Pop Weed Tales From Dakota Prairie Mysteries
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts Dakota lore about pop weed a fast rolling prairie plant with a Hubbard squash sized head. It explodes upon impact releasing needle like seeds that injure stock and terrify Indians and cattlemen alike in the Brule Agency region. botanists have yet to identify the weed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Pease
Chicago Tribune
Dakota
Big Muddy
Missouri
Prairies
Brule Agency
Plains
Missouri River
Question of Small Bills Stresses Bank Requests for Treasury Help
Chicago banks seek small denomination notes to fulfill large rural orders and press for government support. A query to U S Treasurer Wyatt was answered with a note that small bills are exhausted after June 1887 and will be supplied as funds allow, with redemption only for mutilated notes. farmers favor paper certificates over heavy coin for transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James W. Wyatt
United States
Treasury Department
New York
The Division Movement North Heads North Dakota Committee
The Fargo Argus notes the north Dakota division executive committee is led by Colonel Clement. It argues Hon. Johnson Nickells of Jamestown would have energized the movement due to his long‑standing views and high regard with residents. Nickells secured Jamestown’s insane asylum and influence on legislative appropriations, a model of action over idle talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fargo
North Dakota
Clement
Johnson Nickells
Jamestown
Nickells
Grand Forks
Bismarck
Three per cent a month toast haunts Dakota progress
At a Watertown bankers banquet a leading banker proclaimed three per cent a month as a shadow over Dakota. The speech denounces loan greed, warns it robs homes, farms, schools, and churches, and calls for the shadow to deepen until honest industries vanish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conkling
Watertown
Dakota
Bridge Disaster at Chatsworth Exceeds Previous Excursions
An Inter Ocean report on the Toledo Peoria and Warsaw wreck details a record excursion train of fifteen coaches and two engines that plunged from a culvertbridge near Chatsworth. Engineer McClintock was killed, passengers perished or injured, and survivors recall the crash as flames and collapsing timber while relief efforts sparked by Chatsworth residents were praised amid rumors of robbery and arson.
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CarcaGco
Inter Ocean
Peoria
Chatsworth
Toledo
Warsaw Road
Illinois River Bridge
McClintock
Armstrong
Toledo, Peoria and
Warsaw
Tie
Vos
Eureka
Abington
The Sanitary Trains Amid War Preparations
Discussion of European sanitary services notes France has about a dozen sanitary trains, while armies like Germany and Russia already have robust systems. It argues mass mobilization will require better evacuation and care for the wounded, highlighting France's current insufficiency and the improvised nature of makeshift trains.
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Europe
Chevaliers de Marte
France
Sanitary Train: a Moving Hospital on Rails in War
A sanitary train now runs with doctors nurses pharmacists officers and engineers forming a self contained hospital. The train includes ambulances linen medicine cuisine and provisions cars connected by central passage allowing rapid access to services.
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Society For Aid
Faris
Havre
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M. Pasteur
England
New York Tribune
Koch
Lower Main Street
Koch’s Opera House
J. M. Gaines
J. F. Arnett
Buckeye Hardware
Gleason, Baily & Co’s
Fireman’s Outfit
Caines & Arnett
R. McMillen & CO
Ethan
Webb Gillingham
A. ER
A. Fuller
Schwarner
Mitchell
Mt. Vernon
James River House
Main Street
Woonsocket
M. M. Hitchcock
der K. Derson -Smith
Gunder K. Gunderson
Sioux Falls
Montgomery Ward & Co
Wabash Avenue
F. Weller
J.S. Daniels
Agj
Jing
Ional
Clark
F.c.champeny
Mitchell, Dak
Ake
Josie Hw
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