Minneap olis Musings On Water Airships And Bills
A column parodies city life with jokes about river water and airships. It notes the legislature adjourns next Wednesday and comments on state expenditures. Willis J. Holmes pleads guilty to bribing an alderman and pays a 5000 dollar fine. President McKinley forms a monetary commission. Charley Towne is judged unimportant by some. Gov. Cleveland seeks 100000 for Anoka insane asylum construction.
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Willis J. Holmes
Cloven
Anoka
Brainerd and area news briefed across several towns
The Little Falls Transcript notes Miss Jennie Hesse of Brainerd speeding with friends in that city. Sheriff Erickson of Brainerd inspected mill property in town for the sawing season. C. E. Peabody, livestock dealer, sought cattle for Brainerd market. P. H. Newman opened a Brainerd branch sale stable. R. S. Holden plans Staples News in Staples. Anoka officials’ salaries listed. Mr. Bowman and family move to Jenkins on Brainerd & Northern Railroad. W. E. Seelye sells Rainy Lake county mining property for 21000 to a syndicate.
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Little Falls
Anoka
N. R. Bowman
Culdrum
Jenkins
Crow Wing County
Brainerd & Northern
Bowman
Duluth Herald
W. E. Seelye
Brainerd
Rainy Lake County
St. Cloud
Seelye
G. Gilman
Jno. Gilman
St. Cloud Journal Press
Examination for West Point cadet from Sixth Minnesota district
Judge Morris announces a concurrent exam in St. Gloud Minnesota at the city schools office to select a cadet and an alternate for the United States Military Academy at West Point. Candidates must be 16 to 21 years old residents, unmarried, fit in height and health, literate, and able to pass a mental and physical test. The best examiner becomes cadet, second best becomes alternate. The process occurs Wednesday May 12 between 9 30 a m and 5 30 p m in the High School building.
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Morris
Minnesota
St. Gloud
S. S. Parr
United States Miliary Academy
West Point
Military Academy
United States
Seelye sells Rainy Lake property to syndicate for 24000
W E Seelye of Brainerd travels to Duluth and Toronto to arrange sale of Seine River Rainy Lake holdings to a Duluth and New York syndicate for 24000 with 2000 down and 4000 later, balance in four months. Purchasers plan development amid reports of rich ore and gold yields. Seelye aims to develop other mineral holdings independently and predicts rising interest in the new gold fields.
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W.E. Seelye
Duluth
Rainy Leake
Duluth Herald
Herald
W. E. Seelye
Brainerd
Seine River
Rainy Lake
New York
Seelye
Toronto
St. Louis
Canada
United States
Brainerd Brewing Co. acquired by Hoffmann and Boppel
Frederick Hoffman and Edward Boppel take control of the Brainerd Brewing plant and will assume charge May 1. Hoffman plans to move his family to Brainerd and may return to the city someday. he brings extensive local property interests and years of brewing experience.
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Little Falls
Transcript
Frederick Hoffman
Edward Boppel
Brainerd Brewing Company
Hoffman
Brainerd
Fourth Street
Mr. Hoffman
Red Wing
Boppel
Tax Judgment Sale Announcement in Crow Wing County
Tax judgment sale ordered by the District Court for Crow Wing and Cass counties Minnesota dated March 22 1897 seeks delinquent real estate taxes and penalties remaining unpaid as of January 1897 under applicable statutes. The sale action proceeds under real estate tax enforcement.
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Crow Wing
Her Last Dance A Widow Sails From Sorrow To Stage
A despairing widow, mortgage‑burdened and penniless after her husband’s death, turns to dance to support herself and her child. She rises through trials to perform, but illness strikes as her daughter Maizie nears death, and the mother dances one final time by the bedside before both she and her child die.
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Cousin Selina
Selina
Eles
Boudoir
Senvarsal
Mhigin
Maizie
Martha
Maisie
Mumsie
Mumaie
Mumasie
German Report on Waterproof Tent Crossing Experiments
A German contemporary describes successful river crossings using waterproof tents. Tents are laid spread on ground then covered with straw or leaves, articles placed atop, and rolled into a bale. The bundles float due to trapped air in the packed package.
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Will Furnis
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Monetary Commission
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WM. Dodd
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Thompson & Gruenhagen
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Laurel Streat
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Monarch Cycle CO
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