14 Aug 1885
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Newspaper
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
Location
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1885
Page
1
A long list of brief items reports life expectancy in Russia, a Minnesota court house plan, U S student totals, Arab beauty myths, Grant's birthplace windows, ragged schools in England, and widespread weather and accident notes. Also noted are rail and streetcar debates, Dakota population shifts, a mine accident tally, and various legal and local notices with terse summaries and names.
Reports from Philadelphia and surrounding towns detail trotting heats between Phallas and Harry Wilkes at Belmont Park with Wilkes taking two heats and Phallas one in a new purse event. Incidents include a fatality at a spectator event in St Louis and gunfire during a domestic dispute with a bystander killed.
The fragmented OCR notes report varied items from Spain and the United States including deaths in Spain from a disease, a mother's death in Pittsburgh, a Dakota cattle rancher, a divorce scene dating to 1863, remarks about Postmaster General Wilan, Sarah Bernhardt earnings, burial practices in Paris, an Indian leader nickname for Sherman, a Turner county fossil find, and multiple political and geographic notes. The text also mentions a Montana murder reward, British wars, New Mexico area estimates, a doctor in Watertown seeking recognition, earth’s land area, population density comparisons, and a Wahpeton dispatch describing a severe northwest hall storm impacting Richland and Sargent counties with substantial crop loss and no confirmed fatalities.
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