28 Oct 1887
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1887
Page
1
Minnesota cities push for rail connections to Duluth and better regional ties while debates flare over postal rules and a Duluth tax for a statistics secretary. The Beaulieu bonds, White Earth self-help claims, and anarchist cases stir local concerns as press towns weigh constitutional questions and economic aims.
Readers learn that US forest lands cover about 500 million acres, with farmers owning roughly 185 million acres or 38 percent. The piece argues farmers are ideal stewards, preserving woodlands and planting millions of trees, contrasting past havoc with clearings to present care across western states.
Oddities from across the country include a man in Oxford Massachusetts finding a red squirrel body in a catchall, a Belgian belief in an owl eggs omelet curing drunkenness, a Wilkes-Barre watch returned after 17 years via a confessional, and a 69 year old man with a 7 year old bride in Pennsylvania. Also noted are an owl egg remedy, a hair-covered hen in Florida, a 22 ounce gold nugget found near Atlanta Idaho, a 3200 mile Texas to Washington passenger, a log-house treasure of 1260 dollars, a 20 year wait for marriage leading to a breach of promise suit, a copper adze-like relic from Wisconsin, and a premium list ad from the Minneapolis Tribune.
The Mille Lacs Indians are ordered to move immediately to the White Earth reservation. Four townships are included in the order and about 500,000,000 feet of pine will soon be logged by the Minneapolis and St. Cloud pine land ring. The Indians are left with no rights as sharks and officials press their claim.
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