Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-11-09


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For wager OF $4,000 Viscouut and
NiscolIntrss Raoul dc Gruard have been
making q honeymoon tour of the world
on foot. They left Paris on May ~.
travelling 1880 miles on foot. They
walked through England, Norway.
Switzerland. Siberia, Turkey the
United States, Spain aud Italy TheN
hope to reach Paris at the beginning
% next month. This singular bel is
held hy some members OF the Geo
graphical society ia Parts
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III your dogs are troubled with hegs
a very simple way ~ get rid uf the
pest is 70 provide beds Of fresh cedar
shavings, or better cedar excelsior in
the kennels or wherever the dogs sleep.
The scent is not at an unpleasant TO
the dogs, bui is abhorrent 10 the iieas
When dogs coat gets thoroughly
scented not only do the tlcas leave him
while asleep, but they win NOT jump
upon him when hc is out in the sauds
during the dHy
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Messrs Harlaud and Wolf shin-
builders OF Belfast ireland are 60
launch next mogth a new bow portion
for the White star liner Suevic. which
ran ashore near the Lizard ON the
Cornwall coast good two-thrds OF
the vessel was saved and taken tu
southampton for repair Now the new
bow which has been built for her is to
be towed round from Belfast TO South
ampt1n. and the snip is 90 be rendered
once more complete
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Covering a long abandoned wen tu
BosWorth street, Boston. was an old
grayestone which workmau uncarthed
while cXcaYatiUg for q water pipe ii
bears the following inscription Will
liam Trow son oil Wiuam and Eliza
beth IroW, Decd Aug 27th 1924. Aged
year ard Mo- The stone has
border Of aCauthue leaves. and at the
top The traditional cherub'a head
hanked by Wings aiI neatly carved.
In the Rreisblatt newspaper pub
lished at Hoechst mean Wiesbadeu
Germany there recently appeared the
following advertisements. Can anyone
FAVOR me with the names of the ball
loonists whc, when passing over the
village of Ried. last Thursday evening,
dropped bag Of ballast down my
chimney and completely ruined a fruit
tart which / was cooking Julia
Schmidt, "A Britzeigrasse. Ried'
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The registration IN the Twenty-ninth
election district Of the sixteenth as
sembly district, Brooklyn was com.
pleted this morning when the official
announcements WIS made chat John
LeaTy am emplaye of the park depart.
ment and the only resident OF the dis.
tfict had appeared before the inspec.
tors and presented his name The reg.
istration OF MI Leary's name win cost
the city aboul $500.
Last winter l got tweipes foxes and
haven't kept any account of the pine
snakes get 80 cents piece for them
Two years ago | got 20 cents a foot
hut they have been so plentiful thar the
price has gone down. | have never
found what people do with the snakes
they buy from me Snakes are yerv
destruetiye: hey viii eat as many as
lhree rabbits ~ time, says a writer IN
Fur News.
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What Il probably the cheapest rate
FOR sea voyage ever offered Is tbat
now made available by the govern
iheht OF New south Wales. Australia
10 young women who are prepared tc
so out to the colony to undertake DO
mestic service. The charge To these
elnlgfants FOR tae journey from Eng.
iald 70 sydha3, l2.oeO miles. is SIS.
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priest has been arrested at Agin.
court on The Franco Belgian frontier
for smuggling. His luggage was run ~
.iSars and when he was stripped hc
was found 20 be wearing around his
body a layer Of tobacco and cigars oyet
~ iheh IN thickness. The man was
clothed in tobacco and 1000 cigars
were taken from the layer.
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This puppy learned Esperanto IA Two
months When its mistress said "Diru
'bonNoiu csay piease'D. 1t barked.
ana the added word "aute" ('.loudlvth
made II increase the sound. Al the
command Donu manon" fshake
hands ,. II gave It's paw. AT the com
Inand, "Petu, IL stood on it's hind legs
and begged
The hopes OF a hair century have
failed Of realization among the upper
classes OF India, the oxford and Can-
bridge mission not having i single con-
cert in several years. while the col
ieGe az Madras. the finest missionary,
in that country. has garh
cred only mere handful
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ltaiy is eagerly awaiting the result
OF the experiments being made 81 liz
swamps with the Australian malaria
iish GpseEdo-mugil signifier). which
thrives In shallow water and lives
chiefly on The larvae Of mosquitoes.
Fhe government imported a few thou-
sand Of them in June.
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OF the 2QG delegates who under
conklin's lead. fought like giants fort
2 third term for Grant IN the memoir
abie convention Of 1880 there are still
living only seventy three. Il
III
Road Armundsen, the Arctic explor
er, who recently made his way through
tne NoilhWest passage. has left chris
tsAnia tor New York city where he
st lao 4ssYa-
of the Geological society.
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Over coo specimens az rare Ecvpfian
FOSSILS are being prepared for exhibi
fioh by the experts Of the Mtipeu,,, of
Natural history, New York The speci-
mems are the product Of an expeditton
nnanced by Morris X. Jessup
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The bicycle craze has at last reached
the Mexican city of Vera Cruz. There
= also 2 motor cycle IN town,
Italian newspapers are once moro
discussing the question as to who In
vented oil painting. Most OF them side
with Nasari, who maintained that Jan
Van Eyck was the first to use oils as
q meas Of fxing pigments.
Miss Eleanor Robson, the actress has
bought 8 town house at 3CG West sey-'|
sf'ts -sNNEitn street, adjoining the cor
ner OF West End avenue Ii is a four-,
story brownstone dwelling. Miss Rob
son viii occupy the house this fan.
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The population of Canada has in
creased u per cent. IN six years.
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London, according 10 the census has
JUST passed "s-- 100000 aiS''