Mitchell city notes and corn palace updates fade in and out
Local news from Mitchell reports arrivals and departures, moves, sales, and social visits. Mentions of Pettit family, A. Truax home possession, and Mrs. Stair’s G A R encampment trip. Corn palace preparations, street improvements, and police staffing expand city life amid ads for jackets, clothing, and Rocky Mountain Tea.
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Na Mitchell Plumbing Co
Manchesar
Minneapolis
H. D. Butterfield
C. E. Vermilyea
Commercial College
Mankako
Minn
J.D. Elliott
United States District Attorney
Tyndall
Tugeday
Sioux Falls
Omaha
James Haynes
Mt. Vernon
A. E. Dean
E. S. Johnston
Frederick Phinney
United States Band
Chicago
Nutie Coughlin
Milwaukee Railroad
Parketon
Parket
J L.hannett
VanAlstine
Electric Light Co
W. P. Hix
Dashwood
Standard Oil Co
J.a.gheen
Hix Wea
Mitchell
J. K. Wison
Ashton
CG. Wy. Downey
Will Scallin
Scotland
Corn Palace
Henry Parry
Aberdeen
Mithell
Methodist Church
Cuarland
Hancett
Corporation
Prohibition
Huron
Traveling men's politics and the Bryan belief refuted
A Sioux City interview with John G. Scriven reports traveling salesmen in the Midwest leaning toward McKinley. Scriven surveyed 100 men and found 82 intend McKinley, 18 Bryan. only one former Bryan voter would back Bryan again. The list includes names, firms, and districts, challenging claims that traveling men desert Republican ranks.
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John
Scriven
Sioux City
Democratic World-Herald
Uiuaha
West
Bryan
Iis
Jobo Y W. Scriven
Milewell
3. D
Woo
Equitble Insurance Company
Iowa
Norup
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minneola
M. Kinley
Lyon Hotel
Rock ‘Rapid
World Herald
McKinley
McKenley
The Hardy Goat as a Value for Dairy Use
The goat, useful beyond weed control and fiber, thrives where cows fail and provides nutritious milk with minimal feed. For urban milk supply and home use, goats need shelter from storms and winter, plus varied, clean feed. A milker can yield about three to four pints daily, and goat milk can replace eggs in pastry when well cared for.
The Fearful Devil of the Hindoos and Devi
A Westminster Review summary notes Siva and Devi as deities embodying physical destruction and misfortune. Siva is described as the terrible destroyer roaming with ghosts, naked and smeared with funeral ashes, while Devi appears as a fierce consort with blood, snakes, and skulls. The text stresses no moral evil, only power used unjustly.
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Siva
Devi
Durga
Aims
Kali
S'va
Westminster Review
Mow Twain Introduced Hawley at a Republican meeting
Will M Clemens recalls Mark Twain briefly introducing General Hawley of Connecticut at a Republican gathering in Elmira New York during 1880. Clemens praises Hawley as pure, honest, incorruptible and a neighbor with a kind heart while joking about his political stance and character.
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Mow Twain
Hawley
Mark Twain
Will M. Clemens
Ainslee’s
Clemens
Elmora
N. Y
General Hawley
Connecticut
Hartford
Joe Hawley
Origins of the kiss in Roman etiquette and law
Frank H. Vizetelly explains how kissing the hand emerged as a sign of homage under early Roman rulers and later became a distinction for high officials. The custom reflected social bounds, with spouses and kinship roles shaping who could kiss whom, and how betrothal and death affected inheritance.
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Frank H. Vizetelly
Easy Remedy and The Tower of Famine in Pisa
A snippet from Pearson's Weekly features a quip about a doctor offering a cure for love and a fee. The Torre della Fame in Pisa, condemned by history, housed Count Ugolino della Gherardescha and family, later sealed with the keys cast into the Arno. Also notes on musical fish such as trigla and ophidum species and their sound organs. A brief joke about whiskers and a necktie from Harper's Bazaar closes.
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Pisa
Italy
Ugolino Della Gherardscha
Dante
Arno
Inventors and a Death Test in a Witty Philadelphia Press Tale
A quirky Philadelphia Press item describes travelers as inventors on voyages of discovery guided by private charts. A foreboding Death on a white horse halts at a gate, but a sick man warns that his wife would not tolerate the horse tied to a tree, adding dry humor to the ominous moment.
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Death
Philadelphia Press
Her Figure and the Six Figures in a Bantering Exchange
In a brief quip from the Philadelphia Press the talk centers on a woman described as plain in appearance yet possessing a celebrated “figure.” The man counters with a playful remark that she has six figures, the first being a five, turning the insult into comic self-reference.
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Philadelphia Press
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Mitchell and Vicinity
Salvation Army
H. W. Smith
L. B Stair
Bessie
Carl
Michigan
Indiana
Stair
India
Blanche Railey
Ferguson
Col
Dick Woods
L. G. Taylor
Alexandria
Chas. Taompoon
Miller
GC. CG. Dean
Taos. Sterling
Redfield
C. J. Ellis
J. S. Terrill
Hapgood
Bridgewater
J. A. Cook
Clarence Brackett
Michell
Tandard Oil CO
Traveling Men’s Politics
Hardy Goat
Siva and
Lover
Pearson’s Weekly
Jewett
Harper
A. T. McGovern & Sons
Letcher S. D
West Union
Fish Bros
Rock Island Disk
Olmir Sulky and Gang
Dain
Mitchell, South Dakota
D. W. Collins
Republican Office
C. E. Vermilyer
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