Indian treaty scope eyed in Dakota negotiations
A Dakota delegate proposes amending the act to strike out detailed provisions on how Indian ration and annuity titles are obtained, allowing opening of the Sioux treaty lands after passage. the amendment would remove consent requirements and move to direct opening. The Senate and House actions, including tariff talk and direct tax bills, are noted with votes and committee moves through Dec 5 to Dec 11.
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Gifford
Dakota
Sryate
Farwell
Veme Court
United States
Nator Jones
Arkansas
Fford
John H King
Mid City
Kleiner
Sioux Commission
Congress
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Berry
Senate
West
Sherman
House
Hope
Ilinois
Allen
Isissippi
Hie
Pardon Darwin Plans Skating-Rink Bargain With Joel Merritt
Asa Darwin faces hard winter as his daughter Pardon refuses to sell the family farm and instead forms a partnership with Joel Merritt to fix up the skating rink on Deep Lake. Joel proposes marriage in a wave of hopeful romance as the sisters navigate misfortune and pride.
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Mr. Etting
John James
Ardon
Pardon
Fanny
Squire Etting
James
Merritt
Joel Merritt
Joel
Old Sorrel
Darwin
Vardon
Deep Lake
Joe
Asa Darwin
Migration drives party shifts as western growth swells voter base
The York Tribune notes eight year population surge, rail expansion, and migration drawing about 1.2 million youths east and west of the Mississippi. It estimates 3.5 million new residents across western states and territories, with Republicans gaining in older states and new regions.
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York Tribune
Missippi
Isouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Xas
trans-Mississippi
Mississippi
Oregon
California
Caloio
Kansas
Nebraska
Minneta
Doctor cites hysteria mimicry as cure for coughing malady
Dr Richardson reports a case where a young woman copied a consumptive patient’s paroxysms for two years, leading friends to fear consumption though lungs were clear. She suddenly recovered, shown to have hysteria of a peculiar form. He believes this insight helps arrest the illness.
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Dr. Richardson
M. L. Holbrook
M. D
Tragic Shootings and Robbery Attempt Reported Across States
A boy in Helena Montana killed Willie Salter aged fourteen when a target gun discharged at close range. In Crawford county Iowa constables fatally wounded fugitive William Hunter during a pursuit of his wife, amid lynching threats. At Arlington hotel Washington a man named J B Bock was caught robbing Mrs James Brown Potter’s room with over $1000 in jewels found on him. Nelson Sorenson a Northern Pacific laborer was forced to jump from a thirty foot trestle near Livingston Montana as a train approached. He sustained serious injuries and was taken to Livingston for treatment.
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Asa Darwin
Pardon
Mr. Darwin
Father
Jones
Darwin
John James
Tim Parsons
Fanny
Cross
Squire Etting
Helena
M. T
Willie Salter
William Hunter
Vail
Crawford County
Iowa
Hunter
Arcadia
J. B Bock
Arlington Hotel
Washington
James Brown Potter
Potter
Nelson Sorenson
Northern Pacific
Livingston
Montana
German Princess Sophia to wed Greek king's son
London letters note Princess Sophia preparing in modern Greek and sending a congratulatory letter to her future father in law on Greece's king's twenty fifth year. The king, a Dane, is criticized as frugal, leading Greeks to favor his resignation in favor of the spending son.
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London
Pittsburg
Sophia
Greece
George
Lack of Taste in Visiting Historic Tombs
A Boston Courier piece laments tourists leaving visiting cards on graves and busts in Westminster Abbey and Longfellow’s tomb near Colorado Springs. It condemns the practice as egregious vanity and a flagrant display of poor taste.
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Longfellow
Westminister Abbey
H.H
Colorado Springs
Boston Courier
Feast for the Saints Meets Dinner Mix Up
A Boston ministers association held a dinner at a hotel and discovered they had been served a later meal by mistake. They calmly accepted the extra courses, paid their bill, and left the banquet hall to let the other party settle with the caterer.
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Boston
Comic Verses and Anecdotes from a Public Fair
A collection of light pieces and quips from a western church fair and periodicals. Jests cover a pastor’s testimonial, a nurse and doctor exchange, royal banter about Kate and abdication, bargain hunting, a misperceived marriage, a boy’s disobedience, a clergyman’s unfinished sermon, bear tale banter, and Dr. Franklin’s misread almanac anecdote with a note sold later for twenty dollars.
Horrible Premature Burial Story From Volhynia
A peasant wife in Volhynia near Austria was buried in a coma while expecting a child. Roused by a large sod striking her coffin, she begged for rescue as villagers blamed spirits and planned to stake her body to prevent nocturnal wandering. The pope ordered disinterment but it was too late.
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Russia
E. P. Poe
Volhynia
Austria
Konstantinoff
Mir
Baltimore’s playful tongue twisters charm readers
A column praises Peter Piper and a parade of tongue twisters as curious tests of speech. It notes celebrated phrases like a peck of pickled peppers and other whimsical lines such as Gaze on the gay brigade and the sea ceaseth. The piece names examples including Say, should such a shapely sash, and Sarah in a shawl spread.
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Baltimore News
Peter Piper
Grimes Jim
Sarah
How Do you Part Your Hair From the San Francisco Call
A humorous dialogue shows a reporter asking a tensorial artist about hair partings. The barber notes most people part on the left due to habit, tracing the pattern to mothers parting their children's hair from the right hand, shaping the lifelong habit.
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San Francisco
Brooklyn boy’s Bible reading prank ends in lesson
A six year old in Brooklyn was punished by his mother to sit in a high chair for an hour. A visitor asked if he was reading about a misbehaving boy. The boy replied he was reading about God who minds his own business.
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Brooklyn
America
God
Treasury irregularity linked to missing twenty hundred dollars
A report from Washington notes a treasury department mishap tied to the disappearance of 10 meat sheets of legal tender, each sheet with four five dollar notes totaling 200 dollars. The item cites various unrelated quotes and ads embedded in the snippet.
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Treasury Department
Washington
Calumet & Hecla Mine Fire Flares Up Anew
Smoke pours from the Calumet and Hecla shaft with rising bottom temperature signaling possible spread. Investigators note air currents moving through adjacent shafts as the fire flames continue. Company president A Gassiz offers a ten thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arsonists culprit.
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Calumet & Hecla
A. Gassiz
Calumet & Heela
The Youth's Companion Advertisement Offer
The Youth's Companion is a welcome weekly in over 400000 families and trusted for safe pure and entertaining content. New subscribers paying 1.75 dollars now receive free weekly issues through January 1 1889 and a full year from that date. Sample copies are free. Also notes a Housekeepers advertisement in the paper. William Weaver of Durbin Dakota a leading Cass county farmer began seeding December 6 with five drills and plans 300 acres seeded by Saturday night at speed as weather allows.
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The
Youth's Companion
Boston
Mass
William Weaver
Durbin
Dakota
Cass County
Viola Fuller Minez
Minneapoli
Leace
Henry Ward Beecher
Juliet Carson
Julia Mills Dunn
F. M. Bevne Lyra M. Niles
Montsie Moore
Alice M. Crockett
Correi
Avo
Forey
Hasan
Kansas
Tenn
Fia Hammer
J. W. Hale
Janesville
J. C. Harmon
Conway
Greenwood
Miss
Chas. Spading
St. Joseph
Mich
Minnearous
Minn
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Vance
der. G
Secretary of State
Finance Committee
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Dingley
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Michigan
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Tennessee
Minnesota
Moses Prosser
Cleveland
Mankato
Chippewa Falls
Winona
Brainerd Co-Operative Mercantile Company
Albert Smith
Red Wing
Wisconsin
William Lassinger
St. Peter
Ed Greenbush
D. J. Cogan
Sauk Center
M. J. O'Leary
Harvey Perry
Kasota
Rochester
F. W
Pitcher
Joseph Casper & Son
Manitoba
Conrad Wormald
Albany
Stearns County
Wormald
Amarried
St. Cloud Normal School
August
Peter Anderson
Willmar
Huron
E. Nyquist
J. Sayer
Claude van Buren
New York Mills
Allea
Wis
Dennis Shean
Waseca
Mr. Shean
Mclenney
Henry Alexander
Lycurgus Thornton
Severance
A. R. Pfau
Hamilton
Alexander
Cook
Rockford
Hn L. Dufrane
Rockford Tlery Company
Nellie Depuy
Dufrane
John
Kate
Victoria
New York Sun
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Mary
Boston Transcript
Willie
Stapleford
Boston Traveler
Wal
Puck
John Bernard
Franklin
Charles Lamb
Coleridge
Philadelphia
Salvation Oil
Pierre Toulon
Cuaco BS Oif
Mark
Remsoyepain
Chas. A. Vogeler
Baltimore, Md
SWZ
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Golf Proprietors and Manufactersrs
Gen. Boulanger
Adame Boulanger
John Dein
Central Park
Michael Hintzki
Casper J. Hintzki
Milwaukee
Tupadel
West Prussia
State Department
Conrad Burk
Smaler
For & General
J.P. Allen
St. Paul
Louis Eishman
Enrror
P. O
Pete Nodrens
H. G. Root
M. C. Pearl St
New York
Parise
Scacrutée
Cuticura
Otter Druc Inp Curmical Co
Castoria
New York City
Omaha
Woodstock, Minn
Johnson & Co
B. F. Johnson &Co
Main St
Richmond
Paine 'S
Wells, Richardson & CO
Burlington, Vt
Paine
Samuel Hutchinson
South Cornish
N. H
Elizaveth C
Quechec
Tut
Tutt
DE. F. B. Gulley
Milwaukee, Wis
Brewster Safety Belnholder CO
Holly, Rich
Giek Co
North
Chicago
Rators
O'Farggen
Atty At Law
Corporal Tanner
Mark Twain
Library of Humor
Gen. Logan
Elaine
Jack & Co
Koliding
Minneapolis
H. M. Agnew
Sabin
Greenville
Ohio
Darke County
Carter
Carter Medic
Sma
Ely
Evy Bros
Warren St. N.Y
Scott
Cathorsia Society
Ron Tor
Bradstreet Thurber & Co
Ney Advanc Bentennial
Cincinnati
Providence
Bridgeport
Hartford
New Haven
Worcester
BIC
Boston Clothing Sto
Colburn S
M. W. Dunhams Garlawn Farm
Brilliant
W. Dunham
Wayne
Illinois
N.W. Rybet
Turmer
Ditson &Co
Rosabel
Bethlehem
Benj. Cutler
Anape
Leo. R. Wis
Leor
L.O. Emerson
Young, Chil
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Oliver Ditson & Co
Lyon & Healy
Thayer
U.S . Co
P.O
T. A. Slocum
M.C
Pearl St
N.Y
J. Schiffman
St. Paul, Minn
J. C. Hatdort, M. D
Magnetic Institute
Grand Rapids Mich
Ud Esterbrogk
Milwaukee Road
L. Co. Enifpes
W. Bt
Piso
Hazeltine
Warren, Pa
Tie Lita
GEN
Ogksend Bibles
Liub. House
St. Paul, Mina
HELP
Ellert
Emmert Prorrietary Co
Chiago
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Avenue
W.N.U
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