Locals Report Busy Week With Visits and Travel
N W May was a business visitor in Pierre yesterday. Frank Manion left Tuesday night for Elkton after several days here. Meta Kyde returned from Lead where she stayed with grandparents. Blaine Waldorf left for Sioux City after visiting his father. Park Waldorf returned to Cooper Meade county after days with his father. Mrs Floyd Humbert of Grindstone visited her daughter near Underwood. Commissioners Cheney Shafer and E O Roush meet state highway officials today. Mrs Wm Horst of Yankton visits and oversees her place held by Mortelar and Triole families. Deadwood reports tonight’s switchboard expert will connect Philip’s electric plant. Rebekah Lodge held a large meeting at Pohle's hall with initiation and social hour.
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Blaine Waldorf
Afso
Sioux City
Park Waldorf
Cooper
Meade County
Floyd Humbert
Grindstone
Underwood
Wm. Horst
Yankton
Mortelar
Triole
Deadwood
Philip
Rebekah
Pohle’s Hall
Plum Creek Social and Family Gatherings in New Year Notes
The Plum Creek community records numerous New Year events with ONeill Daly Ferguson and other residents. Attendees include Bert LaFee, Merle Daly, Clyde Daly, John Daly and families, Gert rude Thomas, Roy Emerson, and Miss Grace and Ruth Smith. A Pleasant Prairie schoolhouse service drew large crowds. Capu ie Ed Ferguson made a Midland trip. Clyde Daly notes a stray black saddle pony and possible elopement with a small pig seen near home.
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Albert O'Neill
Merle Daly
Clyde Daly
Smith
Plum Creek
Bert LaFee
Carl
Roy Emerson
Gertrude Thomas
Carl Stinson
John Daly
John Costello
Piedemont
Merle
M. A. Ferguson
Cap Uie
Ed Ferguson
Midland
Pleasant Prairie School House
Merlea
Fred Smith
Grace
Ruth
Spearfish
Clyde
Haakon County
Bert la Fee
Lee Crumm
Millinery business woman injured before Sioux Falls departure
A sixty five year old milliner who moved between Mitchell Seattle and here returned to the city to prepare for a Sioux Falls trip when injured. Another note announces a third lecture in the Gem theatre next Thursday along with Dr Crooks from Rapid City at the North Western Hotel for the week, planning a return to Philip soon.
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Mitchell
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Minera Arming for Raid Report in Cabins Creek District
Governor Cornwell charges UMWA leaders and miners in Cabin Creek with planning a second armed invasion of the Guyan valley coal district. He says arms and ammunition were distributed and there is talk of shooting, as public officials fear loss of government control.
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Minera
Award of 39 Dollars Noted In Ohio Promissory Case
Only indication of price fall recently is the award of 39 dollars to an Ohio girl in a breach of promissory case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Wanted to Buy and Farm Land Notices in Dakotas
A clipped classified block lists WANTED to buy 24 inch oylow Moline bees Philip S D and Northern Investment Co Fort Pierre S Daklett seeking Stanley and Haakon county deeded land. Also F A Hart Milesville offers farm loans and Haakon County lands. Estray notice offers reward for cattle branded B left side Elbow George Webbe. Farmers Elevator promises sacks seeds and top market price. Additional entries seek two year old heifer red and white with horned left shoulder and WANTED to buy 1000 Rhode Island Red chickens plus a cow for purchase.
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Stanley
Haakon County
Northern Investment Company
Fort Pierre
Daklett
Mike Mednansky
Philip
Rhode Island
Cheese Entitled to Fame in Normandy Markets
The passage extols a celebrated Normandy cheese, describing its pliable warm state, strong aroma, and rustic handling. It notes the cheese comes in a mat cake, caves in, and, when warm, becomes liquid. Locals savor it indoors, while strangers glimpse it as a dramatic outdoor presence.
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France
Normandy
Irving
Cobb
Saturday Evening Post
Swiftest aerial travel surpasses ships and birds
Reported speeds compare transatlantic aviators from Newfoundland to Ireland at 1,982 miles in 972 minutes and an army flight Boston to New York at 175 miles in 88 minutes. Yet a French test notes swallows reach 290 feet per second, about a mile in 28 seconds, surpassing average airplane speeds.
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Newfoudland
Ireland
Boston
New York
Platinum Wonderful Metal Ductility Shocks Researchers
The American Museum of Natural History bulletin notes platinum’s remarkable ductility. A single troy ounce could form an almost infinitely slender wire spanning 1,800 miles from Santiago to Rio de Janeiro. The wire is repeatedly coated with gold and redrawn, leaving the platinum core virtually invisible.
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American Museum of Natural History
Mikay
Santiago
Chile
Rio Janeiro
England's Mad Poet Nathaniel Lee Summary
Nathaniel Lee born 1668 in Hatfield son of a Hertfordshire Presbyterian minister. English dramatist turned tragedist famed as the Mad Poet after five years in an asylum. Collaborated with Dryden on The Duke of Guise. early success with Queen’s or Alexander the Great. Died in London in 1602.
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England
Nathaniel Lee
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
Westminster School
Trinity College
Cambridge
Alexander the Great
Dryden
Duke of Guise
Lee
Magne
London
Mrs Rhodes Dies Suddenly in Pierre After Fall
Mrs Rhodes, wife of R A Rhodes, died suddenly in a Pierre hospital after a fall that injured her three to four weeks ago at the depot area. She had been released the day before, packing to travel to Sioux Falls to join a brother. Survived by daughters Frankie in Chicago Jessie near Seattle and son Edwin in Seattle and a Sioux Falls brother J I Rhodes. She homesteaded land near the Slocum place, near the area.
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Pierre
R. A. Rhodes
Sioux Falls
Frankie
Chicago
Jessie
Seattle
Edwin
J. i
Sioux
Rhodes
Slocum Place
Kodak Finishing Wanted for Service and Quality
Kodak finishing advertisement seeks film mail, promises satisfaction guaranteed with no cost if not entirely satisfactory. Art Lease, 19 B. Address Lead, B.D. art. Used cars for sale priced right with auto painting and guaranteed satisfaction nearby. J.C. Bradstreet notes location one door east of Hendricks' garage.
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Kodak
B. Addrest
Hendricks
J.C. Bradstreet
Haakon County Farm For Sale Near Cottonwood Philip
Farm listing outlines 960 acres eight miles northwest of Cottonwood and 15 miles west of Philip. Priced at 28 dollars per acre, sale before February 1. Full description available from Wm. Kiel, owner, Cottonwood, SD. FOR SALE Fine improved property.
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Haakon County
Cottonwood
Philip
Wm. Kiel
Swift Moving Creatures on Jumping Speed
The article compares extraordinary leaps by animals. It notes an African jumping mouse reportedly making eighty leaps per second at ten feet each, totaling 800 feet per second, and compares this to speeds of airplanes and swallows. It also cites the common flea achieving about 850 feet per second.
Careless Man Smith I Am Getting Pretty Forgetful
In a clipped dialogue fragment Smith speaks of forgetfulness and careless habits, noting a mental lapse while discussing daily concerns with a companion. The exchange hints at memory strain and habit changes without full context or events.
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Smith
Watermelon a la Filipino and other notes from abroad
A humorous tale from New York Herald about a Filipino watermelon feast ending with a boiled melon and a panicked escape, followed by a Swiss meteorologist proposal to use defused munitions for science in definite timed detonations to aid physics and meteorology research.
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M. de Quervain
Zurich
Rohan Land & Cattle opens offices in Hartwick building
The Rohan Land and Cattle Co has opened offices on the second floor of the Hartwick building this week. An advertisement invites readers to view their large ad elsewhere in the paper.
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Rohan Land & Cattle Co
Hartwick Building
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Pohle
N. W. May
Frank Manion
Elkton
Meta Kyde
Lead
R. L. Cheney
H. A. Shafer
E. O. Roush
State Highway Department
Gem Theatre
O’neill
Ralph Vandercook
Fr. Pierre
S. D
Moline
Bee
Philip, S. D
F. A. Hart
Milesville
George Webbe
Ephc
P. E. Byrnes
Traveler
Luzon
Suoy
Southland
Tennessee
Express
New York Herald
Jack Peshek
C. E. McLane
McLane Hardware
China
John McGuire
Rapid City
Crooks
T. J. McGuire
Farmers’ Elevator
Peshek
McLane
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Bohan Land & Cattle Co
Philip, South Dakota
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