Brainerd Dispatch Adopts Cold Water Aid Note
Brainerd Dispatch reports St. John advocates cold water at Fergus Falls while State Geologist Winchell estimates Minnesota lakes at 11,000. Otter Tail County Farmer notes a new venture issued at Fergus Falls. Brainerd publication serves Grow W4ng Cass Irasca and AZTREX areas.
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Pelican Rapids Loses Sheridan House Hotel to Fire
The Sheridan house hotel in Pelican Rapids burned on Tuesday night, leaving the town in mourning as firefighters battled the blaze and residents reflected on the loss of the historic lodging.
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Pelican Rapids
Sheridan House
Farmer Near St Peter To Grow Flax And Spin Binding Cord
A farmer living near St Peter plans experiments next year to raise flax and spin his own binding cord, marking a shift toward self sufficiency in rural work.
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St. Peter
Potential Wheat Trade Duty Increase Aimed at Canada
An attempt is underway to raise the duty on American flour exported to Canada from 50 cents to 1 dollar per barrel, signaling a shift in tariff policy and its impact on cross border commerce. The move, if approved, could affect producers, exporters, and pricing structures across the grain industry.
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Water In Sauk Center Poisoned By Lead Rich Soil
The Sauk Center Tribune warns that town well water contains poison due to lead rich soil. Typhoid fever and diphtheria are described as legitimate offspring of the contaminated water, signaling a public health hazard.
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Tompson sues former employers for 50000 after seven arrests
W F Tompson, after seven arrests seven trials and seven acquittals on the charge of desalvation, yesterday brought suit for 50000 against his former employers Farnham and Lovejoy.
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Farnham & Lovejoy
Estate of Schuylar Colfax value and bank role
The late Schuy lar Colfax left an estate valued at $150,000 chiefly consisting of bank stock and bonds. He made his will the day after Christmas and died without debts. At his death he was a director of a bank in Indianapolis owning $30,000 in stock.
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Schuylar Colfax
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Indianapolis
People Want District Divided Says St Paul Dispatch
The Judge of the Eleventh judicial district must travel 680 miles to Hallock in Kittson county as the district spans 275 miles east to west. The frequent absences hinder availability, prompting calls to divide the district.
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E H Love in town over moving Bulletin to new site
E H Love conferred with Democracy leaders about relocating the Bulletin from Perham and making it a Democratic organ. Whether he set a course was not learned, but the Fergus Telegram welcomed the potential direct conflict to boost interest for both parties.
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Fergus
Northern Pacific Officials Visit Ashland to Outline Road Work
Gen. Anderson and Col. Clough of the Northern Pacific railroad in Ashland Monday announced temporary suspension of surfacing and leveling between Ashland and Superior due to severe cold. Depot and roundhouse work near completion. Trains to Superior will run biweekly this week, with future daily service once ballasting and finishing finish, linking Bramerd, Minnesota, with the St Paul line for the West.
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Wisconsin Central opens new line linking St Paul to Milwaukee
The Wisconsin Central inaugurates a direct line to Milwaukee enhancing rail competition for St Paul and Minneapolis. It opens travel to Chippewa Falls Steven's Point Waupaca Neenah Menasha Oshkosh Fond du Lac without car changes. The Central advertises first class equipment and elegant parlor cars for Milwaukee and St Paul service, with offices in Minneapolis at No 10 Nicollet House Block and 173 East Third Street St Paul.
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Crow Wing County Bonds For Mississippi River Bridge Dam
Dr Howes of Crow Wing introduces a measure authorizing the county commissioners to issue bonds amounting to fifty thousand dollars to fund a bridge and dam across the Mississippi at that point. The bill passes under suspension of the rules. Swamp land grants tied to railway interests are revived in contention as Sadley moves to transfer them to another railroad company.
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Bank Failures Hit Wadena Leader in Lumber Ties
E. H. Case president of the Bank of Wadena made a Tuesday evening assignment to A. Murray of the Merchants Bank. Liabilities are estimated at 30 000 to 35 000 with assets between 40 000 and 50 000, mostly real estate and bills receivable. Case, in banking here five years, faced lumber losses and hopes most liabilities will be paid. locals sympathize with his misfortune and praise his efforts to protect creditors.
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Minnesota Clerks of Courts Organize State Meeting
The Minnesota clerks of courts hold a state meeting at the court house in St Paul at 2 pm on Tuesday to form a uniform record keeping system. Attendees include I L Winje Montevideo and others. C A Bennett of Stillwater presides. New officers named W J Wallace chair and Charles A Johnson secretary. The session features informal discussions on association articles and public matters. visiting clerks were hosted by E A Davenport at the West restaurant.
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Brainerd
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Manterville
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Hallock
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Stillwater
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Minneapolis
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Fergus Falls Telegrams Doldrums Note Quiet Town
A wry local item surveys Fergus Falls slow season with dull crime stats and little action. Police and sheriff report routine work, insurance barely rising, and no major robberies since September. The Red River stays quiet, prize fight fizzles, and editors warn that something must happen to shake gloom.
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Pious Legislator in Humiliating St Paul Room Scandal
A granger lawmaker known for piety rented a furnished room in St Paul. Strange profanity-laced sounds and a white-clad woman triggered a confrontation with a neighbor accusing him of harboring his wife. He fled in a nightshirt, then returned next day in his usual saintly guise.
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Granger
Minneapolis
Superintendent Kiehl to Tour State High Schools
D. L. Kiehl, superintendent of public instruction, plans an official visit to the state’s high schools. Accompanying him is expected to be President Northrop of the state university.
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Senate reading provokes color change in H P Hall
During debate on a bill opposing obscene literature sales, H P Hall, representing his paper, visibly reacted with a dramatic color change. The Pioneer Press notes the moment but calls for explanation as unclear.
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Judge Rules Mule Not a Horse in Reward Case
Minneapolis Judge Young rules a mule, not a horse, qualifies for the $200 state reward for horse thief arrest. The ruling bars claiming the reward for mule thief apprehension, clarifying the law's pursuit of equine crime and payment eligibility.
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Minneapolis
Ice floe tragedy near Duluth fisher Larsens fate
An elderly Swedish fisherman named Larsen was carried out on a cake of ice into the lake at Duluth last Monday afternoon and is believed drowned. Four or five other fishermen were spotted nearby through a glass beyond a wide ice crack, miles from shore, and are thought lost as well.
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Duluth
I’m Moving Away from the Tompsons Next Door
Mr Butterwick vents about constant borrowing by the Tompsons who take cups, chairs, a poker, a wash boiler, and even a front door. He jokes about lending habits, realizes they are intrusive, and resolves to move rather than endure the neighbors’ odd demands and rumors.
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The Slow Path to a True Marriage
Theodore Parker argues that marriage unfolds gradually across life and that both young and old marry opposites or similars by nature and calculation. He celebrates shared growth, mutual correction, and a mature, enduring bond as the finest beauty of wedlock.
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The Burden of Mothers in Family Life
Will Fuentres argues in the Indianapolis Herald that mothers do nine-tenths of the toil for children, detailing how wives’ small pleasures and daily care are weighed against husbands’ comforts and the endless demands of feeding and clothing the family. He contends that mothers bear the vast majority of child-rearing labor.
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Hugo's Faith Reproduced From Hugo's Own Words
Arsene Houssaye prints Victor Hugo's recent profession of faith after a dinner at Hugo's home. The poet questions death as eternal life and argues that science must be guided by a radiant ideal. He says belief in God contrasts with belief in living forces of nature and urges living on both the visible and the invisible.
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Victor Hugo
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The Patriarch of Simmons' Gap
An elderly Georgia resident of Simmons' Gap, age eighty, has married nine times with the ninth wife as current partner. He has fathered fifty three children and welcomed over three hundred descendants at a recent family gathering, reflecting a long, storied domestic life.
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Augustus II
Poland
Legislation Urged to Compensate Wounded Guard Officer
The legislature is urged to vote $1,000 to O. L. Clyde of Little Falls who while acting as lieutenant of Company K in the Second Regiment of the State National Guards was blinded in one eye and injured by a premature cannon discharge during a sham battle at the annual encampment in New Ulm in July 1883.
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New Ulm
Private secretary salary and housing costs noted
The president’s private secretary earns 3250 dollars. Colonel Lamont struggles to find a Washington house under 3200 dollars. He contemplates what to do with the remaining fifty dollars after supporting his family for a year.
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Washington
Grand Union Hotel Ad in New York City
When visiting New York City save Baggage Expressage and Car riage hire and stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. Elegant rooms cost one million dollars, reduced to $1.00 per day and up. European plan with elevator and restaurant. Horse cars and elevated railroad access to all depots. Families can live better for less money at this first class hotel.
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