vernon
EE. B. VanAlstine
H. L. Bras
Clarion
W. EE. Turner
Chicago
D. W. Collins
Wm. M. Smith
Minneapolis
Omaha Road
His Salvation. The cure for ruin by liquor asset
The positive man in a law office declares drink is the only thing to save him from ruin. He explains all his money is invested in an inebriates' cure, prompting a perplexed response from the lawyer as reported by the Yonkers Herald.
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Edna Daniels
Gustavus ‘Loevinger
Minneapolis
Mason City
State University of Minnesota
D. R. Tomlin
Board of Education
O. T. Litchfield
S. B. Spink
Prof. T. A. Duncan
Michels & Tobin
Alex. Dumas
Ole Hess
Republican
Ole
Dr. King
Yonkers Herald
Crippled Centipede Comedy in Boston Herald Note
A humorous spoof from the Boston Herald describes a centipede reacting to a housekeeper’s swat with a dishcloth. The creature laments losing many feet while a sympathetic fly comments on the impact, delivering a light hearted, cartoonish scene.
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Boston Herald
Ragging and Rag Vocabulary Across Regions
A discussion notes ragging as more common in England than the US. An English paper says rag is a real old verb used to banter or irritate, with Icelandic parallels. In Lincolnshire provoking a boy is “getting his rag out.” Bullyrag elaborates the term, and ragamuffin once meant a demon.
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England
Lincolnshire
Live Bait for Alligators Story from Jamaica
A Jamaica tabloid tale describes Black residents in the British West Indies using live bait to trap alligators. A puppy is tied near the animals’ haunts, its bark mimicking a baby alligator, drawing the adult from the mud. A so called public safety item is used to kill the alligator, exploiting maternal instincts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
West Indies
Wanted to Be Heard From Testimonial Offer
A publicity note from Wortd's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York offers 500 reward for verified cures of female weakness prolapsus or leucorrhea with Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and 3000 forfeits require original signature proof. Massachusetts woman Carrie P Hannaford testifies the medicine relieved years of period pains and improved health.
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Pierce
Wortd’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Massachusetts
Carrie P. Hannaford
Hale Street
Beverly
Mass
Order of the Eastern Star
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
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Sherwin-Williams Paints
Y. O. Gaue
A. T. McGovern
Ole Kjelmyr
Crane & Ball
Spencer
John Wild
Letcher
Chas. H. Powell
Garrets
Truax & Betts
Carpenters
Western Union
L. Branson
St. Lawrence
Corn Palace
Winter
Yankton
Waterloo
Frank VanWagenen
Owen Blank Co
VanAlstine
Cora Miner
Scotland
C. L. Johns
Bridgewater
VanAltsine
Mary Turner
W. Ke.turner
Rockford, Il
Samuel Vickers
Shamrock
Railroad Street
Harris
Sioux Falls
McGovern
East Second Street
J. Wilkinson
Alta
Tuwa
W. H. Wilkinson
van Alstine
Monitor
Sampson
Myrtle Andrews
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Marian ‘Turney
Andrews
Globe
E. F. Reamer
Woonsocket
W.B. Sherrard
Mr. Sherrard
Chas, Ferguson
New York
Ferguson
Sara Scallin
Boston
National Educational Association
Wi. Koch
Calmar
J. W. Broadbent & Co
Harry Jahn
I’. A. Bidwell
Alaska
Yellowstone Park
Margie Kincel
Geo. R. Douthit
Harry John
J. D. Kress
Mitchell
John
E. A. Gordon
Upper Sandusky
Ohio
8. T. Greene
Gordon
Robert Morgan
Frederick
L. Hofstetter
Eugene Schroeder
Louie Hoops
Justice McKinley
Inter Ocean
Wells
Branson
Dix
Downey
America
Associated Press
New York Sun
New York World
Capital
C. W. Burright
Security Bank
Mitchell, South Dakota
I ‘Tobe
C.gortziaann & Co
St.paol
Berg Medicine Co
Des Moines
LL. Oo. Gal
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