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Flows of the Restless River and Dakota Arrival
A Winona Republican report from the 14th describes a line of over 100 immigrant-driven cars stretching from Winona and St. Peter yards to L. C. Porter Milling, bringing families with horses, cattle, tools, and farming gear to Central Dakota. Many have prior Dakota farm experience and expect to seed wheat and oats and settle. references to Greeley farm in Chappaqua, NY, and Col. Nicholas Smith moving to Kentucky appear alongside notices of seed sales and railway plans. The piece notes prohibition activity, a Dakota Territory petition drive, and a fire at Aurelia Iowa that devastated the business district with $100,000 in losses on $30,000 insurance.
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