New Year Edition Notes and Dakota State Talk
INTER OCEAN issues a Dakota region sampler with comments on Grand Forks Herald, Bis marck Journal, Steele County Gazette and local fire dept jests. It cites Illinois copy about a Dakota doctor preferring Michigan swamp land to a Dakota county and muses on admission of Dakota as a state with playful prose about North Dakota and statehood.
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Grand Forks Herald
George
Ken
Illinois
Michigan
Dakota
Bonds to refinance county debt urged by citizens
The new county board supports issuing bonds to refund about 15000 of debt incurred as a new county. Warrants have depreciated, causing high costs and looming maturities. Bonds at par, ten years, could stabilize finances, with future property value rising and tax needs reduced. A public vote and enabling act are advised.
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Board of Commissioners
Investments in Dakota Offer Rich Farm Security
An optimistic pitch extols Dakota as a land of vast virgin prairie with rapid farm development. It compares cheaper eastern land costs, strong local growth, and safe loan security to attract investors, noting improved farms, rising values, and abundant railroad-driven opportunities across 320 acres to 820 acres per listing.
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Dakota
Devila Lake
Peerless
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
Atate
Lowery
North Dakota
Manitoba Road extension to northwest reportedly planned this year
Gazette reports in conversation with a railroad official that the Manitoba line will be extended this year. The official has no doubt that the route shown on the latest maps will be the extension path, heading northwest, with plans already laid out.
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Hope Gazetts
Manitoba
Northwast
Christmastime Exposition Notes From New Orleans 1884
Special correspondence from New Orleans describes quiet holidays at the World’s Exposition with free lunch prenda at saloons, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and eager crowds. The piece praises the exhibits, band performances by Prof. Curtie, and the vast scope of the fair, urging newspapers to follow press Exposition access.
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New Orleans
Crescent City
St. Charles
Buffalo Bill
W. F. Cody
Wild West Company
Barnum
James Boys
Idea
Northwest
Echoo
Prof
Curtie
Cincinnati
Music Hall
Salog
Walter Emerson
United States
Permuasion
Press Club
Christmas in Washington and Past Events at the Capital
Christmas in the capital featured church services and charity events at schools and homes with Nellie Arthur and Mrs West among participants. The New Year reception by President Arthur drew a wide social mix, with detailed processions, decorations, and a view of Washington society. Preparations for the 1886 inauguration were under way as civil service debates raged. Moody planned meetings at Mount Vernon and Congregational churches. A New York man notes a coming migration of thousand Missouri-bound families to North Dakota.
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Washington
Cleveland
Ixten-Ocean
Nellie
West
Waite
Arthur
Supreme Court
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court of
District of Columbia
Court of Claims
District Judiciary
United States
Army
Grand Army of the Republic
Cied
White House
Navy
Committee On Public Comfort
Civil Service
Moody
Custor
G Street
Mount Vernon M. E
Weather and market notes from a late 19th century paper
The excerpt blends weather chatter about the Northwest with advertisements and a broad market page. It mentions zero or below weather in the Northwest, a household journal offer, a hog investment quote, and a Chicago grain Wheat market blurb. It also includes land office notices at Devils Lake with several claimants and witnesses listed.
Mortgage Sale Notice of William J McIntyre et al
William J McIntyre and Frances M his wife mortgaged real property to Hamilton Whited. Default on 1884 payment triggers foreclosure by sale. Property described as north half of northeast quarter in section 23 township 168 north range 102 west containing 40 acres with buildings. Sheriff sale set for March 28, 1885 at 2 pm at the registry of deeds in Derile Lake county. Attorney fee of 40 dollars and accrued interest at 12 percent from November 1, 1884.
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Ainey
Taritery
Dakota
Eale
Na Fol
Torwiti
Ramaey
Laka
Ani
Ae Hamilton E. Whithed
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