Northwest News Roundup Highlights Local Incidents and Claims
Local updates report Mrs. R Church appointed post mistress at Wacouta Minnesota. Deer hunting intensifies in northern state while St. Paul debates underground telegraph lines. Multiple accidents injure or kill residents across counties, including Beavor Creek Beaver, Watertown, St. Paul. State assessors announce totals for real and personal property.
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R. Church
Wacouta
Goodhue County
St. Paul
J. H. Adams
Beaver Creek
Anna Klutz
East Grand Forks
Joe Hughes
Minnesota Chief Thresher Company
Albert Maske
Minden
Benton County
J. Crawford
Watertown
St. Cloud
Willie Lee
Henry Helmarth
Rock County
Pierce
Weston
Luverne
James G. Richardson
Lake City
Minneapolis Harvester Company
South Dakota Developments and Local Incidents
Graders near completion on Aberdeen to Faulkton line, Sioux Falls starch factory foundation finished with a four story main block. Mayor Peck raids Sioux Falls gambling houses seizing tables and chips. Yankton petition seeks daily overland mail to Springfield. Timber probe broadens as Smith summoned to Washington. Lead City man Short injures McFadden in a street dispute. court will decide. McKenna jailed in Sioux Falls for licensed liquor theft. linked to Watertown spotter Wright and Brookings college student. Tracy Pratt cites record capital campaign costs in Pierre and Huron, noting statewide expenditure.
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Aberdeen
Faulkton
Sioux Falls
Peck
Yankton
Overland Mail
Springfield
Smith
Deadwood
Washington
Black Hills
John Short
Lead City
Hugh McFadden
McFadden
Short
United States
Watertown
F. C. McKenna
MccKenna
Watertown Enforcement League
Wright
Brookings College
Tracy Pratt
Pierre
Huron
Pratt
South Dakota
Iowa News Snapshots From Around the State
Reports span from naval talk over christening The Ottumwa to a Waterloo boy’s accidental gun discharge. Other items note corporal punishment in Buena Vista County, a fatal nicotine poison case in Muscatine, and economic estimates for Waverly’s corn. Also covered are a Salvation Army break in Mt Pleasant, a jail escape in Muscatine, a Clinton hotel safe theft, Palmyra diphtheria cases, and a Marshalltown Soldiers Home report. Police raid on Ottumwa bootlegger Stormy Jordan ends with liquor seized.
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Ottumwa
Coal Palace
Johnny Scroggy
Waterloo
Buena Vista County
United States
Salvation Army
Mt. Pleasant
Sanders
Davenport
Muscatine County
Marion Taylor
Windsor
Clinton
State Board of Health
Palmyra
Iowa
Marshalltown
Lyons
Jordan
Prom
In a Silent Place They Found Him
Kate Putnam Osgood writes of a life’s ending seen in a painted scene. The subject lies still with a smile that hints at a dream fulfilled beyond death, while onlookers misread the vision in his gaze and mourn the lie they believed unfinished.
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Kate Putnam Osgood
Harper's Weekly
Lovers Fortune Hidden by Fortune in Rich Doctor's Tale
In a late night library scene Dr. Thornton, a prosperous physician, recalls a twelve year tale of poverty and eventual inheritance. He reveals how a wealthy patient left him a fortune after years of care and how love for the patient’s widow reshaped his life.
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Dr. Thornton
Tom
Martha
Fanshawe
Rome
Porter's Testimony Highlights Flat Scene In NY Case
Mrs Porter testifies she never shared the flat alone with Mr Smith while Mrs Smith was away, noting relatives or Miss Hannon were present. She explains linen was laundered under prior arrangements, and on cross she states she was 16 when her son was born, sparking a sharp exchange about ages.
Half and Half Dog Bear Stirs Citywide Curiosity
A curio dog bear hybrid, half dog and half bear, shuffled across a bridge and downtown, its hindquarters like a black bear and gait like a mountain bear. Reported to have been given to a Marysville man, the animal fled toward the river bottom when a man tried to shoot it, with the city sighting possibly linking the two instances in Yuba City.
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Marysville
Yuba City
Sutter County
Bird roosts on Lima clock hour hand in overnight stunt
A feathered visitor chose the Lima Ohio town clock hour hand for a roost around 10:30 PM. As the minute hand approached it calmly hopped aboard and sat on the end before returning to its original perch, drawing an amused crowd.
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Lima
Chicago Herald
The Story of Dr Hawkes and the Lord's Provisions
A historical anecdote details Dr Francis L Hawkes a famed Grace Church New York preacher and reader. A Buffalo delegation offered 3500 salary but Hawkes cited his 15000 income and costly family to decline saying he could not find the raven provision in the Bible for Hawkes.
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North Carolina
Francis L. Hawkes
Grace Episcopal
Dr. Hawkes
Eis
Elijah
Ravens
Hawkes
Grady and His Wife find balance amid genius and vanity
A friend recounts Mr. Grady's view on marriage and talent. Mrs. Grady, absorbed in preparing a French lesson for a fashionable Atlanta class, neglects the home, while he pleads for balance and prioritizes their private life over public adulation.
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Grady
Jule
Atlanta
Paris
Georgia
Mason and
Dixion
Illustrated American
Fate of a Three-Act Comedy Reported by Manager
The playwright asks about approval of a three act comedy. The manager says three literary judges want one act removed, each insisting on cutting a different act. The exchange reflects a play’s fate hinging on edits demanded by critics.
Night dialogue of Billus couple in a Chicago Tribune vignette
In a Chicago Tribune piece the Billuses share wry banter by firelight as katydids howl and a cat laments the night. Maria compares her husband’s nose color to the Louisiana government while John ponders marriage fate and lottery metaphors. He storms out as she watches flames.
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Katy
Maria
Mr. Billus
John
Louisiana
Mrs. Billus
Chicago Tribune
Differences in Memory Across Generations in Civil War Recollections
Scribner's Magazine reflects on how men aged forty two or three view Civil War memory differently from younger generations aged thirty five or less. The piece contrasts the historic perspective with reminiscence, noting younger readers’ idealized impressions versus veterans’ gritty detail. It highlights Bull Run Sunday memories and Lincoln's death as defining moments shaping inherited memory across lines of Mason and Dixon.
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Scribner’s Magazine
Mason and Dixon
Bull Run
Lincoln
Nature's Sweet Music in Humor and Laughter
The Rev. Dr. Parker of City Temple London argues humor elevates pulpit discourse. Great preachers mix refined humor with reverence, asserting laughter is a form of music and gladness in the universe, aiding commerce and home life through cheerful minds.
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Parker
City Temple
London
Luther
Whitfield
John Wesley
Spurgeon
Henry Ward Beecher
The Oldest Place in America Mount Marcy Claim
General John B. Henderson of St. Louis cites Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks as the land first emerging above water in the Western Hemisphere. He references Agansiz and others who allegedly argued the same origin point for North America.
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America
John B. Henderson
St. Louis
Western Hemisphere
Mount Marcy
Adirondack Mountains
Agansiz
The
Chicago Herald
He Was a Contented Man in a Camp Meeting Tale
The El Paso Herald reprints a Dallas News anecdote about a minister inviting attendees to rise for heaven and hell. A quiet young man remains seated during both appeals, declaring he wants no part of either after hearing Fremont’s good emuff for me.
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el Paso Herald
Heaven
Hell
Fremont
Dallas News
English Syndicate Drives Growth in Middlesborough Kentucky
A New York Tribune report describes an English syndicate investing $20,000,000 to build Middlesborough Kentucky. They have redirected a creek, erected a seventeen mile dummy line, installed electric cars and lights, and begun seven furnaces. Property remains scarce with high front foot prices. The group owns 100,000 surrounding acres and has earned about $1.5 million, while manager Arthur pockets $35,000 annually and received a $50,000 gift last Christmas.
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Middlesborough
Arthur
New York Tribune
A Smart Detective and the Justifiable Theft
The Spectator notes Sergeant Moser observed a waiter pocket a letter from a criminal and used a ruse to recover it. He then exposed the forger, arguing the act was justified. It contrasts with suborning another to steal without disclosure, which would be wrong.
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Sergeant Moser
Soho
Alphonse
Moser
An Earl's Idiosyncrasy From the Chicago Herald
The Earl of Feversham father of the Duchess of Leinster and Lady Helen Duncomb recently wed to Sir Edgar Vincent is a nobleman whose peculiar habit is not paying servants or tradesmen until faced with a general strike or refusal of service or goods.
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Chicago Herald
Earl of
Feversham
Duchess of Leinster
Helen Duncomb
Edgar Vincent
Humorous Nostalgia Ad Praises Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil
The piece playfully contrasts facial expressions with a feather tickle and sneezing. It promotes Dr Bull s Cough Syrup to restore a smile and Salvation Oil for aches. It wittily reflects on kings and their fleeting rise and fall as a moral aside.
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Dr. Bull
Salvation Oil
Empress Eugenie Aids Amiens in Cholera Crisis
A Chicago News account recalls Napoleon III era cholera in Amiens with Empress Eugenie visiting hospitals daily. She consoles a dying man and remarks that when cholera grows violent it ceases, a stance that purportedly helped steady public fear as the epidemic waned.
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Europe
Napoleon Tlf
Amiens
Eugenie
Earthquake Shocks Guaymas Mexico Causing Widespread Fright
A heavy quake tremor was felt in Guaymas Mexico triggering widespread fear but causing little actual damage or injuries according to early reports.
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Guaymas
Mexico
Old Soap Compared to New Electric Brand
Kleine Electric Soap has sold daily for 24 years and now is claimed to be as good as the traditional soap. A grocer can supply it and buyers are advised to take no other. Chicago anarchists mark their third anniversary of an execution, but the event proceeds were subdued.
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State Auditor's Department
State Board
Minnesota
Carl Graunke
Berton
Carver County
Everett W. Fish
A. K. Frain
Great West
John Lathrop
Alliance State Central Committee
Stillwater
Fish
Frain
Michael Fahey
Ellsworth
Sioux Falls
Commercial House
Morse
Faubey
Eighth Street
Fahey
Duluth
Atchison Globe
Chicago
Potter Dru
Chemical Corporation
Boston
State St
Tenacious Clutch of Dyspepsia Promoted by Bitters
An old advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and related symptoms such as heartburn and nervousness, notes corn crop failures in western Nebraska, warns of a potential incurable lung threat from a sore throat, mentions a revised remedy, and reports a railroad conductor William G. Vallie killing his wife then dying by suicide in Corsicana Texas. Garricco Tea is claimed to renovate blood and restore color.
Republicans seek statue for Garibaldi in France
French Republicans propose erecting a statue in honor of Garibaldi for his services to France during the defence against Germany in 1870 71.
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Garibaldi
France
Germany
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