Cotton Goods Display At Newmarkets Exposition
Exhibition shows a cotton plant and a display of cotton goods woolen goods and other dry goods and notions at Newmarkets with an offer to demonstrate any style of cotton products.
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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1887
Page
4
Exhibition shows a cotton plant and a display of cotton goods woolen goods and other dry goods and notions at Newmarkets with an offer to demonstrate any style of cotton products.
Inter Ocean announces rates and official status at Devils Lake in Ramsey County Dakota. Includes notes on land law debates, railroad title disputes, and a university appointment. Mentions President Cleveland manuscript plans and a proposed travel book titled Excursions Into the Unknown.
Opinion piece attacks the General Land Office and Ex Congressmen Sparks for harming western settlers in Dakota. It details a dispute over indemnity lands granted to the Northern Pacific railroad, sold to purchasers who built farms and improvements. The article warns of rising conflict as the government moves to undo titles and dispossess rightful owners amid reform.
The Fargo convention brought Democrats and Republicans together for a nonpartisan push for division. It endorsed the address to voters, argued division is economical, citing rail tax disparities and county wealth, and clarified division precedes statehood.
The piece contrasts British civil service clerks who allegedly kill time with industrious Washington clerks, and notes a punchy series of anecdotes about laundry fashion and frugal dress, including a Basuto finding a bottle of French brandy and a journalist warning against unreadable signatures. It weaves social observation with stray notices and small anecdotes from Chicago, Pioneer Press, and New York Tribune.
Notice of an election to be held on November 8 at multiple Ram sop county precincts to decide on division along the seventh standard parallel and on prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. Ballot options read For Division, Against Division, For the Sale, Against the Sale. Polls open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Devils Lake October 8, 1880. County Clerk J. A. Percival lists voting precincts and appointed judges by precinct.
Annual election notice set for November eighth at polling places in Ramsey County in Dakota Territory. One County Commissioner to be elected for the Third District. Polls open 9 AM to 5 PM. Dated Davila Lake Ramsey County October 8, 1887. Signed Jonny H. Percival Lt Register of Deeds Ex-Officio.
Owain notes cranberries priced per quart in local markets. No further details on sellers, quantities, or dates available.
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