Prosperity in Northwest Predicts South Dakota Wealth Boom
A report from Mitchell South Dakota notes the state leads in per capita wealth with corn as a future king crop. It cites rising bank deposits, cattle ranching strength, and large local projects like the Corn Palace exhibit and new city hall, library, hotel, and streets under construction. The legislature plans to submit a 1904 November measure to voters.
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Northwest
Michell
South Dakota
Dakota
Wile
Serath Dakota
South Daina
Dewnpaper
Chiengy
Minauder
Paul Ry
Missouri River
Devantonally
Pew
MOE
Porkape
Bank Depos
Sooth Dakota Baoks
Black Hills
Lee & Prentie
Vermiliion
Lee & Prentis
Chicago
Sioux City
Yankton
Huroo
Corn Palace
Mitchof
St Louis
Mitchell Corn Palace
St Loure
Mitchell
Carnegie
Inez
Teung Married Citizens Debate Ages for Test One Quarrel
A local Memphis telegram noting Te Bree in the Te Bree region discusses marriage age rules and a planned test related to quarrels among married people. The report mentions Te Bree and Memphie in connection with the conversation.
The Handicaps of Agata Dy 2 and Me and Valititrica
A critical satire on the so called Invalides class. The piece derides sickly men who are healthy in body yet practice a fashionable, languid invalid persona. It mocks pills and patent medicines and contrasts desk workers who pretend illness with robust laborers. It concludes with a twist on the old rhyme about health and wealth.
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Cigar Store
Offecitie
New York
Pharmactet
The Yankee Cook Works Small Kitchen Wonders
A New York Sun tour of a cheap restaurant kitchen reveals how a single plain Yankee cook can transform bones and scraps into soup by mixing ingredients from multiple pots. With a few strokes of a wand like a carving knife he creates roasts, fish dishes, and desserts from a simple joint, showcasing versatile, economical culinary skill.
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New York Sun
Prolonging Life With Diet and Disease Theory
Collier's Weekly discusses Dr Elie Metchnikoff's view that old age is a medical problem, not fate, caused by internal predators. He favors dietary reform of less meat and more dairy to extend active years, imagining life up to 90 with work and leisure then.
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Elie Metchnikoff
Pasteur Institute
Matchniket
United States
England
Collier's Weekly
Doan's Kidney Pills Claim Kidney Cure in Urbana Case
Veteran Joshua Heller of 706 South Walnut Urbana Illinois reports repeated kidney trouble relief from Doan's Kidney Pills first tried in 1899 after visiting Cunningham Bros drug store in Champaign. He endorses the remedy again and notes past benefits including back pain and shoulder blade discomfort. Free trial offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY with medical advice available and pills priced at 60 cents per box from druggists nationwide.
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Bright
Doan
Joshua Heller
South
Walnut Street
Urbana
Cunningham Bros
Champaign
Dean
Heller
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Bufalo
N.Y
Leaves and wind in a George MacDonald verse
A fragmentary poetic passage attributed to George MacDonald depicts a leaflike boat blown by a strife filled wind toward the sea and a future, blending imagery of marriage, longing, and longing for release as the speaker seeks union of soul and mind.
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Dean
George MacDonald
Eighteen Inch Rat Guards Breidablik Visit
An 18 inch long rat aboard the Norwegian steamship Breidablik, pet of Captain Paulsen, greets all visitors including customs officials. Boarding Officer Rauch had his manifest checked by the rodent, which forced the official to pause work and negotiate terms with the ship’s famed pet.
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Breidabiik
Paulsen
Breidablik
Rauch
Lamar
Philadelphia
Reward for cure appeals to medical fraternity
A garbled ad touts Hall's Calarea Cure claiming it acts on blood to destroy disease foundations and restore strength. It offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and names CHENEY & CO. of Toledo as sellers, with claims of widespread efficacy and foolproof results.
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Aow
Catarrisie He & Coumlimkoual Discate
Hall
Cheney
Toledo
Druertata
How Long Mosquitoes Live in Winter
Scientist William Lyman Underwood reports mosquitoes persist through winter in barns and cellars or hollow trees. They sleep through cold, then revive with warmth, remaining active as warmer weather returns, often seen before snow fully melts.
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William Lyman Underwood
Bolence Monthly
Lawyer E B Taylor Celebrates Fifty-Eighth Year Practice
Warren attorney E B Taylor former congressman who succeeded Garfield in the old Nineteenth district marks fifty eight years in legal practice. Report says no Ohio lawyer matches such lengthy active service.
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Berves Long
E. B. Taylor
Warren
James A. Garfield
Congress
Ohio
Paris Slang Word Emerges After Pope Leo's Death
The New York Tribune notes Parisian slang arising from Pope Leo XIII’s death. A policeman becomes a camer lengo or cog ne, with a linked hammer gesture, prompting street quarrels and police caution. The motto remains When in doubt arrest your man.
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Leo
Paris
Young Duke of Leinster One of Ireland’s Youngest Peers
A 16 year old English nobleman, head of the Fitzgerald family and grandnephew of Lord Edward, is noted as the youngest duke in England. His school years at Eton showed athletic promise but health issues, including consumption, threaten his future. In Franksville Wis a local remedy tale reports Dodd's Kidney Pills curing Mrs. Louis Markison of female weakness after long suffering.
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Duke of Leinster
Ireland
Edward
Kingdom of Ireland
Irian
Fitzgerald
Emerald Isle
Eton
Franksville
Wis
Louis Markison
Pointers on Trousers and Seasonal Pressing Practices
A tailor explains that summer trousers are pressed with the ends turned up to avoid catching on low shoes, while in winter they are pressed turned down. He notes the upturned hems keep trousers from touching and snagging in summer footwear, which is the main reason for the habit.
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Agata Dy
Valititrica
St.Jacobs Oil
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