Rail disaster and town news from a late prairie newspaper
A Chatsworth Illinois railroad accident kills 118, with hundreds injured as a burning bridge collapse tears through a 960 passenger excursion train. Survivors assist, while a grieving husband and wife perish, and four baby girls born near New York Mills gain county care amid Finnish families.
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Chatsworth
Ill
Toledo, Peoria & Western Road
Niagara
Peoria
New York Mills
Fergus Falls Journal
Jung
Berthold
Perham
New York
Blowers
Blomberg
Lax
Matilda
Helmi
Catherine
Ida
BIG MILL STRIKE IN CROOKSTON
Two hundred mill workers in Crookston demand shorter hours and a ten hour day. The mill has closed as workers press the proprietor to bow to time, prompting a large scale strike and disruption of operations. The Telegram reports the conflict as it unfolds. The unionized labor action reflects wage and schedule pressures in the local industry and portends broader labor tensions.
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Crookston
Walker
Railroad Notes and Returning Troops Move to Work
Fifty men came home from the front on Conductor Copeland's train on Monday and an extra packed train followed. It is said these men will promptly join the B N W workforce. Rumors say iron may extend on the B N W toward Leech Lake before snow flies.
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Copeland
Leech Lake
Crookston Journal
Indian Trouble At Aitkin Linked To Whisky Jealousy
Report from the Globe cor respondent describes the Kimberly camp incident near Aitkin where Jordan shot a man after a quarrel over his wife. Mis-co-kin-ewe then killed Jordan’s child with a rifle seized from Zayzah. A council at Merregor deemed the deaths even. Sheriff Markham later arrested two half breed prostitutes. officials say the uprising talk is exaggerated. The Indians, Mississippi band, feared arrest and hanging, with whisky traders shaping their views.
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Zho-wansh
Jordan
Zhowaush
Jorlan
Dabmaig
Sandy Lake
Zayzah
Winchester
Mis-co-kin-ewe
Merregor
Markham
Aitkin
United States
Georgia Newspaper Rules and Rumor Slips From Brainerd
Fragmented clipping notes baseless gossip about whisky shipments to fans and local officers’ cooperation with federal agents. It quotes the Arkansas Traveler on editorial rules about advertising legal notices and obituaries, lampooning newspaper practices.
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United States Marshal’s Office
Brainerd
Aitkin
Globe
Georgia
F. Middleton Pryor
Arkansas Traveler
Bizarre Bass Bait Snakes As Old Timers Claim
A veteran fisherman touts a bizarre method using a freshly killed snake tail as bait to catch bass, claiming rapid bites and multiple fish before the tail regenerates. He later learns the tail regenerates with cosmoline aiding healing, prompting caution to readers. Separately a Chicago Tribune note mocks sensational reporting after a Chicago versus Detroit game.
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Ireland
Boschee'S German Syrup Promises Lung Relief
An 19th century style advertisement extols Boschee's German Syrup as the best blood preparation for lung conditions. It claims to clear airways and passages from congestion, coughs, and breathing obstructions, urging readers to buy a 75 cent bottle from any druggist and rely on its efficacy.
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Boschee
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Tenn
R.E. Warner
Jesup
the Swadere Co
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6Th Street Grocer
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