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Monday, February 26, 2018

1918 Car List from Willard Batteries

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The Fairfield Auxiliary newspaper was running an ad in February, 1918 for W. A. Lewis & Co. who must have been the owners of the Willar...

March 1943 - 50 Clay County Men Inducted

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March 1943 saw the army build-up call for 50 men from Clay County. In an article at the same time, an Army official was quoted as saying th...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

1993 Spring Ranch, Tom Jones and Elizabeth Taylor

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This is kind of a fun thing we ran across while writing the CCN column. Spring Ranch was getting ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary o...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The Invention of the IRS Form 1099

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Lincoln had implemented a federal income tax in 1861 to pay for the Civil War and an income tax was collected during the 1890's. Th...
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World War I Sacrifices in Clay County

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County newspapers played a big role in preparing citizens for the sacrifices needed to fight World War I and to sustain support for the war...

Winning WWI with Chickens

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This Harvard business aimed to win the war with chickens. The major incubator business in Clay County was the Old Trusty Company in ...

Why Towns Grow

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This article appeared in The Clay County News on January 14, 1993, an except from the Freeman (South Dakota) Courier from about one year ea...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

The King Newspapers in Clay County 1946-1968.

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This article appeared in The Clay County News on January 25, 1968 marking the anniversary of the King Newspapers in the county. H. C. K...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Sutton Register newspaper vanishes - 1942

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Multiple newspapers in a town was common in the early days. Sutton lost that distinction 75 years ago this week when Ronald Furse of The Su...

Last Mail Train in Clay County - 1967

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The Burlington railroad played a big part in the siting and the development of Sutton. Mail service and passenger service were crucial to...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Letter from Harvard Man Gassed in WWI

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We included this item in our column for the December 13th issue of The Clay County News with the note that we'd have the complete artic...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Lyric Theater went dark, 50 years ago

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From The Clay County News, December 14, 1967:
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1942 9-State Blackout Test

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Nighttime bombers posed a huge threat to Britain and their answer to protect cities was to institute "blackouts" to hide the citi...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Donald Burns wounded in Africa - 1942

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Donnie Burns of Sutton took a bullet in the arm in action along the Moroccan coast north of Casablanca. He was with a crew of five Coast G...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

1942-1950 Sutton Wedding Clippings

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The recent Shirley Wach donation included a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Sutton weddings from about 1942 - 1950. The note insi...