Northwest News Briefs From Goodhue to North Dakota
Farmers in Goodhue County plan beet culture this year while Lake City hosts a National Guard encampment. Tragic cases include Mrs Rhinehardt’s suicide by strychnine and several accidental deaths. A new pulp and paper mill will employ 300 at Little Falls, and a meteor prize dispute unfolds near Albert Lea.
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Goodhue County
M.N.G
Lake City
Matthew Rhinehardt
Jefferson
Cannon Falls
Merkle
Worthington
Unkown
Read’s Landing
St. Paul
E. K. van Hoben
Rochester
Phelps
Walter Lively
Blaffton
Martin W. Johnson
Madelra
Little Falls
Hennepin Paper Company
Swenson
Fountain Lake
Albert Lea
Martin Kiefer
Marion
George Buchan
Anderson
Minneapolis
North Dakota notes from Grand Forks to Fort Lincoln
A sprawling North Dakota roundup covers a Grand Forks broom factory, 13000 acre wheat fields, Fargo Masonite temple opening June 16, and bounty payments for gopher tails totaling 840 dollars. It notes anniversaries, party meetings in Fargo, a stallion rescue, bankers aligning with the State Bank association, a Devils Lake Indian agent confirmation fight, standard measures shortages, Fargo College plans, railroad pressure on Great Northern, and Fort Lincoln abandonment protests.
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Grand Forks
Oliver Dalrymple
North Dakota
Boanza
Fargo
la Moure County
Asa Francis
Col. Gearey
State Republican Committee
Leistikow
Grafton
Democratic State Committee
Col. Thompson
Bismarck
Farge
State Bank Association
John Waugh
Devils Lake
Washington
Fort Totton
Bronx
United States
North
South Dakota
Montana
Oregon
Geological Survey
Fargo Agricultural College Board
Jacob Lowell
Dr. Satterthwaite
James Hales
Railroad Board
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Colton
Mandon
Fort Lincoln
Fragmented Wisconsin items mix crimes and disasters
A Wisconsin page itemizes a 355 pound bear killed by Charles Henglund sold for 25 dollars, a Madison man Sam H Fernandez found dead with morphine nearby, a Shawano County amputation after a gun accident, a 1.5 million dollar mortgage filed by Wisconsin Iron Co. in Chippewa Falls, Louis Schoefeld sentenced to two years at Waupun, Edmond Horn accused of robbing a Merrill boot dealer, a major Upson fire destroying seven businesses and causing 20000 dollar loss, frost fears for cranberries and blueberries, miner Andrew Linnelson killed in Ashland mine, Pit No. 8 debris loss of 75000, Kingston Spy office vandalized, and R C Judson named secretary of the La Crosse Interstate Fair.
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Charles Henglund
Florence
Sam H. Fernandez
Madison
Claudius Scherer
Shawano County
Wisconsin
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin Iron Company
Massachusetts Loan and Trust Company
Louis Schoefeld
Wausau
Webb
Merrill
Waupun
Edmond Horn
Oshkosh
A. J. Runge
Upson
Andrew Linnelson
David Morgan
Minnesota
Ashland
Kingston Spy
R. C. Judson
la Crosse
West
Judson
Iowa News Briefs Span Farms to Kids and Stamps
In Iowa 1700 Farmers alliances plus eighty granges and numerous clubs total about 50 000 members. Two girls bitten by a suspected mad dog in Des Moines as the animal fled to a barn and died hydrophobia. A man named White arrested in Ottumwa for trying to pass 2 cent stamps at a penny. pockets hold 600 2 cent stamps and ten special delivery stamps. A meteor fragment near Ramsey from a shower in Kossuth and Winnebago counties weighs 100 pounds and resembles melted pig iron. Henry Spiker of English Lucas County harmed a horse with a live chicken and was kicked, ending in bed rest. Marshalltown to cap liquor trade with a $50 monthly license for original liquor packages, testing a Supreme Court ruling. Buckley children steal $15 from a trunk near Fort Dodge and attempt a Chicago trip. captured before departure. A court witness sends a note explaining inability to attend due to wife being run over and killed at a railroad crossing.
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Des Moines
White
Ottumwa
Kossuth
Winnebago
Ramsey
Henry Spiker
Lucas County
Henry
Marshalltown
Supreme Court
Martha Buckley
Fort Dodge
Chicago
Illinois Central
O’brien
Sheldon Mail
Cort
Obrien
Two Women and a Telegram at Willard's Hotel
A Washington Critic account describes two stylish young women at Willard's hotel drafting a telegram. They struggle to fit seven words into a message and finally settle on Carrie and I will be there tomorrow Yours, very truly.
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Fourteenth Street
Willard
Western Union
Scrivener
Carrie
Washington
A Dangerous Rescue on a Yachting Deck
In a late 19th century Times-Democrat tale a bold scheme unfolds aboard a yacht. Tom Kendall plots to win Ethel Van Zandt by staging her fall into the sea and a dramatic rescue, a plan that nearly costs her life before love and remorse reveal true feelings.
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Sara
Ethel
Lord Fenyl
Miss van Zandt
Tom
Mamma
Lord Fenyll
Mrs. van Zandt
Peony
George Wilson Prescott
Times-Democrat
Chip of the Old Block at Banquet Story
A Chicago Herald account describes a young theology student delivering a sermon before veteran ministers. His father, a longtime clergyman, gently but humorously critiques the effort as a schoolboy essay. A dominie proclaims the son a chip of the old block, eliciting quiet pride from the father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie
Chicago Herald
Arsenic in Dollar Bills Sparks Health Warning
A Washington Letter notes how female tellers avoid mouthing fingers while counting money, using sponges for moisture. It warns of disease risk from handling green notes colored with arsenic, which leaves blackened sponges and can cause sores on hands if the skin is scratched. Daily sponge changes occur to reduce exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mylee
Green
The Thistle Seeds of a Confessional Lesson
A woman confesses her sins to a holy father and admits tale bearing. Absolution is granted but she must perform penance by sowing thistle seeds and later regathering them. The priest explains the seeds cannot be retrieved, symbolizing that scandal once sown cannot be undone by penance.
Florist Ed Pieser’s friend recalls a strange burglary tale
A South Side resident recounts a burglary scare at his home. He showed his wife a set of jewelry placed on a dining room cloth and a loaded 44 caliber revolver by the bed. The next morning both gun and jewelry were gone, with the side window open. The story ends noting the odd twist of losing the firearm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Pieser
Chicago Herald
A Town in the Air by Lundy Editor Townsend
A letter from J W E Townsend, editor of the Home Mining Index at Lundy, Mono County California, reveals his printer's view of the camp and its twenty one residents including two youngsters. He muses on living two miles high, prefers hanging there to dying in a metropolis, and notes he has no cash subscribers for a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. E. Townsend
Home Mining Index
Lundy
Mono County
Cal
Townsend
Empress Arrives at Buda-Pesth Under Tight Precautions
London Truth reports the empress of Austria arrived in Buda-Pesth under extraordinary precautions. Only the emperor could be on the platform, the passage for the empress and her attendants stayed clear, railway officials were ordered away, and crowds were kept at least a hundred yards from the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buda-Pesth
Austria
London
Aristocracy Among Sales Women
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes a decline in wages for saleswomen and cash girls over years with firms preferring respectable workers who can be supported. A quoted father mocks a firm for not paying enough to support a daughter. It states there is no saleswomen’s organization and a distinct aristocracy among the group, who see themselves separate from other workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Insurance deaths outrun premiums in first quarter 1890
Twenty nine life insurance companies report for the first quarter of 1890 that total insured amount rose 13.7 percent from the same period in 1889 while death losses grew 28.8 percent. The figures indicate heavier claims versus new policy value.
Seal Skin Sacques Raise Hope For Bargain Hunters
A sales pitch extols seal skin sacques at one dollar each, urging shoppers to hurry before stock runs out. It then pivots to Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, advertised as a guaranteed cure for ailments of the weaker sex with a money back guarantee, noting its vegetable composition and physician preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WorLp
Main Street
Buffalo
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Richard Fitzpatrick
Mexico
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McCalla
U. SS. N
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W. H. Pickham
Minn
Presbyterian General Assembly
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Milwaukee & St. Paul
Cragin & Co
Rome
Tansill
Enborn
T. A. Siocum, M. C
Pearl Street
New York
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George F. Jackson
Roxnby Station
Conn
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Tutt
Cas
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Pane
Jacob Green
Good Brown
Baer
Erce
R. Pierce
Gheet Music
J.w.lus« & Co
Ensio Johns Wildaris
Wausthington
B.C
U.S. Pension Puresu
Tomi
Pathrick O’ Farrell
Nicholl
Spink & Keyes Drug CO
N. W. Mutual Endowment Society
Minneapolis, Minn
Root
M. C
W.N.U
Express Cod
F. Heath
F . Ameahie
Dragaist & Chemist
St Paul
Minc
Ingraham
M.D
Amsterdam
Thsavers Chemical So, Ciocianstf
Ohio
Penna. Salt Mfg CO. Gen. Agts
Phila
Scopirighr
Sapolio
Northwestern Newspaper Union
ST. Paul, Minn
Colossus
Rhodes
New York Commercial
Wiliam Brooker
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