Northwest summary notes a St Paul bill and local cases
A Minnesota weekly digest reports a $1.5 million federal building proposal for St Paul, a murder verdict in Breckinridge, a Chinese hotel search in St Paul, a lost pocketbook in Brace, a druggist arrest for selling to a minor, a found body near Austin, fire alarm boxes in Red Wing, a burn injury to a Duluth fireman, a Hastings manslaughter conviction, a G A R post formation at Ashby, a Fairhaven gold boom, a $500 assault verdict against Senator Bowen, theft at Sleepy Eye, a burned Dudley mill at Point Douglass, and various inquiries into deaths and insanity cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake City
Congress
St. Paul
Andrew Wold
Breckinridge
Wang Sing Ah
Twin Cities
T. Thompson
Luverne
Brace
Newell
Austin
Red Wing
Edward Anderson
Duluth
Helen Holmes
Hastings
Farmington
Jacques
Sauk Center
Wallace Preston
G. A.R
Ashby
K. N. Melby
E.C. Schon
A. D. Denny
F. Wahhldieck
Fairhaven
Stearns County
St. Peter
P. V. Colline
Bowen
Frank Dempsy
Keegan Bros
Sleepy Eye
John Dudley
Henry Sinclair
Point Douglass
Board of County Commissioners
St. Cloud
Lambert Lenz
St. Peter Insane Asylum
Winona
Voelker
Iowa horticulturists urge shallow cultivation to curb blight
The Iowa horticulturists met at Waverly and resolved that shallow cultivation best prevents blight in apple trees. The report also notes multiple crime, accidents, and local affairs across Iowa and neighboring states, including murders, injuries, pardons, trials, and municipal concerns affecting communities like Muscatine, Fort Dodge, Cedar Falls, and Spencer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Waverly
Eugene Storey
Barney Heinfeller
Muscatine
Marcella
Miss
Marshalltown
Miller
H. P. Jensen
New Hartford
Gov. Larrabee
Samuel A. Tragden
Anamosa
Wayne County
J. Losh
Carson
James Ryan
William Gleason
Dan Dooley
Creston
Afton
Fort Dodge
Wilson
Senate
Spencer
Valley
Cedar Falls
Murphy Temperance Meeting
John Johnson
Barney Helling
Fort Madison
Clinton
N. A. Felch
A. P. Marrs
Stratford
Shipley
Guthrie County
Yale
H. L. Edwards
Edwards
George B. Denison
Daniel Kessler
Council Bluffs
Little Clark Frazier
Postmaster suspended at Casselton and destitution aid debated
Postmaster Fulton at Casselton was suspended by a special inspector and his bondsmen took charge. A Jamestown telegraph petition to Senator Fuller urged a January 1 1891 start date for the prohibitory law. H T Helgeson, state commissioner, is authorized to receive destitute settler contributions, while a legislative committee will study needs in drouth districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Casselton
Jamestown
Fuller
Bismarck
H. T. Helgeson
Drouth
Pierce
North Dakota
South Dakota
McDonald
Washington
D. Ward Kennedy
Fargo
Traill County
Mayville
Ohlquist
Northwood
Hansbrough
Secretary of the Interior
Turtle Mountain Band
Chippewa
Indiana
White Earth Reservation
Berthold
Office of Surveyor General
North
Pembina
Sioux Falls
Artesian
Mail route set to run weekly from Ken to Flambeau
A new mail route will commence December 16 between Ken and Flambeau, operating once a week. Wisconsin Central in Stevens Point trims shop hours from ten to nine daily. Montreal River Lumber increases capital stock from 100000 to 400000. In Madison federal court, Jack Livingston of Sawyer County is convicted of selling liquor to Indians. Elmer Peak of Merrill expects a 900 clerkship in the Census Bureau in Washington. The body of John Riorden of Boscobel is interred after funeral delay. Ashland elects to issue 100000 bonds for advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken
Flambeau
Wisconsin Central
Stevens Point
Montreal River Lumber Company
United States
Madison
Jack” Livingston
Sawyer County
Elmer Peak
Merrill
Washington
John Riorden
Boscobel
Ashland
The Horse-Hair Snake Explained by Naturalist Notes
A naturalist describes the life cycle of the horse hair snake. A flesh colored mite begins in water, becomes purplish, then emerges to the leaves where it clings to grasshoppers and katydids. It grows within their legs or bodies, causing the insects to appear fat and clumsy. After rain, fully developed snakes emerge, delight children, and lay eggs in water before the mites die as eggs hatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah
Ark
Land of
Nod
Josie
Santa Claus
He Was Cut Out for a Lawyer
A Col. Ingersoll anecdote recalls a rawboned country mother bringing her ten year old son Jim to town to bind him out to the "lawyerin' trade." She asserts Jim is born for a lawyer, recounting early stubbornness and stubborn striving as evidence of future legal greatness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
Bob” Ingersoll
Jim
Law
New York Star
Father drills slang from daughter in Detroit tale
A Detroit father educates his 14 year old daughter to avoid slang and ambiguous speech. When asked where a book is she parrots the shelf location and asserts she can read it. After a comic miscommunication he sighs over youth and retrieves the book himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Neil
Nellie
Pop
Times
Detroit Free Press
Christmas in the Tropics vs the Boreal Pole
The speaker contrasts a tropical Christmas with a snowy Northern one, imagining crocodiles and heat in antipodes. Santa Claus and his reindeer are praised, while they joke that reindeer would not survive in the tropics. The verse ends with a toast to Santa and a northern home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Christmas Hair and a Windowed World of Winter Hope
A displaced working girl recounts poverty, a family of siblings, and a Christmas Eve of hunger. After a chance encounter, a mysterious benefactor buys her hair to fund a temporary comfort, then offers work in a warm shop where she finds dignity, new love, and a path from despair.
Giving Gifts in the Season of Charity and Hope
The piece extols Christmas mercy through practical aid such as flour meat and blankets. It recounts a Maine old gentleman who buys stove besting and hides kindness in small acts, and a memory of a hopeful Christmas morning with family and gifts. A mistaken identity tale from Detroit follows about a fiancée and a proxy domestic which reveals misperceived behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Miss H
Mr. F
Detroit Free Press
Dispatches Delayed Train Altered World History
A train halt disrupted by a broken coupling delayed a French officer carrying crucial dispatches. He missed the connection, rode to a distant camp and arrived at nightfall after a battle had begun. Small faults shaping vast destinies, history hinges on such moments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
The New Year Mine Pin Fiasco Ends in Narrow Escape
A miner, driven by low wages and illness in his family, quits work on New Year’s Day. Slate tossed by a car-boy enters ore, causes a pin to weaken. Pins linked to a pair of scissors, a woman buys the pin, a bent pin is discarded, a boy recovers it, and an oncoming train brakes to avert disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kotilenck
Kimball
Buffalo Center
Kotilenck
Paris
St. Jacoba
Charles A. Vogeler Company
Baltimore
St. Jacobs Oil
The Laugh that Rings
A Chicago Herald quote argues laughter reveals character. A young man extols a true ring in a hearty laugh as a sign of sincerity and good nature, while a shrill laugh signals deceit. He claims loud, genuine roars mark the prince of good fellows and separates the half-hearted from the honest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald
Bald headed genius knows hair will never grow back
A wry remark defines a so-called genius as a bald man whose certainty that hair will not return signals a stubborn, self confident intellect. The line uses humor to suggest that true insight may rest on unchanging personal traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester Gazette
Progress of Kentucky Civilization Note Sparks Bold Quote
A Louisville Commercial item recalls a city hall exchange between Mr Bickel of the First Ward and Mr Chickering of the Fourth Ward. Amid talk of violence a wager arose over an oath with no bloodshed, as the piece notes the incident and its unusual restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
City Hall
Bickel
First Ward
Mr. Chickering
Fourth Ward
Mr. Bickel
Count Anthoskoff Snow Flower Discovery In Siberia
Count Anthoskeff reports a remarkable and beautiful plant found on near frozen Siberian ground. He has raised seedlings from snow planted seed at St Petersburg. The bloom lasts one day and recurs every two years. Leaves are three, three inches across, clustered on the north side. petals match leaf length about half an inch wide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Anthoskoff
Siberia
London Globe
The Cure for Women by Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
A testimonial describes a woman once lively and pretty who has declined but recovers with Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It claims the medicine restores strength, color, and vitality, and guarantees satisfaction or money refunded, as printed on the bottle.
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Northwest
Northwestern States
Minnesota
W.H. Webber
Spearfish
Pierre
Sioux Reservation Improvement Company
Howard Press
Miner County
Tilford
Frank Gould Field
Jay Gould
Cyrus W. Field
Custer City
Crow Creek Agency
Collins
Ward
Homestake
Lead City
Lehman
Constable Burns
Gerrichs
Custer County
Donegan
Fort Meade
Wilmington
Del
John J. Sutton
Portage Register
Sutton
Goard
William Erickson
Ingall’s
Arcadia
Merrillan
Marshall Spargue
Trempealeau County
Hilbert Junction
Michael Cardigan
Janesville
Rock River
Cardigan
Leahy
Department
Grand Portage Reservation
Minnie Schmadlock
Fond du Lac
van Dyne
Lake Geneva
David Atwood
Mary Atwood
State Journal
A. B. Palmeter
Middleton
Supreme Court of the
George Brady
Eau Claire
Brady
Mondovi
W.S. Dwinnell
Black River Falls
George Waldo
Dwinnell
Wisconsin
Tropics
Earth
Moon
Charnel House
Joe
Poverty Row
Lucille
Heavenly Providence
Progress of
Dr. Pierce
Frank Miller
Newark
N. J
Eva Hayes
Eva
Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Hood
England
Asland
Wis
Salvation Oil
Prise
Dr. Bull’s
Boynton & Co
Cloaks, New York
Allen
J. P. Allen
Minn
George
Tansill
Paul Hale
West Union
Chicago
Castoria
DrvaGists and Dealers
THE
Charles A. Vodeler CO
Baltimore, Md
Carters
Ettler Pills
Carter Medicine CO
New York
Dr. Tutt
Dr. Tait
F. K. Osgood
Tutt
Price
Park Place
Leemans
Washton,dc
Ciro
Joseph H. Hunterington
D. C
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St.n.y
Cincinasi
Ohio
G. H.ingraham
D. Amsterdam
Nim Y
D. R. Dyche & CO
Lancaster Clothing Co
Lancaster
F. C. Austin Mfg. Co
Dakeeeie
Rogins & Ordway
Valeratus
Saleratus
Warren
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