Snowy Saturday in Atlantic City and local rivalries
Snow fell for an hour in Atlantic City New Jersey last Saturday. A man advertises a fall sale of a hundred tons of hay. Tron Port DeLacy Wood’s new venture debuts in Two Harbors. The Minneapolis Star claims to be the brightest daily reaching the exchange table. Cloquet endures a tense newspaper war with Vidette and Pine Knot threatening each other while revolvers are readied.
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Atlantic City
N. J
DeLacy Wood
Two Harbors
Cloquet
Knights of Pythias to Join Nebraska Grand Lodge Session
The Minnesota division Knights of Pythias is invited to attend the twenty third annual session of the Nebraska grand lodge in Omaha Nebraska from October 11 to 13. Over five thousand dollars in prizes awaits best drilled divisions in three classes. President Cleveland a member of the order will attend the parade.
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Minnesota
Knights of Pythias
Nebraska Grand Lodge
Omaha
Neb
Cleveland
Order
Record rail track laid this year exceeds past records
The Railway Age reports 6,462 miles of new track laid in the eight months ending Sept 1, a figure only matched in 1882 when 7,000 miles were built that period. It projects 12,009 miles for 1887, likely surpassing 1882’s 11,568 miles as the era's largest total.
Acting Secretary Muldrow Seeks Suit Over Timber Theft
Acting Secretary Muldrow asks the attorney general to sue N. P. Clark of St. Cloud Minnesota for the value of 289 046 feet of timber at 20 per 1 000. The timber is alleged to have been cut between December 1882 and March 1883 from the east half of the southeast quarter and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 20 township 42 range 30 Minnesota.
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Muldrow
N. P. Clark
St. Cloud
Minn
Clark
Township 42
Range 30
Minnesota
Wichita clerk J A Stewart jailed for liquor law violation
J A Stewart of Wichita Kansas received seventeen years and four months in county jail and a fine of 20800 dollars plus costs for violating the prohibition law. He pleaded guilty to an indictment of two thousand fifty counts alongside Herman, owner of the West End Drug Store, who cannot be found and is thought to have left the country. The sentence is described as the heaviest ever in the state for liquor law violations.
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J. A. Stewart
Wichita
Kas
West End
Herman
Stewart
Minnesota Forest Areas Reach 30 Million Acres
Washington dispatch reports Minnesota’s total forest area at 30 million acres, 59.3 percent of the state. Of this, 2,030,726 acres are on farms, 6.8 percent of the forest total, with farm forest to total farm area at 15.1 percent. Unimproved farm land not in forest sits at 4,125,600 acres, 38.8 percent of the farm total, urged for reforestation. The state’s 1880 census figure of 11 billion board feet, debated by some as high or low, would yield only one year’s supply for Northwestern mills at 10 billion.
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Washington
Division of Forestry
Agricultural Department
Minnesota
Sundberg proposes criminal news as a separate supplement
F G Sundberg of the city writes to the Minneapolis Tribune with a suggestion on editing a newspaper. He proposes arranging all criminal news as a supplement so readers may choose to read it and prevent children from accessing the material, citing the Reed investigation at Stillwater as an example.
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F. G. Sundberg
Minneapolis Tribune
Reed
Stillwater
Mountain Dew Cigar Circulation Baffles Prohibition
In Atlanta whisky sellers have devised a novel contraband method with a cigar named Mountain Dew. The exterior is paper and hollow, filled with liquor. A patron asks for two, pays a dime, bites the end to light and obtains whisky discreetly.
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Atlanta
Motley Seeks County Seat Status Amid New Cass Territory
The Register notes Motley hopes to become the county seat as Cass County organizes, likely soon, with Motley currently in Morrison County. The fertile lands and open government land attract settlers, promising rapid county growth in manufacturing and agriculture once organization occurs.
Sawdust branded brandy stirs prohibition fears
The piece jokes that German chemists reportedly produce a fine brandy from sawdust, mocking prohibitionists by imagining drinkers using a fence rail, roof shingles, or chair legs to obtain liquor. It argues reform would fail if intoxication can arise from boiled sawdust and desiccated window sills.
How to Get Rich Advice From Wealthy Men
Boston Herald collected letters from P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Butler, Erastus Wiman, Russell Sage, and A. Pillsbury on wealth. Core counsel: live within means, avoid speculation, work hard, and add value to employers. Butler favors real estate over time, Pillsbury emphasizes self-improvement, others note sobriety and prudent spending. some discuss leveraging natural forces for fortune.
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Boston Herald
P. T. Barnum
Benjamin F. Butler
Erastus Wiman
New York
Russell Sage
New York Railroader
A. Pillsbury
Minneapolis Miller
West
Ben. Butler
Henry Faxon
Tee
C. A. Pillsbury
Hrastus Wiman
Saloon Sign Warns Patrons Against Credit Requests
Milwaukee Sentinel notes a Third street saloon posting an unusually original sign warning customers not to ask for credit. The sign stands out as a memorable local anecdote in a city feature on barroom humor and business practices.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Third Street
Brainerd News controversy over House File 157
Local papers report House File 157 passage in the Minnesota House and notes party line splits. Dewey, ex enrolling clerk, is accused of aiding a Brainerd daily startup and a larger public controversy grows around the bill’s drafting action. Rail work hints at possible line extension between Brainerd and Fosston.
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Dewey
Brainerd News
Belyea
Fergus Falls Journal
House
Senate
Farmington Tribune
A. Dewey
A Country Weekly
Graceville
Brainerd
Dawson Sentinel
Brainerd & Northwestern
Here
Fosston
Crookston
Motley welcomes new tradesmen found by Brainerd founder
Hon L P White of Brainerd, owner of Motley townsite, visited the village Wednesday and noted that a tailor, jeweler and butcher had moved in since his last visit.
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L. P. White
Brainerd
Motley
Register
Villard Seeks Oregon & Transcontinental Revival
Villard returns as president of the Oregon & Transcontinental, a company he founded to fund rapid completion of the Northern Pacific. His credit maneuvers bolstered the road with Transcontinental loans, but ultimately toppled its credit structure while European capital, including German financiers, remained confident enough to reinvest in the United States.
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Villard
Oregon & Transcontinental
United States
Portland
Minnesota items list local events and incidents
Minnesota news item roundup reports St. Cloud street railway launch and Fergus fair opening with strong agri stock races. It notes Waseca schools, Park region fair deficit, a fatal wagon accident near Montgomery, Catholic seminary land purchases near Fontenac, Stillwater YMCA lectures, and other local notices including a redwood Falls councilman fall, a Duluth boy’s explosive accident, and parish leadership changes.
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Pipestone
P. Lodge
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Alden
Park Region
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Montgomery
Fontenac
Stillwater
Father Donovan
Father Denehy
Faribault
Albert Lea
W. S. Mathews
W. E. Truax
Breckinbridge
Geo. E. Stephens
St. Paul
H. D. Chollar
Board of Education
Redwood Falls
Ingersoll
Donnelly
Ignatius
Bob
Ed Wilson Escapes Charge Fined Fifty Dollars
The Motley Register remarks that Ed Wilson avoided a charge from Mrs. Courtney of Wheelock and was fined $50. It notes this is the second time in a month he has dodged a punishment that could have meant long imprisonment, and doubts he will fare better if arrested again in this locality.
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Ed Wilson
Cure for Ulcer on Upper Lip by Blood Specific
A Kentucky letter from Mrs. W. P. Canxon recounts eight years of an upper lip ulcer cured after a course of 18 bottles of the Specific. She praises renewed health and appetite, claiming the cancer-like ulcer has healed. A second testimonial from W. T. Witkins says two bottles cured a flesh abrasion quickly. The Swiftspecific Co advertises Blood Elixir as a universal cure for ulcers eruptions and syphilitic poisoning, sold by Johnson & Bain.
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W. P. Canxon
Trenton
Todd Co
Johnson & Bain
Green's August Flower Promises Dyspepsia Relief
Dyspepsia is dreadful and liver trouble is misery as the piece extols how Greasy and irregular meals harm digestion. Green's August Flower is praised for reforming this condition and restoring health, urging readers to ask their druggist for a bottle at seventy five cents.
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Green
August Flower
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