St Paul completes waterworks doubling city supply
A sweep of Minnesota items reports St Paul finishing extensions that will double the city’s water supply. It notes missing youths Arthur Pratt aged 17 from Anoka and James O Reilly aged 55 from Red Wing, plus various crimes, trials, and local incidents across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Arthur Pratt
Anoka
Henry Berkhart
Minneola
Rochester
Alice Coon
Humbolt
Minneapolis
Little Falls, Mille Lacs and Superior
Theodore Anderson
Jacob Schrieber
Moorhead
Government
Washington, D. C
United States Army
Frank Sandees
Stillwater
Bavaria
James Reily
Red Wing
Stephen Newell
Justice Newell
Hastings
Numerous Dakota items span crime, fire and rail news
Reports from Grand Forks and nearby towns detail a fatality at the McClellan house, damage to Plymouth church, and various court actions. North Dakota wheat marketing, forgery confessions, prison sentences, and rail labor recruitment fill a broad page of local affairs with named places and people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Fox
McClellan
Grand Forks
Plymouth Church
Bismarck
Canada
Foothills
A. J. Mason
Fargo
Ferree
Hitchcock Artesian
North Dakota
Collet
Northern Pacific
Arthur
Jake
Templeton
Grand
Henry Melton
United States Grand Jury
Iowa Stories of Love, Death and Scandal Unfold in Remembrance
Iowa tales recount a web of affairs and misdeeds across towns and cities. Mary Hastings, Torrance, and Barton weave a tragic tale from Yale circles to Washington as a white dress and a fatal illness seal a doomed romance.
The Fragile Bubbles of Hopes and Dreams
A lyrical meditation on fragile hopes and fleeting loves. The speaker compares human longings to bubbles that rise and fade under rain and sun, capturing the transient nature of joy and expectation in a delicate, dreamlike tone.
Man reunites with long lost wife after 28 years
Michael Brennan, a St Louis veteran, travels from Montana to Helena seeking a cook and discovers his wife Mary, presumed dead, living under Brennan's surname. The couple had separated when Mrs. Brennan left St Louis in 1862 for Providence Rhode Island, later wandering to San Francisco and back through hardship. He had served in the 9th Missouri cavalry and endured wounds at Fayette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Mary Hastings
Torrance
R. T
Barton
John
Huntington
Mr. Huntington
Fred
Mary
John Torrance
Michael
Mary Brennan
Cork
Ireland
America
St. Louis
Brennan
9Th Missouri Cavalry
Fayette
Bill Anderson
Brennen
Red Mountain
Helena
Montana
Great Sky Survey Takes Shape Across Hemispheres
The Philadelphia Times notes an immense photographic project to chart the entire heavens. Planets and stars will be captured in tens of thousands of plates, with Southern Hemisphere observatories joining the effort to include the Southern Cross. A clock-driven telescope and vigilant astronomer ensure stars stay fixed during long exposures, aiming for a complete celestial chart with millions of precisely placed stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
The Teeth of Idiots Study on Dental Abnormalities
A New York Telegram report notes physicians observe a tendency for idiots to have dental imperfections and disease. Mme Sollier studied 100 random idiocy cases, finding varied lesions and conclusions that idiocy, with or without epilepsy, predisposes to developmental arrests and dentition anomalies, mainly affecting the second teeth rather than the first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Sollier
New York Telegram
Valuable San Francisco book records Chinese graves
In San Francisco a rare volume valued at $30,000 is claimed by the ex-superintendent of the cemetery who says it is his property, while the health officer and editorial writers contend the city owns the register of 3,000 Chinese graves. They urge prompt action to prevent loss pending a legal ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Griffin Rifles
Eau Clair
J. T. Barber
Gen. Griffen
Lieut
J. Horan
Elmer E. Stanton
Capt. McMaster
L.C. Burke
Diamond Bluff
Wis
Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad
Adel Station
Sheboygan County
Aleck Douglass
Clyman
Dodge County
F. L. Rourke
Centralia
Wm. Zimmerman
Chris Zweiger
St. Paul Road
Ripon
Wiliam Perkins
Thorpe
Wiliam Harte
Max
Wausau
Louis Molten
Waukesha
Racine
J. Cohen
Shore's Camp
Washburn
Frank Valley
Chippewa Falls
Duluth
John Wood
Paynette
Cream City
James Sanders
Steisr Bay
Peterson
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Colby House
Ashland
Chicago
The
DeMoines Register
Stelson
Stetson
Stelsons
Register
San Francisco
China
Wonders of the Human Heart Reveal Vast Circulation
A famed physiologist calculates the heart’s work to lift 120 tons in a day and, at 69 beats per minute with a 9 foot flow, the blood travels about 207 yards per minute. This implies 178 miles daily, 61,320 miles yearly, and 9,150,880 miles in 84 years, with roughly 2,869,776,000 heartbeats in a lifetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
A Curious Fish From Oakland Bay Captivates Fishermen
Peraccio, an Italian fisherman, hauled a brown eighteen inch fish from the bay in his seine yesterday. The creature shows an eyeless head and a body with a back coat that opens in a double flap, while its head bears several horns and feelers, a piscatorial curiosity to San Francisco anglers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Peraccio
Oakland
San Francisco Examiner
Confidence in Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
Manufacturers back the remedy with a money back guarantee if it does not cure liver blood or lung diseases. The claim covers pimples eruptions and scrofulous conditions as well as gland tumors and pulmonary issues. It promises cure in all forms if used perse veringly and timely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Meteoric fall near Mount Bullion spurs Alpine search
Genoa Nevada Courier reports residents of Alpine greatly alarmed by a vast meteor seen about Mount Bullion. The fireball was described as larger than Markleville courthouse and it cracked the earth with a cannonlike report. Locals comb surrounding hills seeking the aerolite, with sighting distances varying from five to ten miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Bullion
Markleville Court House
Alpine
Locaion
Genoa
Nev
Fort Worth Office Robbery At Union Depot Pacific Express
A person with a key to the door and a safe combination entered the Pacific Express office at the Union depot in Fort Worth Texas. The offender opened the safe and took $6 800 while leaving the scene without molestation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Express Company
Union Depot
Fort Worth
Tex
A Rainy Streetcar Scene of Comical Conscience
In a crowded streetcar a sweet young girl offers her seat to a man who remains seated beside a hollow-eyed consumptive. She sits and drenches the burly man with cold rain water, leaving the passenger wet while the consumptive stays dry and content, hanging on a strap.
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Northwestern States
Fred Douglas
Botleff Lunde
Wanamongo
Lumbrota
W. H. Adamson
Jack Jardine
Northern Pacific Railway
Detroit
Martin Anderson
Rush City
Fishlake Town
Anderson
Minnie Brown
Maine
Otter Tail County
Fergus Falls
Fergus
John Aldrich
Thompson
Koss
C. M. Corliss
Supreme Court of
Duchess County
N. Y
Territory of Dakota
Supreme Court
United States
North
South Dakota
Young
United States Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Christian Mahler
Eureka
Muchler
Knute Olson
Olson
Jamestown
Minnehaha County
Miner County
Fort Meade
Fort Leavenworth
Miss Tart
White Bear
Minn
Dr. Romans
Yankton
Newcastle
Rapid City
Northwestern Railroad Company
Sturgis
Mark Edwards
Roanoke
Lake
Kampeska
Richard Swit
Alexandria
Sam Gabrielson
Jamney Hoyt
Aberdeen
Jim Patterson
Madison Sentinel
C. L. Alexander
Willard Lauglin
Howard
Rasmus Hansen
Draminen
Haneen
Chas. H. Noyes
F. W. Barker
Florence
Clayton Noyes
Door County
Midland Railway Company
Green Bay
Todd
Thompson- Houston Electric Company
Holmes
Fargo Board of Trade
Traill
Weir's
Walsh
Dakota
Missouri
Wisconsin
Gardiner Morrison
la Crosse County
Onalaska
M. J. McElroy
Eau Claire
Fred Berg
Nancy Ryan
Tomah
Iowa
John Thompson
Dubuque
New York
Frank P. Toll
American Express Company
Clinton
Traer
R. M. Parson
Wall Lake
Sitter
Sac City
Fonda
Antietam
Willmore
Vinton
Harbolt
Burlington
Prairie Creek
Cedar Rapids
George Lewis
al Weaver
Marshalltown
Kate Ryan
Alvina Thiesen
Kis Kadden
Bellevue
Colorado
Will Pattee
Bremer County
Elect Boies
Waterloo
Capt
Pattee
Jennie Anderson
Krebs Bros
Cedar Rapide
Tama County Soldiers’ Monument
D. E. Gleason
Council Bluffs
Geo H. Champ
Champ
Gleason
George Miller
Lyman Allen
Fort Dodge
Billings
Mont
William
A. A. Noys
Steamboat Rock
Liverpool
Eng
Iowa Falls
John Koykendall
Mary Bradford
Rockdale
A. W. Jones
Henry Crowder
Fort Madison
Keambeon
Crowder
Santa Fe
Des Moines College
Michael Clary
Clary
Lawler
Chickasaw County
Crary
Phenix
Frederick Barton
George Huntington
Fred Barton
R. T. Kenyon
Mt. Hope
Yale
Miss Hastings
Reynolds
Mr. Torrence
Providence
Miss Hasting
Terrence
Mexico
Enegee
Gareties
Kenyon
Washington
Mary Kenyon
Bubbles
Zephyr
Cecil Lorraine
White
Aldershot
England
Rome
Youth’s Companion
Boston
Maas
Messrs. Kendler
Vienna
Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Hood
C. J. Hood &Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
South Georgia
Athens
Castoria
Jacobs Oy
Mark
Washington, Tex
Ty St. Jacobs
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore, Md
Sigkheadache Carters
Attler Pills
Carter Medicine CO
Tutt
Pare
Ely Broth
Warren Street
Bradfield
Ake Gaunt
Maceo
Atlanta
Ernest
Catun
Boriaoi
Biston
Chemical Co. Cinzinne
T.f Obio
G.h.ingravam
M. D
Amsterdam
D. KR. Dyche & Co
Druggista
T. M. Roberts
Nicollet Ave
Loomis & Nyman
Tiffin
Ohio
N-W.n. U
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