Man Shot During Jail Break Attempt at City Hall
This morning at city hall Marshal Curtiss, confronting a jail break by a man named Dowdell, fired after the assailant reached the doorway. Dowdell was wounded in the left instep, taken to city hall, and confined, while the incident sparked by a plan to free a woman named Nettie-.
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Curtiss
Kennard
aNecquard House
Bodell
Gyia
Nettie
V Dowdell
Marshal Curtiss
Local Mail Delays Prompt Call for Northwest Reform
Pioneer Press notes the need to improve local and intercity mail service in the northwest. It cites multiple cases of letters delayed or misrouted between St Paul Minneapolis and other cities, urging faster and more reliable delivery despite geographic challenges.
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Pioneer Press
Jyort
Pant
Minneapolis
Novi. Pauland
New York
Hintess
Marshilltown
Iowa
St. Paul
Auity
Northwest
Pond
S D Cook launches live stock daily in Sioux City
S D Cook announces incorporation of Union Stock Yards publishing company to publish Sioux City Stock and News Bulletin an afternoon daily focused on livestock. Capital 5200000, 26 percent paid up. Incorporators include Evans Cook Clough Coe Mabie Van Hoven Carrabine Lye. Press to be Cranston power on ground floor Stock Yards Exchange building. First issue around December 15 with 3 p.m. daily.
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D. Cook
Sioux City
Union Stock Yards Pubishing Company
Fred
I. Evans
Cook
Clough
Coe & Mabie
van Lloven & Co
Carrabine & Lye
Stock Yards Exchange
J. E. Booge “Co
Murder, Luce & Co
Cranston Bower Press
Drovers’ Journal
Chicago
Dividend Declared for Marine National Bank Creditors
The comptroller of the currency has declared another five percent dividend for the creditors of the Marine National Bank of New York City.
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WaAsninGoon
Comptroller of Currency
Marine National Bank of
New York City
Our Standing Army Roles in Peace Time Duty and Training
From the New York Times account a detailed portrait of daily military life in peacetime. It describes reveille guard duty drill meals dress parade taps and religious observance plus post schools libraries and amusements and notes the advances in marksman training and the demanding, disciplined routine governing soldiers at isolated posts.
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James LB. Fry
New York Times
How to Be Graceful in Daily Practice
A Youth's Companion excerpt argues that grace comes from using all bodily powers and daily housework. It notes many girls lack graceful carriage, especially on commencement days, and links a good walk, digestion, complexion, and teeth to daily diligent labor. It adds a brief China Letter about the emperor practicing archery in leisure time.
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China
Butler cites early enlistment of colored troops in New Orleans
Gen. Butler writes to a Boston paper that the first colored troops of the Civil War were not enrolled in Massachusetts. He states that in 1862 he enlisted three regiments of colored men in New Orleans and sent them into action long before colored troops were used elsewhere, according to the Chicago Times.
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Butler
Boston
Massachusetts
New Orleans
Chicago Times
Hay Fever Susceptibility Across Populations
A medical writer notes hay fever affects English and American people most, particularly the upper class and males, while the disease is rare in northern regions. It is also uncommon in France Germany Italy and Spain.
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France
Germany
Italy
Spain
The Light and Memory in a Lone Love Poem
A reflective poem by H. C. Bunner expresses longing and sorrow for a lost beloved. The speaker stays bound to a single guiding light as memory offers pale solace through endless years.
The Beefeaters in London Society and History
The article surveys the Yeomen of the Guard at Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London. It notes about a hundred men, their ceremonial duties on drawing room days, and their attire like penwipers with halberds. It recalls historic tasks from Henry VII onward including dish carrying and bed dismantling.
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Elizabeth
Henry VII
Scotland
Isle of Wight
Henry VIII
London Society
Two Walking Sticks and a Canal Patron's Memento
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps recalls an anecdote about Mo hammed Said and two walking sticks one from de Lesseps and another from an English admiral. The prince guarded conversations about the canal with the cane and Mohammed Said kept the cane beside him until his death. Police later found the Arab who kept the cane and it was returned to de Lesseps as a memento of his patron.
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England
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Manufacturing Asbestos and Paper Pulp Process
The article details an asbestos based pulp manufacturing method. It describes combining 25 percent asbestos fiber with 25 to 85 percent powdered alumina sulfate, washing, and treating with ammoniacal salt solutions, resin soap, and water. The mix is adjusted to a pulpy consistency and finalized with 85 percent asbestos and 5 to 8 percent barytes. The pulp is processed on a paper machine to produce boards and other products including roofing materials and cigarettes.
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Ordy
L'industrie Moderne
Diet of Potatoes Advocated by Revolutionary Thinkers
A fragment from Popular Science News discusses a potato based diet as a radical idea. It claims that reliance on potatoes cannot sustain happiness and critiques land use, arguing for planting diverse crops like wheat and barley instead of potatoes.
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Irelmail
Pilgrim's Progress Rendered in Japanese with Imagery
The Chicago Herald notes a Japanese translation of Pilgrim's Progress with vivid imagery including shaven monks and Yokohama fashion angels. It also mentions a Baltimore court ruling on a husband not liable for a wife's debts, predicting a matrimonial boom in Baltimore.
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Pilgrim’s Progress
Ninto
Illustra
Christian Golian
Vani
Ty Tair
Angels
Baltimore
Monumental
Dreary Sunday Tales and Gentle Gags
A collection of light vignettes and jokes from various papers. It includes a father’s dreary Sunday remark, a child’s prayer misstep, a apple preserves reply, a sly Satan quip, a pants-choking boy at play, a market pepper mishap, a grandpa death joke, and a Needles themed school note.
Barber Wit and Transit Jokes From Urban Rail
A collection of light excerpts from urban humor, including a philosophic barber describing Croton water and bay rum, jokes about hair growth and social philosophy, and a St Louis humor exchange. The passages capture early 20th century wit on everyday life, drink, and travel.
Unclear dialogue scene from German text
A fragmentary exchange shows a leader directing guests to pair with partners while one man is excluded. Miss D criticizes the setup as unexpected, and Mr. C. notes the leader’s instruction to “take what I could get.”
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Mr. C
Jealous of American Ladies in London Society
A Chicago Times comment notes English women’ jealousy of American ladies’ prominence in London society. The piece contrasts editorials on Anglo American social standing and includes literary quips from Dickens and a Boston Courter verse fragment.
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Chicago Times
Notable Americans and World Figures Abroad
A digest of notable public figures and events including Prince Bismarck's rheumatic recovery, Consul General Waller's voyage to England, the Prince of Wales turning 47, and various comments on leaders, writers, and dignitaries such as Dickens Twain Moody and Gladstone. The item also notes Empresses, ambassadors, and civic roles with emphasis on health, travel, pensions, and social engagements.
Heat indicating paint shows excessive current on wires
A transcript notes paint applied to electric wires changes color with heat to signal current strength. Red turns dark and finally black, indicating the current is too strong. A reporter questions Mr Chinker, who replies brusquely that the situation remains the same, with seven percent on solid securities.
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Bostep Transcript
Mitchell Man Pardoned After Manslaughter Conviction
Gov. Church pardoned John Lacey from the Sioux Falls penitentiary. Convicted of manslaughter in Mitchell in 1882, he received a twenty year sentence. Lacey was involved in a drunken quarrel near the Milwaukee tank that led to a fatal stamping. Both parties were railroad workers on the Milwaukee road project.
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Church
John Lacey
Sioux Falls
Lacey
Mitchell
Milwaukee Tank
Milwaukee Road
Sizing them Up Yankton Press
Aberdeen papers publish a call for an anti division convention with county signatures. Yankton county signers include L D Palmer Otto Poemiller J T Sargent D W Maratta Hughes East H E Buell Robert Schnieder Christ Hameister Fred Neth J N Balmat Paul C Hamann J J Fellen with seven other democrats and two scatters. The people of Yankton county want an Aberdeen convention very badly.
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Aberdeen
Yankton County
L. D. Palmer
Otto Poemiller
J. T. Sargent
D. W. Maratta
Hughes East
H. E. Buell
Robert Schnieder
Christ. Hameister
Fred. Neth
J. N. Balmat
Paul C. Hamann
J. J. Fellen
Drunk man robbed near Manitoba depot in Watertown
John Johns from Marshall Minnesota arrived with friends in Watertown and got drunk. He was robbed of a watch and money and found insensible near the Manitoba depot. He barely escaped freezing to death overnight.
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Watentown
John Johns
Marshall
Minn
Watertown
Manitoba
Desperate Indian Jumping Dog Captured and Kills Guards
Jumping Dog, the Indian who fired Cheyenne agency, was captured last night. This morning he attacked guards and stabbed two to death with shears, then killed himself.
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Pierne
Jumping Dog
Train Schedules and Freight Departures Listed
Passenger and freight trains depart east west north and south daily with numerous exceptions by day of week. Arrivals from the east show afternoon and morning trains with Sunday restrictions and several times repeated across directions.
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Bt. Faul
A.m
Sund
Suniday
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