Earthquakes sweep from coast to Minnesota shocking Charleston
Aug 31 shocks centered near Charleston cause widespread ruin in Clareston area. City remains in ruins with telegraph and rail cut, many dead and over 100 wounded, property losses estimated at 8 to 10 million dollars. Relief efforts hampered by isolation as rail lines twisted and derelict ships seek shelter in harbor.
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United States
Minnesota
Charleston
Associated Press
Clareston
Southern Telegraph Company
Greece
America
Sunday School Committee Proposes Prize Plan to Boost Attendance
The Sunday Sabbath school committee, meeting after the Sabbath school, discussed increasing attendance by awarding neat pocket knives to each scholar in the primary classes on an undisclosed Sunday. A Sunday school concert will be held in a few weeks. The group urged members to persuade neighbors and urge parents to send children, noting parental indifference stems from hard work and worldly desires rather than hostility to the Sabbath school.
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Jacon Keim
Warnen Worst
Warnen Woner
Epxna F. Connor
H. A. Armstrong
Mail routes revised from Bismarck to Glencoe to Livona
Under a new setup mail leaves Steele for Williamsport and intermediates on Mondays and Fridays, returning Tuesdays and Saturdays. Buchanan service runs on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The tri weekly Williamsport to Livona may run Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Letters mailed on named days reach Winchester next evening. Beaver Creek mails reach next day. Terminal postmasters and contractors set arrival and departure times. The main aim is changing service from Bismarck to Glencoe and then Glencoe to Livona.
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Williamsport
Livona
Horsehead Prairie
Winchester
Bismarck
Ofice
Slorsehead
Slattery
Sorsehead
Horsehead Valley
Steele
Buchanan
Beaver Creek
Glencoe
Wealthier Deuel farmers resist 75 cent wheat sale
A Deuel county area report notes wealthy farmers stored wheat last fall expecting a dollar in spring. Current prices show wheat at 68 cents, causing discontent. One farmer who sold at 70 cents later bought some of the same lot at 60 cents for seed. Also, samples of new spring wall paper styles are available from R L Durant & Co in Bismarck.
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Dan Eisenberg
Postoffice
Bismarck
DAK
Deuel County
R. L. Durant & Co
William McCrory
W.L. Gardner
Winona
Squire Waterbury
Armstrong
Gardner
Justice Weller
Squire Campbell
Campbell
In Town and Out and Local Commerce Notes
Weather friendly, ads for Frisby oils and lead, and a roundup of town notices. County Commissioners meet Monday, survey work at Fort Rice, preaching Sunday, and local business from jewelry to rail labor to mail routes. Reports on crops, frost damage, millets, and community events weave through a dense roster of residents, transports, and upcoming political primaries.
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Recono
Blunt
Dak
Captain Cotton
Central
Dakota
Frisby
Annie M. Scott
Sarah Thornton
Bismarck
J. B. Brock
W. L. Yeater
E. Wood
Stella Edick
Auuie M. Scott
U.S. Shelly
Rt. 8
Lockton
Devil's Lake Country
Yankton
Smith
Cherry Grove Township
Williamsport
Capt. Cotton
Will Campbell
Will Packer
Logan Township
W. Hawkes
Virginia
Yeater
Woodmanse
Steele
John Lloyd
Central Dakota
Ellendale
Leola
Dunn & Co
Stouder and Potter
Winchester
Livona
C. C. Livingston
Wesley Baker
Burouk School
Devil's Gulch Bridge
Archambault
E. A. Lilly
Hoskins
McIntosh County
Lilly
Anovil
Prophecy Foretells End of World This Year 1886
The Scotland Duking Crown paper notes a French astrologer’s 1506 prophecy that the world ends when St George's feast falls on Good Friday, St Mark's on Easter, and Corpus Christi on St John's Day all in one year. It claims 1886 fulfills this and urges delinquent subscribers to settle debts at the office.
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Scotland
Nostradermus
Rail chiefs push for Bismarck rail access in North Dakota
Ellendale Commercial reports Chicago rail giant plans to extend tracks to Bismarck via the Milwaukee and Rock Island lines. Ipswich branch opens through McPherson county toward McIntosh and Beaver Creek valley, with a Hoskins to Bismarck route by next year. construction to start soon. Also notes Commissioner Sparks ruling penalizing a single woman homesteading after marriage, challenging property rights.
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Ellendale
Chicago Railway
North Dakota
Bismarck
National Capital
Chicago, Milwaukee
Sparks
Copp
Lamar
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Gull River Lumber Co
C. S. Weaver
Edwards & Bradford
Jefferson & Kasson
Bismarck, Dak
Fourth Street
City Hall
Northwest
ST. Paul
Ouse
Sig. Hanauer & Co
J. W. Raysonp
Justus Braan
W. B. Bett
THE
Bismarck National Bank
Gro
W.C. Rapper
Badger & Lilly
E. A. Litny
Soanne
Lone Lake Creek
Horsehead Creek
Bis Nurek, Dak
F.e.stone&co
Emmofs County
Hamburgs
WM. M. Pye, JR
Banner House
Emmons County
T. W. Russell
Bismarck, D. T
John P. Hoagland
Laumbekere
James Holland
Main Street
Oak
Pacific Hotel
Fourth St
Louis Peterson
Proprietor
Donald Stevenson
Long Lake Creek
Oale
Dale
William V. Wade
Horsehead
Gayton
Dal
Jas
W. Barmann
Ginnert Pierce
Geo. P. Fraxnery
J. G. Rapelle
Real Estate and Loans
Union Block
A. Armstrong
Aioay
Williamsport, D.'T
J. Edgerly
D. Kendrick
Dakota Block
Bismarclk
Vy. Barnes
CounssLon
Kool 21
First National Bank Bank
John “A
MPOY
J. F. Font
Fort
Port & Fort
Bisismarek
D, T, mM
John C, Hollembaek
W. EL Wright
Hollembaek
Biswanck, Dax
Harris
HA EY Tererk
Emmons So
8. C
Bill Nye
Jamestown Alert
Northern Pacific
Washington
Oregon
New York Sun
Dem
House of Representatives
Eowna F. CoNxon
H. A. Armstrone
Committee
Our
Fort Rice
Worst
H. Il- Day
E. Brindle
Casselman
Hawley, Minn
Herrick
Isday
Bessie McNiel
Fargo
Connor
Tavonna
Mrs. Wesley Baker
Railroad News
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