Murder Case Casts Spotlight on Minneapolis Officials
The text notes indictments of Feig Littleton Hayward and Blixt for the Catherine Ging murder in Minneapolis. It lauds Mayor Eustis for guiding the case to swift justice and honors Justice Gurman of Minnesota as he nears retirement. A prophecy warns of political upheaval in Richmond and Concord within two years.
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Washington
Richmond
Concord
N. H
Catherine Ging
Minneapolis
Harry Hayward
Claus Blixt
Eustis
Brainerd and Crow Wing County Reject Bro Stivers
The Cass County Pioneer editorialized that Bro Stivers of the Journal has lost esteem in Crow Wing County, likening him to a political puppy in Cass. It argues that mixed acts for district peace lead to distrust and political death as the people seek an honest representative.
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Brainerd
Crow Wing County
Bro Stivers
Cass
Cass County
Ferris Seeks Roads Boost from Brainerd Delegation
A. F. Ferris, representative-elect from Brainerd, says his delegation is undecided on speaker and has no major legislation planned, but favors good roads. He proposes using swamp lands to build roads, arguing it would raise taxable property and pay for itself. He notes the state fish and game commission meets tomorrow to review laws and report to the governor. The duck law needs minor fixes and higher enforcement funding.
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A. F. Ferris
Brainerd
Ferris
State Fish and Game Commission
Capitol
Mr. Ferris
Todd
Morrison
St. Paul
Ambiguous Offer Promises Payment for Service
The text proposes payment for unspecified work and offers to attend to any separate and honorable business if compensated. It uses tentative language and asks for payment before proceeding, with no concrete details or identities provided.
Snowbird Escapes Southward via Burlington Route
Those preferring winter respite avoid cold with Whittier’s Snow Bound in mind but choose sun laden southern resorts. The piece notes US vastness and rail connections, highlighting Florida Alabama North Carolina Mississippi Texas California. It promotes Burlington Route with northern lines to Chicago and St Louis linking to southern routes. J C Kenyon St Paul Minn offered excursion guidance.
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Whitter
Mississippi and
Hudson
Florida
Alabama
Caroline
Mississipi
Texas
California
United States
Burlington
Chicago
St. Louis
J.C. Kenyon
St. Paul
Minn
Notes from a European Tour 1894 Diary Entry
Traveler recounts low wages for common labor in Naples and Rome, high candle and sleeping car costs, and legal fees in America compared with Italy. Describes Genoa, Gibraltar, steerage cabins, Italian steerage, and impressions of foreign cities, rail fares, and naval defenses at Gibraltar.
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Venice
Eprrons Disratca
Naples
Rome
America
Genoa
New York
Gibraltar
Tom Congdon
Travel notes from a 1894 journey through Italy to Austria
The writer describes a night train across the Alps from Italy to Austria in first class, detailing car heat, heating methods, engine designs, brakemen, and sparse brakes on freight cars. He comments on Italian farming practices, chestnut markets, and early irrigation systems along lowland rivers and canals in eastern Italy.
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Alps
Italy
Austria
Northern Pacific
Brainerd
Venice
Travels of Leon E. Lum From Genoa to Naples
Lum recounts six years in Europe, meeting a U S dealer of Planet Jr cultvator, visiting Genoa churches and a famed cemetery, noting Italian life and language barriers. He travels by ship to Naples, admires Vesuvius and Ischia, observes Roman villas ruins, and hints at Pompeii and future Naples details in a forthcoming letter.
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Gibraltar
Genos
Cleveland
Ohio
Genoa
St. John the Baptist
Bes
St. Peter’s
Rome
Naples
Malta
Die
Vesuvius
Straits of
Ischia
Pompeii
Leon E. Lum
Northwestern Line praised for traveling comfort in period notes
An Improvement Bulletin from Minneapolis extols luxury travel on the Northwestern Line, followed by a trade journal on paste foundations. Instructions detail making paste from white and rye flour, boiling processes, alum usage cautions, and wall sizing with glue for papered surfaces.
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Improvement Bulletin
Minneapolis
Trade Journal
An Old Housekeeper’s Quirky Cleanliness Turns Away Pests
The Philadelphia Record notes a longtime housekeeper in charge of a large downtown mansion who tidies rooms with odd, ritual movements. Her method yields mice and rats free spaces as she follows tales of frontier hunters who marked sleeping grounds with disturbed earth to deter dangers.
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Philadelphia Record
Petition for Sale of Real Estate in Estate Proceeding
Mary T Strauss executrix seeks license to sell all real estate of the deceased to pay debts legacies and expenses. The court orders appearance by interested parties January 7 1895 at 11 am at the County Courthouse Brainerd Minnesota and publication of this order weekly for three weeks in the Brainerd Dispatch.
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Minnesota
Crow Wine
Lyman Whipple
Robert G. Valientyne
Brainerd
Inland
Mary T Strauss
County Court House
Crow Wing County
Crow Wing
Edward P. Caporn
Madeline Caporn
Brainerd Co-Operative Building and Loan Association
Crow Wingounty
Haines
East Brainerd
Mor i District legal notice from attorney Fleming
W. A. Fleming attorney of Mor files a dated notice on December 6 1894 initiating a legal action or filing. The terse notice records an attorney’s name and date in a historic docket entry.
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W. A. Fleming
Mor i
Mortga
Praise for Caicege Milwaukee Saint Paul Railway
General Len Wallace lauds the Caicege Milwaukee Saint Paul Railway in the St Paul News Record noting superb wagoncest train service on The pewaukee pecans Sponge and St Paul. He praises the private compartment cars as superior and mentions electric berth reading lamps and steam heating.
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Len. Wallace
Caicege
Milwaukee & St. Paul
St. Paul
United States
Europe
Northern Pacific ad offers illustrated pamphlet on farms
Fez, general passenger agent, Northern Pacific Railroad, St. Paul, Minn, says a small plot is worth more to the owner than a large farm and invites readers to send their name to receive a pamphlet showing where to obtain such a farm.
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Cuharles S. Fez
Northern Pacific Railroad
St. Paul Minn
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