Minnesota News Roundup From The Northwest State
The Northwest column reports Minnesota items: Duluth street railway near operation, various deaths including suicides and murders, a raft season wrap with logs cut, a fire at Starbuck injuring KE Bybee’s children, a longevity record in Goodhue County, court actions in Mankato, Green deaths in St Paul, a missing boy Harry Pettie with a $500 reward, and a proposed Duluth military academy site with a $30,000 bonus sought.
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Pat Kenney
Madison
Peter Harps
Traverse County
Wheaton
Henry F. Oxnard
Grand Island
Chris Langguth
St. Peter
Charles Bushee
Minnesota
Grand Forks
Crookston
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Lewis Baker
Caledonia
Maurice Hafey
Duluth
McNamara
Mike Brennan
New Orleans
Murphy
Brennan
Otto Walther
Mississippi
Harry Esterling
Aitkin
Trout Brook
Mich
Herman Davids
Stillwater
Starbruck
KE. P. Bybee
Ernest Holst
Belvidere Township
Goodhue County
Holst
Nelson
Mankato
Ed A. Steven
Thaddeus
Alickey
Ben Aarons
Nellie K. Green
Joseph C. Green
Green
Rochester
Congregational call to Rev Wilcox at Grand Forks
A Grand Forks Congregational church has extended a call to Rev. Wilcox of Alexandria Minnesota. The new Metropolitan theater in Grand Forks opens November 10 with seat sales already over seven thousand dollars.
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Congregational Church
Grand Forks
Wilcox
Alexandria
Minn
Metropolitan Theater
Jamestown
Williams
Grand
J. F. McCarthy
Meinhardt
Cogswell
Sargent County
Grant
Miles
Roger
Standing Rek Indian Agency
Mitchells artesian well flow reaches strong 375 feet
Reports from Yankton and surrounding areas note diverse local items. A Hubbard squash weighs fifty four and a half pounds, a St Paul youth swindled with a forged check, workers in Wisconsin disliked knee deep water, and an Indian election at Crow Creek selected White Ghost as chief. Others involve accidents, a marriage among Lower Brule Sioux, a threshing injury at Red Lake Falls, a sunstruck man in Yankton asylum, and sugar beets proving viable in South Dakota with a large two row yield of 115 pounds from seed sent by the agricultural department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Silas Burton
Yankton
Bob Smith
St. Paul
C. F. Smith
Chamberlain
Wisconsin
Crow Creek
White Ghost
J. J. West
Aberdeen
Left Hand Thunder
John Pederson
Red Lake Falls
George H. Carey
Sioux Falls
Carey
South Dakota
Salem
A.C. Patheal
Agricultural Department
Local items report copper finding and legal cases
Hans Olson of Hurley discovered 115 pounds of pure copper on his lot and can fetch ten cents a pound. John Gallagher of Shulisburg holds a diamond worth 300 dollars bought at a low figure from a traveling man. J D East paid 15 dollars and costs to a Waupaca justice for willful aiming and discharging a gun at three men. Secretary Noble asks Indian Agent Leahy to bar green pine cutting on reservations this winter. A farmer near Oshkosh paid 25 dollars for a wife, a jesting tale. Annie Bentzen of Christiana Norway visits Wisconsin to study U S schools as a government agent. Midland railroad condemnation appraisers award up to 3,300 dollars to Winnebago Furniture. Apparition scare near Superior’s St Francis Hospital turns out to be a demented Frenchman. Racine sheriff hunts John Muehr who fled after insanity claim. later confined to West Bend poor house. William Walton nearly crushed on railroad track but rescued. George E Jacobia travels to St Paul seeking a cattle buyer Scott. after cattle sale, Jacobia funds 250 dollars to Scott to buy sheep, then returns home. cattle and Scott vanish from record.
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Hans Olson
Hurley
John Gallagher
Shulisburg
J. D. East
Waupaca
Noble
Leahy
Annie Bentzen
Christiana
Norway
United States
Midland Railroad
Fond du Lac
Winnebago Furniture and Manufacturing Company
West Bend
William Walton
Superior
Walton
George E. Jacobia
St. Paul
Scott
Jacobia
Durand
Ohn Collins
John
Unson
New York
Jadbn
Annie
John Collins
Local items note drought relief and a Dubuque idea
The column reports varied items including Warren county relief aid for Kansas drought victims, a drowning of Willie Tilton in Indianola, Frank Blumenthall’s disappearance in Dubuque leaving destitute heirs, Geneva widow Mrs. Alex Cowdry inheriting over 300000 dollars, and heirs in Kentucky arranging division of a 60000000 dollar legacy. It also mentions a state high school statistics pamphlet, walnut log shipments from Birmingham, and Captain J S McKinley’s Civil War injuries and enduring health at age 52.
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Dubuque
Warren County
Kansas
Indianola
Willie
William Tilton
Frank Blumenthall
Alex. Cowdry
Geneva
Kentucky
Old Country
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
D. McMillan
Birmingham
Washington Press
Crawfordsville
Maxwell
John Graham
J. S. McKinley
Osage
Daisy Found After Frightful Search Near Hay Cock
Daisy, missing from home, is located asleep beside a hay cock in a neighbor’s field after a long search by family and friends. Mamma rushes to comfort her as the house resumes calm, while Papa returns tired yet relieved at the turn of events. Daisy’s innocent reply ends the scare with a tender moment at the breakfast table.
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Daisy
Papa
Parkside Rescue Alters Fate for a Desperate Pair
John Collins, jobless and near penniless, intervenes in a crying young woman’s suicide attempt at a city park. He offers marriage and work, they wed, and a doorstep encounter reveals Annie is an heiress. Though fortune arrives, Annie credits John’s generosity with saving her, and they vow happiness at the old family home.
Death Blow to Love in the New York Weekly
A father and mother scheme to curb their daughter’s infatuation with a young man by implying other girls reject him to deter an elopement. The plan hinges on creating aversion and limits the daughter’s choice, reflecting dramatic family strategy.
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New York Weekly
Del Monte Wave Ribbon scene at the beach reunion
A young woman recognizes a ribbon clerk who saved her life at the beach last month and requests two yards of ribbon. The exchange shows warmth and gratitude as they recall the past rescue and place a new order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
del Monte
One Year Since Loss In Silent Tribute To Love
A year has passed since a beloved figure died leaving beauty and joy behind. The speaker laments the vanished life and questions what the deceased saw, while acknowledging a calm, green grave and the hope that the veil may lift in God's will. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A Night in Delmonico's and a Fateful 24 Hours
A narrator observes a dramatic scene in Delmonico's with John Mowbray, who bets a fortune and vows to prove time is illusion. Over twenty four hours he shames, gambles, and abandons his life and love, ends in ecstasy and a deathly gesture, then the witness reports a twist ending and Hawthorne’s framing note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heather
Delmonico
Broadway
Thut
John Mowbray
Sean
Mowbray
New York
Mabel
Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Marriage Despite Concealed Kleptomania
The court extended caveat emptor in a dissolution case six years after marriage. It held deceit about a spouse’s character is not by itself grounds to annul, requiring each party to inform themselves before entering such a life contract.
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Supreme Court of
Minnesota
A Thousand Lakes
Supreme Court
Extermination of the Grizzly Bear
A California paper urges immediate government steps to protect the grizzly bear warning that without action the species could vanish as the buffalo did. The piece humorously critiques the bear’s temper and appetite, noting the author’s desire to keep mountain ranges between them and the animal.
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California
John Sullivan
The Freihaus of Vienna a City Within a Building
A Colorado Exchange Journal description of the Freihaus in Vienna Wieden, the world’s largest residence with 1200 to 1500 rooms and over 400 apartments. It houses 2112 residents, hosts 31 staircases and 13 courtyards, and requires detailed addresses for mail to reach occupants. Annual rent totals 100000 florins.
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Vienna
Austria
Freihaus
Free House
Wieden
Colorado Exchange Journal
Horace Greeley Character Revealed by Private Dinner Anecdote
An American Stationer describes Horace Greeley as having keen intellect, rugged honesty, intense patriotism, and simple, confiding morality. He recalls a 1872 private dinner where Greeley, asked about pineapples, quipped I cant eat em they give me the colic, then continued his arguments, revealing a child-like frankness that charmed listeners but wounded his image among caricaturists.
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American Stationer
Horace Greeley
Greeley
Washington's Possessions and Agriculture at Mount Vernon
From an Almanac of 1790, General Washington held 10,000 acres in one body near his seat, employed 240 hands, operated 25 plows, sowed 1,787,600 bushels of oats and 700 acres of wheat, and prepared corn barley potatoes and more. His estate included nearly 500 grass acres and 150 turnips. Stock totaled 140 horses 112 cows 235 working oxen and 500 sheep. He visits farms daily weather permitting and conducts extensive agricultural experiments in a bid to benefit mankind. in 1786 he killed 150 hogs weighing 18,500 pounds for family use.
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Washington
Schiller's Curiosity A boy watches lightning from a tree during a storm
A Boston Herald tale recalls a thunderstorm when Fritz Schiller, missing at first, was found perched on a branch watching the flashes with awe. The father scolds him for risk, but the boy answers the lightning is beautiful and he wished to see where it came from.
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Schiller
Fritz
Boston Herald
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Harry Pettie
Dunseith
John Cramb
North Dakota
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William Howland
Passaic
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Florence Slidell
Red River
Devil's Lake
Stade & McKee
John Bell
Alex. Walker
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Shephard
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H. C. Nygard
Carmichael
Rockhouse
Emmons County
Snake Creek
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Perfecto Fernandez
Dwyer
Oshkosh
Iowa
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Lord of the
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mabel Gracom
Pittsburgh Dispatch
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the Christian Workers
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Japan
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Bayou Sara
Park Place
Sigkhe Carters
Carter Medicine CO
Small Price
Fle Kinfe
Iola Cancer Infirmary
Iola
Waupaca, Co
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Okg
the Pedine Co
W.tiorris
Washington, D.C
Principel
Us&s. Pension Bureau
James Tanner
LD. C
D.e.lowe Medical Institute
Winstec-Cenrs
Cincinnati
G. H.ingraham
M. D
Amsterdam
N. Y
D. R. Dyche & Co
Woonsocket Rubber Bro
Woonsocket Robber CO
Yeocraxer
N. WW
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Warren St
Cis
Isap Mn
van Dusen
Rrington CO
Nikee
Price
Addre
Jia Azeltine
Warren
Stell
Northwestern Newspaper Union
Partieuise
ST. Paul, Minn
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