Notable literary figures and relatives in Europe noted
In England Mrs. Humphry Ward is praised as a leading literary figure. Mme Daniel Wixson, Grevy’s daughter, plans to write her father's life and moves in Parisian society. A New York Tribune writer critiques Zola’s imagination. Sir William Fraser writes on the Gladstone family. Emilia Pardo Bazan is loved in Spain and greeted on return to Coruna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Humphry Ward
David Grieve
Seine
William Fraser
Edinburg
Gladstone
William
Scotland
Emilia Pardo Bazan
Spain
Madrid
Coruna
Senora Bazan
Odd Local Tales From A Pond To A Wedding Ring
A Florida spy in Jefferson county was injured by an alligator tail and broke his leg in two places. A Georgia cow drowned after a fifty pound turtle seized her nose in Aycock's creek. A man in Georgia bought a pig that fled back to its owner swimming across a pond. A New York bride carried a small alarm clock that rang one as the clergyman declared them married. Clarksville Indiana marked its first wedding ceremony by a resident minister, May 19, after 110 years of incorporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson County
Fla
Richard Mack
Miller County
Aycock
Georgia
New York
Clarksville
Jeffersonville
Ind
New Lining for Bearings and Other 19th Century Innovations
A German report describes a bearing lining made from compressed vegetable parchment. A gold aluminum alloy yields a purple jewelry value. Copper iron sheets show extreme thinness with 18 000 sheets per inch. Teak’s oil content aids shipwrights by preventing rusting nails. A ballast pendulum system using water cylinders aims to stabilize ship rolling at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
MANY FAIR WOMEN AND HOW THEY ARE DESCRIBED
A scattered survey of women from several regions and groups. It notes a pAvenTER of the dean of West minster leading a drama group for the poor and describes Hungarian women as tall and graceful walkers. It also mentions legal exemptions for British and Irish peers, soil microbes, and scientific claims about life extension and hydrophobia studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Hagar
Ishmael
Hungary
Great Britain
Scotland
Ireland
House of Lords
Sterling Kaick in town as Danbury visitors list grows
Ld Kaick of Sterling, Charley Burtis of Beaver Creek, and others visited Williamsport area this week. The column notes numerous local residents visiting Bismarck, Danbury, and Williamsport, with events from politics to fires and farm life across Emmons and Burleigh counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmons County
Sterling
Ld. Kaick
Charley Burtis
Beaver Creek
Lynn
Orchant Connor
Bismarck
G. W. Rawlings
Williamsport
George Jennings
Pacific Hotel
Encircling the Globe and Everyday Life Bits
A survey of odd facts recounts Canan barbers using bowls for lather without brushes, a six mile wide locust swarm darkening Graham's Town in Cape Town, the use of gass beads as money in parts of Africa, values of blue beads in Masai trade, and Verchojansk as a record cold locale at 81 degrees below zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham's Town
Cape Town
Africa
Masai
Dovantier
Verchojansk
Parisman Tower Projector Earnings and Odd Facts
The fragment notes Tunf Eiffel tower in Paris earned 810 million for its projector, mentions German parliament members as cigar makers, a Paris Berlin pneumatic tube link, and historical tidbits about horse shoeing in England. It also cites two ancient yew trees in Eure, coal use in London, and Derby Day adjournments of Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eiffel
Paris
George Eiffel
Berlin
England
William the Conqueror
British Isles
Department of the
Eure
France
London
House of Commons
The Queerest Of Things In A Midwestern Chronicle
A short note details a bottomless bog near Matta wamkeag Maine where bridges sink. It also mentions a world fair peach tree exhibit from Tucker Missouri, and curios from nature noting Dolomedes spiders skimming water and Argyroneta nesting underwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattawamkeag
Mediterranean
Tucker
Ripley County
Irish and English Demographics In 19th Century US
The data shows four times as many Irish men as English men in the United States. New York and Brooklyn’s 2,000,000 residents include 13,000 homeowners. Philadelphia mint stores over 2,000 tons of silver bars 55,000,000 silver dollars and 35,000,000 in gold coin. Tuner factories in the United States use over 300,000,000 eggs yearly for albumen paper. Since 1851 Ireland sent 3,467,516 emigrants. last year the US absorbed 87 percent while only 6 percent went to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
United States
Ireland
England
State Republican Convention Nominates Slated For This Week
The State Convention in St. Farge this week nominated a slate of candidates for statewide and district offices. Delegates selected leadership and outlined platform priorities as the gathering advanced toward the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farge
North Dakota Amendment Bans Lotteries and Gift Enterprises
The second session of the state’s depr etative assembly approved an amendment to section 70 prohibiting lotteries and gift enterprises and authorizing laws to ban sale of related tickets. The measure awaits action in the next legislative session. Secretary of State Joan Furrie signed and sealed the document on July 23, 1892.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Legislativy
Legislative Assembly
Joan Furrrie
Lincoln Guest Offers Root and Shoe Repair in Williamsport
Announcement for repairing services covering root and shoe work with reasonable prices and guaranteed satisfaction. Ilarness repair also offered by Lincoln Guest in Williamsport North Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Guest
Williamsport, N. D
Gull River Lumber Co opens Steele yard for building material
Gull River Lumber Co starts a yard at Steele and will offer lumber sash doors paper and all building materials. The Gull River Lumber Co are large manufacturers at Gull River and Minneapolis with thirty retail yards in North Dakota. Business to be conducted by Jas Johns & Co, agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gull River Lumber Co
Steele
Gull River Lumber Company
Gull River
Minneapolis
North Dakota
Jas. Johns & Co
1000 Bushels for Sale at 35 Cents a Bushel
The undersigned offers 1000 bushels of vats at 35 cents per bushel. Tomas Borromby of Williamsport North Dakota lists repair needs for Deering Plano Buckeye Lodge Walter A Wood mowers and binders and urges prompt orders. Agents 8. E. Kurtz and M. E. Waldroff at Williamsport Lyons and Woopmansr handle inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomas Borromby
Williamsport
N. D
Lodge
Walter A
E. Kurtz
M. E. Waldroff
Lyons & Woopmansr
Blacksmithing and Horseshoeing by Frank Smith
Frank Smith, Burroak Ranch, Emmons County, North Dakota, offers general blacksmithing with a specialty in horseshoeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Smith
Burroak Ranch
Emmons Co
N. D
Mrs Winstow Sootaina Surrow Teething Remedy
The advertisement touts Mrs Winstow Sootaina Surrow as a leading teething remedy used for over fifty years by millions of mothers. It claims to ease teething pain and cure dysentery diarrhoea griping bowels and wind colic, asserting health for the child and relief for the mother. Bottle price is 2 cents.
Yoke of Work Oxen For Sale Near Williamsport
A yoke of good work oxen an eight year old and a six year old offering part cash and part time work with good security. Contact L. Fielder four miles south of Williamsport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Fielder
Williamsport
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Lyons & Woodmanse
Walter A. Wood
Buckeye
Hollingsworth
Lyons & Wonamanse, Steele, N. D
John Gribble & Son
General Merchandise
W. S. Moorhouse
Bedrock
Webb Bros
Bismarck, N. D
M. Wick
John Yegen
Erry Barbery
Main ST
A. C. Willam
Ee National Bank Building
Bisnaroe
Nordak
C.H. Phelps
Gov
Bismarck, N.D
Capital National Bank
Europe
E. L. Whitford
C. G. Little
Stevens Bros
Royal Sewing Machine
Fourth St
Beringtow
Druccists
W. H. DE Graff
Dakota
HO North Dak
Beardsley
J.H. Marshall
Cealer
Lane
Bismanen
Settlor
JaAkkon Dockren
Edward Braddock
Dakem
N. D. Saeeen Heisler
D. R. Streeter
Norta Dakota
Pioneer Journal of the County
Brown Sequamo
Paris Academy of Science
M. Pasteur
Mme. Greville
M. Verestova Grn
Pasteur Institute
Moscow
Brown's Bridge
Chris. Dahle
Spencer
Stovell
Borm
Arthur Wescott
Carr
Napoleon
Michael Cantwell
Winchester
Borny-On
McArthur Keebler
Messrs. Allen, Backhans
Lanterman
Morton County
Burleigh County
Natural Nation
Ezra Thurber
Johnson Hawks
Miss Mahin
Kidder County
Rev
J. W. Mahin
Bogue
Tribune
Burleigh
Fargo
Moorhead
Willy
Missouri
Burke
Emmons
Senator Worst
John McCrory
H. A. Armstrong
Henry van Beek
Hugh Campbell
John Wishek
McIntosh County
McIntosh
Kidder
Logan
Danbury
J. W. Mabin
Glencoe
Dugald Campbell, Sr
Pennsylvania
Iams
Rome
Jamestown
Fort Gates
Francis
A. J. Honstain
Ella M. Mahaney
South Prairie
John Mwhaney
Mionie Honstain
Nels
White
Frank Donnelly
Custer House
Dan Eisenberg
Mr. Remington
Charlie Lock
Clarence Price
Olson
Nels. White
James Holland
Seedsman
Thomas McGowan
Webbs
McGowan
Erard Woorster
Morgan
Bismarck Department
Webb
Jennings
Custer
Hampton
Arconn
Hare & Holly
Sivalia
F. Ay Ells
Bach
Badger Ranch
Hiram Fuller
H. F. Douglas
Illinois
Iowa
Dakotas
Anna Small
O. H. Hammond
Gov. Burke
Allin
Allen
J. J. Clark
Morton
Edward Yeager
Benson
J. J. Wamnberg
Congress
M. N. Johnson
Nelson
Supreme Cour
Guy C U. Corliss
Grand Forks
Andrew H. Burke
Cass
C. A. M. Spencer
Walsh
O. M. Dahl
C.S. Walker
Barnes
L. E. Booker
Pembina
J. M. Devine
LaMoure
F. B. Fancher
Stutsman
W. G. Lockhart
Dickey
N. C. Lawrence
Stark
C. F. Wilbur
Rolette
P. H. Rourke
Ransom
Agriculture and Labor
D. N. McMillan
Cavalier
Pollock
Capt. Michels
Benson County
Por
Tom
TueEne
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