Yankton Weather Saga and Civil Service Call, 1897
Historical weather data from South Dakota covers fifteen years with monthly temperatures and precipitation records, noting the warmest month in 1887 and coldest in 1885, along with first killing frost and last spring frost dates. Separate items include Salvation Army drum protests in Yankton, a cough cure advertisement, and a United States Civil Service examination notice set for June 5 1897 with age bounds and eligibility.
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Yankton
Bush Dru
Salvation Army
Ardnance
Sioux Walls
Argus
Salvation Ring
United States
United States Civil Service
United States Civil Service Commission
Cultural farming urged by local advocate drives new methods
Frank Weller promotes soil culture as farmers adopt the Peterson roller and Hal lock cultivator, with B C McCollom and William McDowell planning frequent shallow cultivation to conserve moisture from planting through harvest, following Campbell system examples in the Dakotas and Nebraska.
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Frank Weller
Letcher Blade
Welsler
B.C. McCollom
Mitchell
Clark Farm
Letcher
McCollom
Peterson
Dakotas
Nebraska
William McDowell
Remarkable Tire Slip Aboard Lake Shore Flier
A steel tire on the Lake Shore railroad engine slipped off during full speed into Chicago, yet miraculously did not derail the train. The article notes the improbability of the event given wheel and rod motion and speed, as passengers marveled at the incident.
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Lake Shore
Cleveland
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Chicago a Literary Center in a Wide World
A Chicago man challenges a Boston friend by citing a directory full of eminent writers and poets, asserting Chicago's literary stature with O W Holmes Longfellow Emerson and others. The piece uses multiple dated quotes from Chicago Times Herald to illustrate the city’s literary prominence.
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Chicago
Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Longfellow
Cully
O. W. Holmes
West Side
Ashland Avenue
Chicago Times- Herald
Poultney Bigelow on German Education
In Harper's Weekly, Poultney Bigelow critiques German education and government. He contrasts intellectual freedom with a militarized state, warns American parents about health and time costs of German schooling, and notes Edison’s views on German chemists and labor value. He cites Cobden Lincoln Beecher and Edison as examples Germany could not have produced.
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Poultney Bigelow
Schiller
Goethe
Morumsen
Virchow
Delbruck
Edison
Germany
Cobden
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Ward Beecher
Thomas Edison
Harper’s Weekly
Washington Myth and The Real George Washington
Professor Moses Coit Tyler of Cornell spoke before the Buffalo Contemporary club, arguing Washington’s reputation as a soldier and statesman remains safe but risks humorists who may misremember him as a mythic, perfectly virtuous figure. He cited how Washington’s real traits of reserve, serenity, and self control stood in contrast to the popular image of a uniformly dignified hero.
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Washington
Buffalo Contemporary Club
Moses Coit Tyler
Cornell
Republic
York
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Fab Mitchell Capital
Suday
Esting Dain
Maay
Ube Weather Bureau Records Row
South Dakota
Van
ISO
Tsk
L. O. Vile
L. O. Gale
H.C. Chart
Neseokar
St. P
Momencekers
Trckuta
C. L. McKinley
Will Dodson
Fullerton
Armour
Sioux City
Clough
The
Yan Express
Land Office
Marie Gilbert
Louisiana
Npon
Hammond
William Bulzing
Frank Durant
Parker
St. Mary’s Church
Carlos Newbury
Bouttonieres
Aberdeen
Sir Knights
Hauser
A. Bidwell
United States Marshal
United States Court
Bidwell
Sioux Falls
Scotland
Willis Bass
Grand Opera House
Mr. Bass
Geo. Munger
Athletic Association
John
Philadelphia Press
New York
Southampton
Brindisi
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Yokohama
San Francisco
Bremen
St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
Siberia
Russia
Siberian
Hicks
Smoothedore
Boston Transcript
Philetas
Cos
B. C
L. O. Gals
Miss Casper
A. A. Coffin
Beckwith
May & Suchy
Mitchell, South Dakota
Issu
Europe
City Bakery
Sugar
Asa Dodd
Jing. C. Walrather
O. L. Branson
First National Bank
C. T. Gilman
John D. Wood
A. A. Boynton
C . Swan
W. Saaman
Bila
Stacsis Gawlar
J. O. Walrath
Geo. . Loan
Salid Comfort
D. W. Collins
Gillis Shoe CO
Geo. E. Logan Furniture Co
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