Fires, thefts, and train cuts hit Pierre and region
The John Serr house at Belvidere burned, loss $1,500. Mystic lost its business district in a recent fire. Moore's store in Pierre was entered, three fur coats worth $800 taken. A passenger train cut begins Monday, reducing eastbound service from Pierre. John McGuire of Rapid City suffered a paralytic stroke. A 1,500 head cattle herd lost 300 during a Powder River district move to Murdo, taking forty eight hours to reach stockyards. many died. Shipment arrived in Murdo on Thanksgiving Day after six weeks.
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John Serr
Belvidere
Mystic
Hills Country
Moore
Pierre Bef
John McGuire
Rapid City
Midland Mail
Powder River
Montana
Murdo
Belle Fourche
Shades of Franklin on Dining Car Menu Card
An archival snippet from a Thrift Magazine shows a dining car menu on a New York to Chicago rail line with a Franklin image and the caption Thrift is Power Save and Succeed. Menu prices listed include two fried eggs 0.95 fried oysters 0.75 sliced peaches with cream 0.35.
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New York
Chicago
United States Railroad Administration
Benjamin Franklin
Governor Norbeck to press fuel needs with federal officials
Governor Norbeck travels to Washington to confer with the national fuel administration. He seeks official recognition of South Dakota's fuel needs amid prolonged unusual weather and imminent heavy demand. Pierre Cap, a government regulator, has been interviewed in connection with the talks.
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Norbeck
Washington
National Fuel Administration
South Dakota
Teta
Pierre Capi
Short Agricultural and Domestic Science Short Course Arrives
Local business people farmers and others secure an Agricultural and Domestic Science Short Course for the community to be held Friday and Saturday December 12 and 13. Judges A E Chamberlain Mrs Bertha Dahl Laws and J M Browning lead talks on live stock fodder crops pastures sweet clover corn soils and diseases with demonstrations on silos poultry housing canning and home economics. Admission is free with day and evening sessions and moving pictures.
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Agricultural Extension Department
International Harvester Company
A. E. Chamberlain
Bertha Dahl Laws
J. M. Browning
Chamberlain
South Dakota
Laws
United States
Minnesota
Browning
Judge Chamberlain
Agricultural College
Agitg
Unclear archival note on constitutional income period
Fragmentary text references Mr Wil son ity and constitutionally defined income period, but content is unreadable. No identifiable events, names, or places.
Nebraska blacksmith boasts wealth beyond Rockefeller
A Norfolk Nebraska reader proclaims himself the world’s richest man through labor and health rather than riches. He lives fourteen miles north of Norfolk, works daily, cherishes his wife and daughter, and values honest toil over money. The piece questions wealth as power and its threat to republic ideals.
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Rockefeller
Czar
Russia
Nebraska
Nebraskian
Nicholas
E. Meyers
Norfolk
Neb
Jmy
Ee Republic
Karl Marx
Trotsky
Pierce, Neb
A Good Way to Pay Debts in North Dakota
A garbled note discusses debt payment ideas linked to North Dakota and migration. It mentions checks dated 1929 and 1919, a merchant puzzled by the misdated checks, and a call to rethink debt settlement amid unclear references and stray phrases.
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Banka Ars
Dakota
North Dakota
Printer Pom Pocket Item Sparks Curio in Market
A fragment describes a pocket sized printer tool called Pom with a single HS reference. The item draws curiosity in a local market scene, hinting at portable tech resale or novelty gadgets. No additional dates, names, or places are legible in the readable text.
Unclear fragment hints at technical issue over dates
The readable text mentions December 17th to 20th and a reference to electrical work or state of activity. No clear person, organization, or concrete event is discernible from the fragment.
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Copenhagen
H. A. Kumm
the People’s Store
Ortae
Pierre
the Thrift Magazine
Mr. Wilson
Mele A
Clarence M. Sageser
Philip
Electrical
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