New York City Ferries Up for Bid in Ten-Year Cycle
The city plans to relet ferry operations every decade to the highest bidder Sr Paut will vote on issuing bonds up to one million dollars to buy existing street railway lines if approved the experiment may attract close attention National banks total 3470 up 54 in a year with southwest gains The capital in banks stands at 586 million dollars with surplus and profits rising over 10 million annually
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City of
New York
Sr. Paut
Southwest
St Cloud approves $80,000 bonds for saw mill complex
The city council and board of trade of St Cloud unanimously vote to issue $80,000 bonds to entice capitalists to locate a saw mill with 40,000,000 feet per season capacity. The project includes a shingle lath planing mill machine shops and a wood finish factory set for completion this year and next season.
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City Council
Board of Trade of
St. Cloud
New Postal Card Promises Privacy and Easy Folding
A forthcoming postal card is described with enhanced privacy features. It resembles a double card of the old pattern, with a back fold split diagonally from all corners and opening square. Corners join at center with gummed paper after writing, weighing under half an ounce and carrying similar writing capacity to current cards.
St Cloud's bridge bond scheme linked to manufacturing grants
Fergus Journal reports St Cloud plans to reassign 380000 of bridge funds by a fifteen member committee to build the bridge and then sublet to the lowest bidder with any remaining balance used to attract outside manufacturing firms. The move is described as an ingenious workaround to bond legality.
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St. Cloud
Fergus Journal
Chamber of Commerce
Wisconsin Central Said to Plan Transcontinental Alliance
Rail circles report a near term deal to form a vast railroad combine joining Wisconsin Central Northern Pacific Oregon Transcontinental Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Baltimore and Ohio with Colby Abbott Hoyt moving among directors and a Chicago depot ready to host six railroads, signaling a major national network merger.
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Northern Pacific
Oregon Transcontinental
Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe
Baltimore & Ohio
Wisconsin Central
Colby
Abbott
Atchison Circle
Hoyt
Oregon-Transcontinental
Villard
Atchison
Press
They Do Everything But Talk At Newmarket Education Exhibit
A St Paul Globe description highlights Mr Coup and Prof Buckley displaying educated horses at Newmarket. The animals obey with high intelligence, performing tasks from leaving a place to spelling on a board and fetching mail. The show includes a shadowgraph display and Ida Clark cornet solos.
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St. Paul Globe
Newmarket
Coup
Buckley
Ida Clark
Levy
Mass Meeting Deliberates Brainerd Electric Plant Deal
A Brainerd mass meeting endorses selling the electric light plant to a eastern capitalist syndicate in return for fifty street lights for twenty years and a new million dollar manufacturing plant. Proposals to hold a special election and form a five member committee were adopted, with city council consent and future reporting to proceed.
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N. C. Turatt
Supt. Greene
Leon E. Lum
L. P. White
J. H. Koop
A. P. Farrar
H. C. Stivers
Waeneas
Brainerd
Spaulding
L. P. White, Sr
John N. Nevers
Hemstead
J. J. Howe
W. S. McClenahan
St. Paul
Council
Democratic campaign speaker sues state committee
Bert Robertson from Big Stone County sues James W. Lawrence M. W. Glenn D. W. Lawyer and others of the Democratic State Central Committee to recover 769 for expenses. He says from Sept 19 to Nov 7 he rendered services valued at 775 and advanced 144 of his own funds, receiving 150 to date.
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Bert Robertson
Big Stone Count Oo
James W. Lawrence
M. W. Glenn
D. W
Democratic State Central Committee
Mrs Nygren Dislocates Jaw Delays 23 Mile Ride
Mrs C F Nygren of Fergus Falls yawned Tuesday and dislocated her lower jaw requiring a 23 mile trip to town for treatment.
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C. F. Nygren
Fergus Falls
Cow Swallowed Miscellaneous Objects Says Meat Inspector
Meat Inspector Richardson condemned a cow in South Minneapolis after a post mortem. The stomach contained nails from a tack to a ten penny, a rubber ball, beer corks, a sleeve button, a paper chip, a Nicollett House bar check No. 80, and old leather. It was found the animal fed mainly on hotel swill.
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Richardson
South
Minneapolis
Minn. Journal
Old Settlers Meeting for Union Formation
Notice calls residents to a May 21 meeting at 8 pm at the 1st Ward Hose House to form an Old Settler's Union with a proposed 15 year residence requirement. Signers include Wa Parge N McFaprex L N Low A Manur TM Jas Dewar.
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1St Ward Hose House
Wa. Parge
N. McFaprex
L. N. Low
A. Manur
Jas. Dewar
Prominent Citizen Accuses Wife Affair With Newspaper Man
A city report claims a well known citizen found his wife in compromising relations with a newspaper man and ordered him to leave the city within a stated period to avoid exposure.
Stick to your flannels Tom as spring arrives
A short, rhythmic admonition urges Tom to keep his flannels on through May and avoid illness as the sun shines, warning that without discipline he may become an angel before spring ends.
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Tom
Mrs Pennell's dress parlor hosts new millinery stock
Mrs J H Hamilton of Minneapolis arrived with a fine new stock of millinery goods. The display is at Mrs Pennell's dress making parlor in Room 6 upstairs Hartley block. Latest styles and prices to suit the times.
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J. H. Hamilton
Minneapolis
Notable Figures Entertain and Endow Institutions Across States
Dan Rice the famed Shakespearian clown lectures in Texas earning about five hundred dollars weekly for his performances. Chauncey Warner of Cambridges Vermont donated property valued at 40 000 to 50 000 dollars to the Warner Home for Little Wanderers and the St Albans Hospital. Alexander H. Stephens kept a pistol only once, which was stolen from under his pillow, leading him to vow never to carry a weapon. Susan Rosell of Philadelphia died leaving a substantial estate to benefit aged and infirm Methodist Episcopal Church members. Lewis H. Bellinger of Canajoharie New Jersey died by his own hand amid beliefs of milliner persecution. In Barrington New Hampshire 219 voters backed General Harrison in 1840. thirty-one remain living, all but three later supported Blaine, while two voted for Monroe in his first election. Mrs Elliott of Frankford seeks Dr Mary Walker. she adopts male attire fully except for a white apron. Miss Fanny Mills of Ohio has the largest feet on record, shoes and slippers cost seventy dollars. David Linton of Ohio, a Scotch Irishman, rose from clerk to millionaire worth twelve million dollars, funding public charities.
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Dan Rice
Texas
Chauncey Warner
Cambrid Vt
Warner Home
St. Albans Hospital
Cambridge
Belvidere
Alexander H. Stephens
Chicago Mail
Susan Rosell
Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal Church
Lewis H. Bellinger
Canajoharie
N. J
Troy Times
General Harrison
Barrington
N. H
James G. Blaine
James Monroe
Chicago Times
J. Elliott
Frankford
Mary Walker
Philadelphia Times
Fanny Mills
Ohio
New York
Chicago Journal
David Linton
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Handsome Horses and a Trick Donkey Tale From Coup Troupe
W C Coup arrives in Denver with sixteen educated horses and stories of Buckley and Bartholemew’s training methods. He describes the Araucian stock and tricks from pushing barrels to the cannon-bearing horses used in Mollie Maguire era crowds. A comical donkey once drank beer and staggered on stage. Also includes ad blurbs for May train fares and a piano-for-horse exchange in Brainerd.
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W. C. Coup
Denver
Taz News
Coup
Budd Doble
Cortes
Mexico
Gener
America
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Mollie Maguire
Prisoner Argues Judge Misunderstands Fen Joke
An Arkansas traveler reports Watson Haney known as Sharon, a ferryman, is arraigned after a grave offense. He claims assault on Harvey Peters was a joke and that both men prank each other, while the judge questions the seriousness and integrity of the act.
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Watson Haney
Sharon
Watson
Jedge
Harvey Peters
Probate notice on Chauncey Sleep er estate sale license
In Crow Wing County Minnesota a probate court orders executors John L. Smith Sarah L Sleeper and Edward Hazen to seek license to sell part of the real estate of Chauncey Sleep er to pay debts. A hearing is set for July 1 1840 in Brainerd with four weekly newspaper notices and personal service to interested parties.
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State OF
Minnesota
Crow Wing
Chauncey B. Sleeper
John L. Smith
Sarah L. Sleeper
Edward Hazen
Brainerd
A. D
W. P. Spalding
Mortgage sale and probate notices from Crow Wing County
Mortgage sale notice for Mary F Boland and Allen Boland now Mary Curial seeks foreclosure on property in Brainerd Crow Wing County Minnesota with sale set June 22 1889. Probate notices in Brainerd announce letters testamentary for Edwin Halladay estate and creditors given six months to file claims.
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Mary F. Boland
Allen
Boland
Mary Curial
Crow Wing
Minnesota
Court House
Brainerd
Probate Court special term for Florian Erath estate
In the Probate Court special term on April 10 1889 Herman Erath petitions for administration of Florian Erath deceased intestate at Crow Wing County Minnesota The court orders the petition heard April 10 1889 at 2 pm and requires notices to heirs and interested persons by publication for three weeks in the Greene Dispatch Brainerd Minnesota dated April 10 1889.
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State OF
Minnesota
Crow Wing
Edwin Halladay
Florian Erath
Herman Erath
Wright County
Crow Wing Co Nty
Herman Brath
Thig Court
Said
I Greene Dispatch
Brainerd
Said County
Seal.j
Through First and Second Class Day Coaches to New York
Exit System operates Dary Fast Sorips Trains to the Seaboard offering Pauatian Pertuman Barret Suggrixa Cans or Luxurious Putrimay Day Coaches. Fares: $1.50 to New Yorx Burrato Niagara Fanns, $2.35 to Axpany Troy, $3.00 to Boston New Engaland Carts. Only line with Pullman cars to Boston and New England via Albany. Tickets at Chicago city offices.
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Chicago
Ashland
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Seeaboard
Burrato
Niagara
Axpany
Troy
Boston
New Enaland
New York
New EngLand
Albany
Chicago City
South Clark Street
Grand Pacific Hotel
Palmer House
Dearborn
J. W. Berrows
F.C. Dogarr
Grent Pass
Wisconsin Central Endorsed as Leading Pullman Line
Diary note from travelers asserts Wisconsin Central possesses broad endorsement as the popular through line between Minneapolis and Milwaukee and Chicago. It highlights dining car service, fast trams, extensive business-center coverage, and dedicated terminal agents to ensure passenger comfort. For details, contact nearest Ticket Agent or WM. Mellin, Jas. Barker representatives.
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Wisconsin Central
Minneapolis
ST. Paul
Milwaukee
Chicago
Wisconsin
Northwest
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