Local notes from Sioux Falls area and region
A bulging local roundup notes farm sales, travel and illness. J I Quinn visits Sioux City. Joe Stevenson reports selling 14 Portaon tractors locally. Ted Boechier returns from overseas with discharge. Miss McGuire visits, Scotland events teased. Postmaster Falkinberg travels to Sioux Falls on business. Scarlet fever in a child of Adolph Becker. thunderstorm noted. Gale and travel mentions include Ray Weather, Hobo transport rumors, and Navy housing talks. John Schmidt and Henry Wenzlaff buy three quarter sections near Scotland and plan to invest near Highmore. The sale yields large profits for Simantel heirs, while Mrs Keegan suffers smallpox illness and Mrs Landmann’s Wisconsin-based relatives arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Schmidt
Henry Wenzlaff
George Simantel
Simantele
Eee
Highmore
Carl Simantel
Kodak users cut finishing bill in half at The Photo Shop
Rilma developed 5¢ per roll prints any size so each. Address The Photo Shop Box 958 Sioux Falk S D.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KODAK
Rilma
Sioux Falk
Relp Wanted Carpenters
Two good carpenters wanted for steady work with good wages. Apply to Jacob Beuel, Beotland, D, phone number 4.
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Relp
Jacob Beueel
Beotland
Obituary for Mrs Carolina Landman Pioneer Resident
Mrs Carolina Landman dies at 62 after pneumonia. Immigrant from south Russia, pioneer in the area since 1873. Survived by children Dr G A Landmann Frieda Clara Bender Paul and six brothers and one sister. Funeral held at home with Rev Treick and Roaheill cemetery ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina Landman
Scotland
Paul
University At Lincoln
Neb
Mia
Clara Bender
Sutton
Mies Carolina Serr
South Russia
America
Paul Landmann
G. A. Landmann
Frieda
Sutton, Neb
Nicholas
Jacob P
Loup City
Henry
Philip
August
Christof
Johanna Lang
Alberta
Sher
Rev
Treick
The
Reformed Church
Roaehill
Totvns
Sudden Death Shocks Scotland After Dance Night
C A DeSilva dies at 35 after a dance with his wife. He collapsed at home hours after a late-night meal, possibly from heart strain or acute indigestion. Born in Iowa, he lived in Scotland, served as city marshal, and leaves a wife and children. Funeral planned for Scott’s Bluffs, Nebraska.
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Scotland
C. A. DeSilva
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Mr. Landman
Berry
Tyndall
Mr. de Silva
Iowa
Ft. Snelling
Ainsworth
Neb
Odd Fellows
Woodman Lodges
Scott
Rev
Langdon
Choirs Meet at Presbyterian for Decoration Day Rehearsal
Notice calls all church choirs to assemble at the Presbyterian church Friday evening May 16 at 8 o clock to practice for Decoration Day. The M E Ladies Aid will meet at Mrs. A W Sweet home Thursday afternoon May 15 with Committee No 4 to entertain. The mayor and city council thank the Citizen Republican for designating it as the official paper for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
M. E. Ladies’ Aid
A. W. Sweet
Citizen- Republican
Ancient actors well paid in Roman and modern times
A Buffalo Express report cites Robert Mantell tracing high actor salaries from Roscius earning about $160 daily in ancient Rome to modern stars. It notes Apollinaris at $20,000 per appearance, Terpinus and Diodorus at $10,000 each, and stars like Garrick earning $2,500 per night, with 19th century peers Mackready and Miss Ellen Tree at $125 per night.
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Robert Mantell
Buffalo Express
Roscius
Mantell
Cicero
Charlie
Vespasian
Marcellus
Apollinaris
Winter Garden
Father of
Waters
Ter- Pinus
Diodorus
David Garrick
Macready
Richelieu
Ellen Tree
Immunity in a Mule from a Doughboy Tale
An Alabama doughboy recalls a mule that caused trouble during wartime. He describes a finger bite, a pants kick, and a gas attack where he protected others by fitting gas masks, then leading the mule around a gas field for hours without harm to himself or his cats.
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Alabama
Campaign Against Coyotes Near Edmonton
In Alberta near Edmonton coyotes are the focus of a popular hunt drawing many motorists and horsemen. Ranchers plan to extend the campaign of extermination. Twenty five wolf hounds have been secured for drives as a half circle will close in on a river bank.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Flyabout and the changing pace of flirtations in transport
A nostalgic look at past loves and machines from buggy to motorcar to sea and air craft. The piece notes how a groomed boy’s best girl buggy gave way to the chummy roadster and then to a dream of flying boats and seaplanes as war production faded. It ends by suggesting planes as a gift for sons or daughters.
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New York
Ingalls Grass Eulogy Prefers Quiet Over War and Bloom
The passage lauds grass as nature’s forgiving monument, outlasting war’s scars, with lines on its resilience from May to spring renewal. It cites Ingalls’s classic grass meditation published in the Duluth Herald via Kansas Magazine, noting Senator Ingalls’s ownership at the time. The second fragment presents a children’s tale about a stuttering song titled “Katie,” recounted by Little Mary to her sister Margaret.
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John J. Ingalls
Duluty Herald
Kansas Magazine
Senator Ingalls
Katie
Mary
Ruth
Margaret
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Yankee Ring Circus
Fred Buchanan
Texas
Tommy
Irginia
van Hippodrome
Europe
White Sox
Tango Chief
Gov. Lee
Marshall Foch
Black Jack
Clemenc
Max Sabel
Lion Joori 'Tii Coor
Yankee Robinson
Lion
Fairyland
Count Shouwoloff
Plestina
Yankee Robinson Circus
Stecher
Caddock
Zbyazko
Lewis
Prestina
Vely
Mra
J. I. Quinn
Sioux City
Joe Stevenson
Ted Boechier
Tuesaday
G. Max
Draggist
Miss McGuire
Leaterville School
Moore
Mesno
D.C
Bond
Mipett
Mitchell
Secrvica
Ray
Engineers Department of the Navy
Hoboken
Trom
Falkinberg
Sioux Falls
Adolph Becker
W. A. Cobb
Buick
Mies Lona Lee
Miga Farrar
Ick
Ethel Herman of
W. C. Haynes
Wm. R Scott
State Sunday School Association
Sioux Falla
Miss Farrar
Yankton
Steele
Ghee Eels
Brown
Bye
Ankton
Miss Fatrac
Whela
Mike Keegan
Dr. Landmann
Wisconsin
Chris Bobler
Delmont
Ij Hy Behmidt
N. G. Bender
Theo, Griess
Harvard
South Dakole
Martha
Ingalls
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