Minnesota Legislature Debates Elections and Prison Reform
The legislature considers changes to election hours and registration days, plus repeal of city limits provisions. Bills address fraud in grain sales, university funding, and prison labor oversight. Senate and House introduce measures on bonds, juror qualifications, building and loan rules, and county commissions.
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Hiram Roa
Congress
Committee On the Judiciary
Clough
State University
Fillmore
Freeborn
Marti
Renville
Halvorson
Gibson
Dexter
Brounsdale
Red Rock
Mower County
Southern Minnesota Railroad Company
Crandall
Pillsbury Academy
Owatonna
M. Johnson
Kandiyohi County
Lyon County
Ortonville
Glencoe
Hoyt of
Goodlye
Stillwater
Benson
Hoyt
Willrich
Rameey
Caiting
Searle
Senate
Swenson
Charitage Institution
Railroad Committee
Nashbar
Goodrich
Daniels
Committee of Education
Nelson
Jared
Cran- Sal
Borns de
Goone
Stirley
Nachbar
Whiteman
Swensen
Goodach—Tomore
Herman Bently
Iusanme
Rochester
Ksudiyohi
Capitol
Niance
Justice Court
Graceville
Enes
Wright
Williams
Ramsey
Kries
John Ives
Dunn
Eastman
Fleming
H. F. Stevens
Stevens
Heldemaon
Brown
Brown County
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Wisona
Supreme Court
C.R Davis
Nicollet
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Nennepin
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State Historical Society
Minnesota in Brief Highlights Local News Across Counties
Minnesota in brief covers varied items including A W Stone planning a large two story Bird Island hardware store, Chapin saw mill sale to Minneapolis interests near Ely, and a missing boy Oscar Nord from South Red Wing. It notes Moorhead court jury troubles, crimes, snow in Hinckley, and local civic updates from Balaton to Rochester.
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Peacernes
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Freeborn
Hoard
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Scheffer
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James Pond
Compton
Otter Tail
Mille Laca
Daggett Brook
Crow Wing
Alexandria
Wadena
Hutchinson
Grant
Douglas
Judiciary
Pelican Lake
Grant County
Hixon
Agriculture
House
Lake Pipin
A. W. Stone
Bird Island
Chapin
Ely
Minneapolis
Oscar Nord
South Red Wing
Judge Severance
Mankato
Severance
Moorhead
Brown
William Bremen
Julia Chaffee
Household Tips and Parrots Spark Apartment Riot
A New York Truth column mashes home care advice from cleaning brass to tea making. The piece ends with a riot at the Lorena apartment house after Ralph Harrison brings two bald parrots that deride cooks and mock neighbors, provoking a noisy confrontation.
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New York
Lorena
Ralph Harrison
Hotel Register
Harrison
An Artistic Rag Rag from Home Made Rugs
A Chicago Ledger excerpt describes home made rag rugs woven from woolen strips. It notes striped ends and a center medley with a lengthwise warp creating color bands. Small rugs suit matting, while larger pieces suit artistically furnished rooms, approaching the beauty of Eastern carpets.
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Chicago Ledger
Proper Methods for Packing Pork and Beef for Winter Use
The article instructs on preserving pork and beef during the season. It emphasizes separating bloody pieces for immediate use or sausage, avoiding blood to prevent spoilage, salting generously, curing with saltpetre after two to three weeks, and handling brine scum by boiling, skimming, and repacking.
Changing Views on Single Life for Women
A thoughtful writer notes that society now accepts and even admires women who choose to remain unmarried. High achieving, serious women may find husbands unnecessary, finding happiness and usefulness in single blessedness.
Benzine Treatment Destroys Strawberry Pest on Twelve Acres
A French forest officer reported at a National Agricultural Society meeting that white grubs attacking strawberry plants were killed on twelve acres using benzine at 3.20 dollars per acre. Holes were dug with iron dibbies and fifty grains of benzine poured per square yard just above the grub feeding ground.
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National Agricultural Society
Catholic Church investigates mixed marriages under Rome orders
Archbishop Ryan and all bishops are gathering data on Catholic Protestant marriages over the past decade. They seek numbers on parental faith instruction, conversions, apostasies, and children lost to the church, with dispensations varying by diocese. Results will be sent to Rome for review.
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Ryan
United States
Sacred College of the Oe
Dioces
Philadelphia
Soap and Law Clash On Missouri Farm
A Missouri constable went to a St. Joe area farm to fetch a witness in a court case. He finds her in a yard tending a bubbling kettle of soap. She refuses to attend court, arguing she must finish the soap before the judge, invoking law and household duty amid a humorous dispute.
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Missouri
St. Joe
Jedge
United States
Agricultural Notes on Dairy and Stock Breeding Practices
Summary of farming guidance from W. L. Lynch on Danish butter quality through frequent churning and cream care. Notes on pig growth variation and breeding picks, cow feeding regimens including bran and corn meal, and milk versus meat production with moist feeds. Includes livestock show results for Leonard Johnson and Percheron entries, commentary on farm wives, hog weights, and a brief item on Judge Barnes impeachment inquiry and remedial products.
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Waldo F. Brown
Leonard Johnson
Northfield Minn
Chicago
Gilbert
Francois
Norma
Orin Ballon
Long Prairie
Minn
Prairie Farmer Urges Saving Wood Ashes for Land Use
The Prairie Farmer extols saving wood ashes for soil use highlighting that ashes firm light soils and loosen heavy soils. They contain potash and phosphate and help liberate soil nutrients. Ashes act with humus to form soluble nitrate of potash, making nutrients available. best applied in spring or early summer and lightly covered into the soil.
Proper butter making stresses purity and cleanliness
The text emphasizes maintaining globule purity in milk fat to ensure butter quality and shelf life. It covers dairy hygiene, feeding limits, stable conditions, milking cleanliness, setting methods, separators, cream ripening, colorants, and churning specifics.
The Oak of Oaks of Woodbridgetown
The old oak near New Haven Connecticut, famed for its vast size, was felled after five hours of chopping by four men. Its trunk measured 27 feet 6 inches in diameter and held more than eleven hundred rings, indicating it was over a thousand years old.
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Woodbridgetown
New Haven
Conn
New England
Quinnipiac Oak Tree Association
New York
Allen's Lung Balsam Now Widely Available in Stores
Advertising notes promote Allen's Lung Balsam as a standard family remedy for coughs croup and lung diseases with bottles priced at 25c 50c and 1.00. It urges购买 at any drug store and carries the Druggist J P Allen St Paul signature.
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J. P. Allen
St. Paul
Threats target Sioux City Law and Order league leaders
The Law and Order league of Sioux City faces threats of assassination unless it stops its crusade against saloonist successors. The heated dispute mirrors the high tensions from the murder of Dr. Haddock as life and property are threatened.
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Sioux City
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Dr. Haddock
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