Garrison Romance Ends With Manila Plans Interrupted
Armstrong reaches the Presidio then learns Mrs Garrison may sail with Stockman to Manila. He spots her on the China deck, roses in hand, signaling a farewell that leaves him both shocked and humiliated as Amy Lawrence greets him ashore. The scene hints at deeper tensions and forthcoming revelations.
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Eace
Paciic
Mr. Gray
Canker
Ling
Ind
Amy Lawrence
Glencoe
Armstrong
Palace
Mrs. Garrison
Gray
Mrs. Frank
Presidio
Cherry
Garrison
Camp Merritt
Cavaliera
Frank
Honolulu
Billy Gray
Mre
Stockman
Witchie
Witchis
Mia
Market Street
China
Mr. Prime
Immigration surge expected in North Dakota this spring
Reports to immigration bureaus indicate a large foreign influx into the state in the spring with rising demand for prepaid tickets from across the northwest. Germans and Scandinavians plan to send for relatives, aiming to bring them over this winter or early next spring. Burlington reclining chair cars operate two daily trains between St. Paul Minneapolis and Chicago, advertised as the best and most roomiest option for travelers buying Burlington tickets.
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Bismarck Tribune
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Burlington
Crookston College Announces 14th Term Start
Crookston College will open its fourteenth term on September 1, 1899 at Crookston Minnesota. The school claims to be the best and most practical in the Northwest and offers catalogue and information on request. Inter Ocean advertises original up to date office stationery designs printed with new type on linen or rag paper at satisfactory prices.
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Northwest
Crookston College
Crookston, Minn
Inter- Ocean
Local Bargain Sale On Sewing Machines And Mills
A small listing announces closeout bargains on first class fanning mills and White sewing machines. Pros ser and Serumgard referenced in brief, with emphasis on a great bargain.
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Prosser & Serumgard
Advices Young Men To Come To York North Dakota
A letter from Hiram Brown dated October 17 at York North Dakota urges young men to settle there. He describes moving from Utica Missouri in 1888, locating 24 miles east of York, living ten years, and praising the good country, water, cheap fuel, and strong schools. He notes land selling for eight to ten dollars per acre and calls the area healthy with a light atmosphere, urging homeseekers to seek a home.
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York
N. D
Utica
Hiram Brown
Island Lake
Bocas
Wu. Keaton
Prairie Creek
Ind
Does parming pay
Turtle Mountain Star notes land investors and settlers detailing George A. Blose’s 1897 to 1899 land work near Perth Devils Lake and a North Dakota crop plan tale. It includes 320 acres of land, 100 cultivated, yields of wheat soy flax and potatoes, and a positive testimonial from A J Weaver about farming, schools, and prospects.
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Turtle Mountain Star
George A. Blose
Rolette County
Perth
Devils Lake
Clay City
Ind
North Dakota
A. J. Weaver
North Dakota land praised by Rev Davin Holnoxe
Rev Davin Holnoxe writes from North Manchester Ind praising the Great Northern Railway region in North Dakota for land investment. He cites 20 to 50 percent annual gains from tillage, growing crops, mild summers, cold winters, and low taxes with available homestead lands and relinquishments. He urges eastern renters to consider buying and moving west.
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North Manchester
Ind
North Dakota
Great Northern Railway
N.D
Davin HoLnoze
Home on 160 acre Missouri farm invites settlers
Immigrant from Indiana recounts success near Rolla Missouri since 1896. He owns 70 acres cultivated and 11 years farming in the area. Wheat and oats yields are noted and he praises climate, timber, butter making, and stock raising. He advises other Indiana friends to settle, praising Great Northern emigrant support and urging prompt action.
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Mars
N. D
Gilead
Ind
Rolla
Indiana
Great Northern
North Dakota Homestead Tales From Prairie to Perth
Island Lake and Perth letters recount beginnings in 1897 1898 with meager funds blossoming into productive farms. Accounts from Wu Keaton Micwsrt Buccner and others describe 40 160 acres homesteads compact sod houses, good wells, warm wages 2 to 2 50 daily and pride in frontier life.
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Perth
Mount Morris
Ill
North Dakota
Cheap land, thriving farms lure eastern settlers
In Grand Harbor area and nearby Indiana migrants describe cheap, fertile land with climate, wood, water, and crops. They praise 480 acres and 400 under cultivation with 2,200 bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of barley, plus orchards, poultry, and butter making, urging others to relocate to file on land or buy on crop plans.
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Great Northern Railway
Great Northern Railway Company
D. A. Murer
North
Manchester
Indiana
Grand Harbor
North Liberty
Ind
A. B. Lamaepee
Farm Help Wisconsin Farmer Says Need For Trained Labor
A Wisconsin farmer argues that farming demands specialized knowledge, and that competent but objectionable workers are scarce. He suggests farmers could hire themselves as employers if prudent and economical, noting the misalignment between farming as a calling and current training. He warns that lack of proper training drives youths to leave for the city.
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Wisconsin
Farming as a calling and the farmer’s rightful place
The text argues that farming offers ample opportunity for brains and lifelong skill, not mere hard routine labor. It criticizes the old notion that farming breeds only simple labor and urges cultivating talent, pride, and education in agriculture, citing improving outcomes and respect for North Dakota volunteers praised by General Lawton.
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Bismarck
Lawton
Treumann
North Dakota Volunteers
North Dakota
The Finest Limited Train From St Paul and Minneapolis
The Burlington train from St Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago is electric lighted and steam heated with superior comfort beyond other trains. Remember this when buying railroad tickets. The temple of the soul is ram shacked in each debauch.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
Burlington
Svery
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