Minnesota News Briefs From Stillwater To Shakopee
Warden Stardock of Stillwater prison re elected for two years. Cloquet mills shut due to log famine, 200 Duluth workers out. Mankato schools may add manual training. Adrian barn fire destroys $400 of farm machinery. Southern Minnesota gas development begins with new drilling. Faribault resident Mrs. Arney dies suddenly. Red Wing electric swine killer works. two hogs die instantly. Chatfield soldier from 1812 dies at 99. Tower brakeman Spain badly injured by run over. Red Wing sidewalk case seeks $2100 damages. Rochester man fined $300 on gambling counts. $650 posted, freed. Hokah wife killed in carriage accident. Shakopee Indian youth arrested, sleeping in teepee. Owatonna man sues after horse theft. arrest via telegraph. St Cloud con artist swindles merchants with forged checks. Bergen man shoots son. wound likely to recover. Anoka area thugs trouble policemen. highwaymen flee after alarm. Faribault couple era ends with marriage and divorce saga. Duluth brakeman dies following impalement accident. Genoa youth Robert Robertson linked to multiple burglaries. to be sent to Illinois. Alexandra suspect with Miss Dudley trunk theft. trunk lost. Owatonna trial over alimony in Rossbach case draws attention. Otter Tail grasshopper eradication completes. six thousand acres plowed at $7,500, state expects to prevent plague. total spend under $10,000. Capt Chase and Prof Luger credited with saving thousands of acres of grain.
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C. Gyerson
Red Wing
William George
Rochester
George
William H. Snure
Hokah
Little Mary Duede
Shakopee
Weiland
John Wenger
R. H. Chapin
Owatonna
Dodge Center
Wenger
Mason City
John E. Brown
St. Cloud
I. M. Noyes
Charles Johnson
Martin Erickson
Bergen
McLeod County
Anoka
R. H. Hanscom
Salvation Army
George Armstrong
Faribault
Cora Howard
Cora
Hattie
Practical farming and home remedies collected advice
A long list of farming tips and domestic hints on tree trimming, grazing, sheep and swine health, horse care, hedging, fruiting trees, hemp industry, reaper bindings, poultry care, and simple household remedies. It preserves dated agricultural guidance and encourages thrift, careful breeding, and humane handling of animals.
Unexpected Parisian Guardian Becomes Bride
Hugh Beverley, a worldly bachelor, secretly adopts Lucille Ventnor, an impoverished American girl, after her mother dies in Tyrol. He plans to marry her in Paris with support from his sister Clara Valentine, who initially resists but is outmaneuvered when Lucille reveals her feelings and Beverley confesses his long love.
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Valentine
Beverley
Clara
Lucile Ventworhers
Irl
Clara Valentine
Paris
Ventnor
Rendy
Mrs. Valentine
Lucille Ventnor
Lucille
Germany
Hugh
Miss Ventnor
Blanche Conway
Littl
Lamb
Cows Drive 1000 Miles From Nebraska to Idaho Prairie Schooner Power
A team of four cows driven from Nebraska to Bellevue Idaho acted as motive power for a prairie schooner. They provided milk and butter for the family en route and were in good condition except for their feet which needed shoes.
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Bellevue
Idaho
Nebraska
A Tale of 1790 in New York Legislature Race
In 1790 two rivals D and L vied for a New York Legislature seat. D won by artifice and boasted of outmatching L with Dutch and French voters. An associate replied that L had the real edge in charm, honesty, and sense, exposing D’s flawed claim.
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Chicago
New York
G. Gentleman
Pigeons Devour Grain as Farmer Fails to Scare Them
Solomon Titsworth of Tunkhannock township watched a flock estimated at 200 to 300 pigeons descend on his grain one cloudy afternoon last month. Despite driving them away and beating at the birds with a beech gad, the hungry flock remained until their crops were full, then rose together and headed north.
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Scranton
Solomon Titsworth
Tunkhannock
Titsworth
Names Hidden in Time in the Cemetery
A reflective poem recalls aged tombstones swallowed by moss and ivy. The speaker notes familiar names fading from memory as summer remains bright above while the past's presence grows dim and unreachable.
Horrors of slave traffic described by Cardinal Lavigerie
A London speech cited in Scribner's Magazine depicts brutal slave raids. Traffickers tie hands and feet, force marches, starve victims, and strike the exhausted with a wooden bar. Victims die or are killed, their corpses left as others sleep and eat nearby, a brutal chain of endurance.
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London
Cardinal Lavigerie
Scribner's Magazine
Far Off Alaska People Described With Harsh Critique
A Sitka Alaskan letter writer condemns Esquimaux of northern Alaska as uncivilized and filthy. He mocks their diet of raw fish and putrefied meat, describes tattooing and body piercings, notes women do most work, and claims women drift from partner to partner. Public notice echoes colonial bias.
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Esquimaux
Alaska
Sitka Alaskan
Divine visitation or human greed in the Conemaugh disaster
The Independ ent argues the Conemaugh horror was not divine wrath but man made. It faults greedy business, reckless sport interests, and a permissive state government for the catastrophe, asserting no flood alone could have swept away the city.
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God
Conemaugh
Independent
Times
Donkey Silence Trick Told by Turkish Master
A Chautauquan excerpt describes a Turk silencing a donkey by tying a weight to its tail. The animal, ready to bray, cannot lift its tail properly and postpones the musical performance, bringing peace to the neighborhood.
Reed Defuses Street Conflict On Fourteenth Street
In Washington Letter a man named Reed stops a beating of a horse by a wagon driver near the Hamilton house on Fourteenth Street. Reed seizes the driver’s wrist and delivers a stern reproach, ending with the wagon moved aside and the horse sent to be shod.
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Reed
Hamilton House
Fourteenth Street
Washington
San Francisco Seance Ends After Question on Honest Man
Mind Reader J. Randall Brown staged a seance at the Grand Opera house. A man shouted for Diogenes, rap s followed and Brown claimed the philosopher spoke. An elderly gentleman asked if Diogenes had found that honest man yet, ending the performance with laughter.
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J. Randall Brown
Bishop
Grand Opera House
San Francisco
Diogenes
Prof. Brown
Mr. Brown
Conductor Dykman Crushed to Death in Car Coupling
Conductor Dykman of the Wisconsin Central road died after being crushed while coupling railroad cars. The incident occurred during routine switching operations, and authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal accident.
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Dykman
Wisconsin Central Road
Breathing for Vitality and Health, Dr Campbell Says
The Chicago Herald summarizes Dr Campbell on breathing to vitalize the blood. Proper breathing fuels the body and mind, with deep breathing curing sedentary ailments and promoting clear thinking. Different activities require different breathing methods and the lungs can overfill and waste air.
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Campbell
Chicago Herald
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