Fire in Essen bakery destroys building. multiple deaths reported
In Essen, a three story bakery building caught fire morning, killing and injuring several. Among the dead are Marie Prudean and John Phillips. Mary Trudean also died. Rescue attempts failed for two people suspended from windows. Investigation attributes the blaze to a boiling lard pot. loss estimated at 10,000. An inquest is underway.
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Essen
Sven
Ogy
Jo Ujured
Marie Prudean
Mary Blake
Son Prudean
Mr. Bowman
Annie Bowman
Will Reer
John Phillips
Mary Trudean
Jock
Blake @ Trudean
Im. Cowan
Trudean
Conan
Fujy
Abe Rnst Essen
Charles Ausbecker
Storm Damage Hits Scotland and Bon Homme County
A severe rain and wind storm devastated Scotland Dak last night injuring crops and buildings. Scotland flax mill suffered major damage with 100 feet of the west end ruined, while Lavender Spanagel’s store and church chimneys lost sections. A new Hale house looks doomed to be torn down and rebuilt. Captured by fear, townspeople sheltered in cellars as the storm passed. The area reports excellent grain harvests despite the destruction. A cholera infant buried and an elderly 88 year old man laid to rest add to a day of sobering events. The Episco pal church frame will begin next week and Gen Campbell plans a new county monthly boom paper starting August 1.
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Scotland Flax Tow Company
Lavender & Spanagel’s
Presbyterian Church
F.G. Hale
Bon Homme County Bank
J. A. Dickson
Scotland
John Serr
Horace Newcomb
New Episcopal Church
C.T. Campbell
Bon Homme County
Dakota
Lightning Hits Berlew Barn Wipes Out Livestock and Hay
A storm damages E. E. Berlew's Alexandria barn. four horses, a binder, and hay are destroyed by lightning. The event adds heavy loss to a young owner who is partially insured. School bond votes face likely defeat as crowd debates district expansion and future classroom space. A local delegation plans wintering in southern California, departing September 1 with Mitchell delegates. a binder accident victim nears recovery. Dr. Conlin plans a ninety day California trip. Lake Madison emerges as a popular summer resort for residents.
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Alexandria
E. E. Berlew
California
Mitchell
Dr. Conlin
Lake Madison
Secretary Lamar Refines Policy on Public Lands Use
Washington July 29 Secretary Lamar continues refining policies on land use as he rules that taking up public lands for life requires dedication to agriculture. He cites prior guidance by Sparks as a foundation for decisions affecting settlers like John L. Skohen who began farming in a land section.
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Township 123
Range
Aberdeen Land District
Dakota
John
Skohen
Lulu
Washington
Lamar
Sparks
John L. Skohen
Board details cruiser repairs and limits on trials
The Whitney appointed board reports the Atlanta is practically useless until repairs on eight inch gun carriages and clip circle are completed. Damage to the gun fittings suggests tests cannot be safely conducted. Similar conditions apply to the Boston and likely the Chicago. The panel will finish this week and adjourn without executing Secretary Whitney’s test plan.
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Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Whitney
Prices Drive Tobacco Trade Yet Higher in July
New York reports unprecedented excitement among tobacco dealers as leaf prices rise 50 to 100 percent in July with more increases likely. Manufacturers raise prices to meet car supply control demands, notably Lorillard adding a cent per pound on plug tobacco amid speculative activity driving the surge.
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New York
Lorillards
Death of an Old Jeweler
Newell Watson, 73, longtime jeweler of Lombard Ills and a prominent figure in the trade since 1854, died early this morning in Clinton Conn while away for health. He was one of Cucaco's best known merchants and had resided in Illinois.
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Cucaco
Rabid Dog Bite Lands Man in County Jail Ward
Robert W. Boyd aged 36 was bitten by a rabid dog two weeks earlier. He contracted hydrophobia last night and was moved to the insane ward of the county jail.
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Robert W. Boyd
Militia to Arm Troops Before September Encampment
Hunon reports that before the militia encampment on September 1 troops will be armed with Springfield rifles and two new brass field pieces will be purchased.
Purveyor of Pills and Train Wreck Suspect in Alleged Plot
Jenks recalls a dream of a doughty champion defeating many giants as a joke about Pierce’s tiny purgative pellets. George H. Whitney, a locomotive engineer, is arrested in Kansas City for wrecking an 8 Missouri Pacific freight train near Independence in 1886 during a major railroad strike. He denies involvement and says he has no knowledge of the wreck.
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Jenks
Pierce
George H. Whitney
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Independence
Great Southeast
Whitney
Birmingham
Ala
A Woman's Sweet Will and the Battle Against Female Ailments
An 19th century notice promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic and nerving remedy for women suffering dragging pains nausea and weakness. The text frames health decline as a female issue and urges self treatment with the advertised remedy as a first duty. It notes druggists carry the product.
A Nation's Fall. African King and Palm Wine Debauchery
A Congo region tribe declines under a king addicted to palm wine. The king orders all to drink, houses burn, and deaths mount as the tribe collapses, with Wambango subduing the remnant. Dr. Harrison evades a drunken royal order and escapes with his party.
British Museum Library Holds Over Two Million Volumes
The British Museum Library now houses more than 2,000,000 books occupying three miles of eight foot high shelves. The expansion has made arrangement a serious challenge for authorities. Queen Victoria favors tapioca pudding and is described as a sturdy eater and moderate claret and red wine drinker.
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British Museum Library
The
British Museum
Queen Victoria
American Magazines Sell Better in England Than UK Titles
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report states that the five leading American magazines reissued in England outsell the combined twenty-five British magazines, illustrating stronger appeal for U.S. periodicals across the Atlantic.
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England
Thenited
Kingdom
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Solar System Velocity Ranges Reported by Computers
An Arkansaw Traveler note reports two computer estimates of solar system motion through space. One computation gives about 10,000,000 miles per year, while another method yields roughly 525,000,000 miles annually.
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Arkansaw
Justice Field Refuses to Sign Rail Ticket in Portland Trip
An elderly man, later identified as Justice Stephen J. Field of the U S Supreme Court, refused to sign a railroad ticket at a Southern Pacific office in Oakland. He handed over the fare of thirty dollars, demanded the ticket unsigned, and only after being recognized as a justice did the clerk stamp the ticket.
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Justice Field
Southern Pacific Company
Portland
United States
Stephen J. Field
Supreme Court of the United States
San Francisco Chronicle
Public School Oddities Spark Buffalonian Debate
In a Buffalo Courier excerpt a remark on student exam answers highlights surprising notions of New York City and famous landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, elevated railways, and Jay Gould. The anecdote contrasts modern schooling with a nod to historical figures as humor and critique arise.
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Buffalo
New York City
Statue of Liberty
New Yorkpay
Zoological Gardens
Jay Gould
Buffalo Courier
Kansas City Exposition Building and Plans
Kansas City prepares for a large fall exposition. The National Agricultural Exposition opens in September with a stone brick iron and glass building covering 255 by 240 feet. James Goodwin leads as president with Hamilton S Wicks as vice president and secretary and John W Ryckman as manager.
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Kansas City
James Goodwin
Hamilton
Burglary Reports Prompt Caution at Home
The mistress warns her maid to bolt the door at the foot of the beck stairs after burglaries are reported. She explains the reason and questions whether visitors would come upstairs to rooms where people are weeping. Boston Tramerriot tone noted.
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Boston
Trameriot
Signe of Summer Flights at the Beer Garden
A fragment from a humorous caption paragraph notes the arrival of Mrs. De Goode for the summer and inquires about her movements while Wile De Goode just enters, suggesting social chatter in the Omaha scene.
Wit Snippets from an Era of Quips and Headlines
A collage of satirical quips, local witticisms, and obituary-style mockery from 19th century papers. The items lampoon cultural figures, mispronunciations, and everyday scenes, concluding with a Dakota Bell mock obituary for William Horatio Skinner.
Inside Figures in a Real Estate Pitch on New Lots
An investing scene set two years hence shows a broker offering inside figures on corner lots along Sellington avenue near a planned railroad through Jayesburg. The dialogue frames appetite for land near development with a playful tone and anecdotal asides from period newspaper quips.
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Sellington Avenue
Jayesburg
Doubtful Compliment Sparks Market Talk
A candid exchange between a sharp critic and a judge unfolds amid a bustling scene. The critic praises a portrait yet notes it undervalues the subject’s age, while a reporter probes Mr Chinker on current financial interest and securities.
Notable Figures and Their Quirks Across The Era
A curated snapshot lists diverse figures from politics, business, and letters. It notes Grant-like likenesses, Gerome’s age, McLean’s travels, lottery wealth estimates, Hoar’s wariness of press questions, Gould’s family focus, Mahone’s war stance avoidance, Hewett’s stenographers, Lamar’s cattle hobby, Scollard’s Europe trip, Sage’s childlessness, and West’s women’s college course. It also mentions butterfly authority Strecker, Le Breton’s look, Field’s losses, Sullivan’s Ireland tour, Barlow’s Revolutionary era death, Allen’s wartime baptisms, Thomson’s Yale ties, King’s physique, Carleton’s schooling view, Gillam’s bicycle records, Maxwell’s inheritance, Verne’s Paris trips and wound, Gibson’s age and betrothal, St Clair’s romance, Young progeny, and Brigham Young’s monument debates, and Pike’s Sanskrit translations.
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Bismarck
Gen. Grant
Jean Leon Gerome
John R. McLean
Cincinnati Enquirer
Long Branch
John H. Morris
Senator Hoar
Jay Gould
Mahone
Hewett
New York
Lamar
Jersey
Oxford
Miss
Charles E. West
Brooklyn
Herman Strecker
Reading
America
Dean le Breton
Langtry
Deacon
W. White
Cyrus W. Field
L. H. Harris
Pittsburg
St. Frances
Alexander Sullivan
Chicago
The
Land League In America
Ireland
Peter Barlow
Gen. Washington
Demerara
C. T. Allen
Pontiac
Charles 8. Thomson
Hartford
Conn
Yale Medical School
Will Carleton
Hillsdale
Mich
A. M.gillam
Philadelphia Record
Pennsylvania
F. C. Maxwell
Philadelphia
England
Jules Verne
Amiens
Paris
Walter Murray Gibson
Hawaiian Kingdom
Howard St. Clair
California
John Willard Young
Brigham Young
Iron House
Salt Lake City
Albert Pike
Freemasons
Washington
Gen
Pike
Pressed brick from coal ash and civics touted in San Francisco
A San Francisco concern promotes pressed brick made from coal ash and civics, claiming high strength without baking or burning. The piece also discusses a wild theory on Earth's destruction by polar ice penetrating the globe. It notes heat may affect a piano through board dryness rather than string tension, mentioning spruce as a resonant but temperature-stable wood.
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San Franciso
Civics
Earth
Globe
Oddities In Plants And Trees Across The Nation
A garden rosebush near Murraysville Pennsylvania bears over 800 full blown roses and many buds. A New Lisbon Ohio florist reports a graft of Canterbury bells atop foxglove stalks with perfect flowers. An Iona Michigan resident grows a full orange with one quarter lemon on one side. A Burlington New Jersey buttonwood tree about 150 years old fell, twenty feet in circumference. A Middletown Illinois silver maple sixteen feet around grew from a twig a traveler planted in 1840.
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John A. Connor
Murraysville
Lisbon
Elder Ward
Iona
Mich
Burlington
N. J
Middletown
Neighbor vows violent act over cat dispute
A female caller at police headquarters recounted a quarrel in which she threatened to poison a neighbor's dog and dump its body in the neighbor's yard after a dead cat was tossed into her yard. The exchange showcases escalating threats and police involvement.
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Detroit Free Press
Wooden Headed and Out of My Head Exchange in Somerville Journal
A humorous exchange shows a persistent subscriber berating the editor over odd content. The editor quips that his material comes “out of my head,” highlighting a playful editorial dynamic from the Somerville Journal.
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Somerville Journal
What He Knew and the Green Neighbor Feud
A bill collector questions a small boy on the doorstep about the Green family next door. The boy claims a bigger neighbor boy has earned his beating twice and seeks another clash, per the Detroit Free Press.
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Green
Detoit Free Press
Farm Auction Notice Near Town S J H Root
Six broad sows and pigs fourteen head of cattle cows and calves eleven head of horses mares and Colts Farm machinery including feed cutter grinder mowers rakes hay stacker plows and small implements All to be sold low for cash Inquire on farm just north of town or of J H Root Watchmaker Warne s drug store
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J. H. Root
Warne
Local Land and Real Estate Advertisers in Mitchell
A. B. Hager successor to Hager Brothers offers land attorney and real estate services with contest and appeal focus before the Land Department and loans at low rates with no commissions. James Leslie nurseryman offers ornamentals vegetables flowers seeds and feeds. W. Abury operates land and collection business in Mitchell Dakota.
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A. B. Hager
Hager Brothers
Land Department
James Leslie
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Congo
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Buffalonian Intellect
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Omaha
Madison Square
Hoffman House
New York Sun
Dakota Bell
Kansas
City Exposition
Sarsaparilla
Witte
Aman
Irish Weekly Times
Buffalo Bill
Pittsburg Chronicle
Yan Phon Lee
Yale
Fragrant Hills
China
Albany Journal
New York Mercury
Mme
Norristown Herald
Johnnie
Hannah
Anna
Air
Anner
W. H. Skinner
Bill Skinner
Moses
Thunder
Beakes
William Horatio Skinner
Fornia
Dr. Whitechoker
Misa
Henry George
Clinton Scollard
Europe
Russell Sage
J. Floyd King
Louisiana
Fred C. Hoffman
Attorn
Dak
V. Parmelee
Bank of Dakota
Trans
E.b.brady
Omee
Gale
Mitchell Dakota
Mitche Cor
P. DIX & Daughter
Iness
John D. Lawler
J. E. Gilbert
A.M. Bowdle
Vice Press
N. Grant
Alex Mitcnen
Hale Building
South Main Si
DAK. W. Abbhy
Alex. Mitchell
C. H. Shaw
Propritor
Mitchell, Dakota
Lord & Thomas
Sewsafer
Randolph St
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago & Northwestern
Ry's
St. Paul
Sioux City
Des Moines
Paullman
Duluth
Ashland
Superior
van Claire
M. Los. W
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
T. W. Teasdale
McCullough
M. Wheeler
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