Mitchell Local Notes and Events Highlight January 22 1897
Local items report ill health among C W Priest’s children and W Adams laid up at home. Mt Vernon’s K Johnson visits Mitchell. J Stevens returns from Storm in Bon Homme. Mitchell Dramatic Co rehearses Among the Breakers for a Grand Jan 29 show. Gale visits town. Hope Chapel benefit concert set for Jan 29 at 7, weather permitting. News on McGovern and Mr McGowen’s Newaygo connection. insurance topics tied to Sioux City and Sioux Falls. Public notices announce homeward bound excursions and tax reassessment sales by Dr Burr in Chicago.
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C. W. Priest
W. Adams
K. Johnson
Mt. Vernon
Jee Stevens
Bon Homme County
Mitchell
Retta Goodykoontz
Prescott
Pierre
Faney and Family
Mitchell Dramatic Co
Swood
Arties
Ea Checker
Chess
Whist
Eott & Bidwell
Gale
Japes
Hope Chapel
Edison’s Wonderful Trioscope Private Exhibition at Grand
Sioux City Journal reports Beall hosted about 100 guests for a private preview of Edison's trioscope. Ten scenes showed fluid motion from burning stables to diversions at Coney Island. The device uses instant photography at 46 frames per second on 40 foot film, brightened by an arc lamp and lens system. Tickets: Grand Opera House Friday and Saturday with matinee. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ad follows.
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Sioux City Journal
Beall
The
Grand
Edison
Hudson
Leigh Sisters
Coney Island
Long Branch
Grand Opera House
L. O. Gale's
Congressional News Summary for January 12 15 18
The report traces a sequence of House and Senate actions across January 12 to 18. Bills on affidavits for public lands and alien real estate ownership were advanced, the free homestead bill gained Senate passage, and a dairy product imitation law moved in the House. The army appropriation bill and Nicaragua canal bill remained unfinished business. executive sessions and confirmations occurred, plus a law imposing liquor sale penalties to certain Native Americans.
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House
Senate
Bacon
Georgia
Congress
Francis
Torpedo sinks Relampago. Spanish gunboat attack near Mango Landing
Insurgent torpedo sinks the Relampago while Centinela rescues survivors after an attack near Mango Landing in the Canto River. Six Relampago crewmen are killed and many wounded. Centinela’s commander Puerta is seriously wounded. Reports note Madrid attacks pressure Captain General Weyler toward recall.
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Havana
Manzanillo
River Canto
Fort Guamo
Bosch
Mango Landing
Kimberly Succeeds Rosebery as Liberal Leader in London
Liberal peers meeting at Spencer House in London elect the Earl of Kimberly, former foreign minister, as leader after the resignation of Lord Rosebery. The decision underscores a smooth transition within the Liberal ranks.
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Kimberly Susceeds
Rosebery
London
Spencer House
Earl Spencer
Earl of Kimberly
Lord Rosebery
Market Report Duluth and Minneapolis Wheat Prices
WHEAT cash and futures prices listed for No.1 hard and No.1 Northern across markets in Duluth and Minneapolis. Hogs at South St. Paul weak to firm with 800 hogs receipts. cattle and sheep markets steady to quiet with specified price ranges for cows stockers steers and mutton lambs.
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Duluth
Duurth
Minneapolis
Hogs and Cattle Prices at Chicago Stock Yards Report
Live hogs market shows activity with shades weaker than opening. light hogs at 5.70 to 3.50, rough at 3.15 to 3.20, mixed at 3.30 to 3.45, heavy at 3.15 to 3.45. Cattle bids steady with beeves 5.50 to 3.40, cows and heifers 1.70 to 4.25, Texas steers 3.00 to 4.25, stockers and feeders 3.00 to 4.10. Sheep market steady to firm. Receipts hogs 35,000. cattle 3,500. sheep 10,000. Grain prices include Wheat 7 1 2 to 7 1 4, Corn 2 27 2 to 3?. Oats 17 to 18 1 2, Pork futures 37.37 to 3.07.
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T. Paul Union
South St. Paul
Chicago Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Jan
Texas
Week’s News Highlights From Capitol to Coast
Dan Ureedon defeated Tom Williams in four rounds at Albany. California Senator Perkins re-elected. Canada-US cattle quarantine to be abolished. George A. Buckstaff elected Wisconsin Assembly speaker. Allemannia bank reorganizing after suspension. New York New Haven Hartford dividend 2 percent. Milwaukee opens Hastings and Dakota division to Aberdeen. Fairbanks elected US senator from Indiana replacing Voorhees. Platt’s victory in New York Senate race anticipated. Consolidated Candy of Chicago barred from mails for fraud. Northern Pacific fined 100 for stock transit law breach. Secretary Francis nomination stalled in Senate but likely confirmed. Colorado Springs officials charged with embezzlement. Half of Bombay’s population flees plague. Oregon Senator Mitchell seeks re-election. Thomas J. Brown dies. Minnesota banks reported sound. Republicans nominate Platt for Hill successor. North Dakota bills against fusion. Ohio’s Governor-elect to appoint Hanna to Senate. Alfaro elected Ecuador president. Sir Travis Twiss dies at 88. Maharajah of Durhāngah relief payments. Standard Shoe Co. faces assignment. Chicago Gas dividend 115 percent planned. payout Feb. 25. Guy Wilkes to be auctioned east. British Pacific Railway forming. New York cheapest money center. Canada to reduce church influence in parliament. William I centenary in Berlin. US-Siam friction. a warship sent. Bishop Keane joins Vatican department. Joel Headley dies. Gas asphyxiation deaths in Roxbury. Dutch Guiana grants 1,000,000 acres to British syndicate. Morgan retires from army service. Boston Stock and Grain Exchange closes. Ohio coal operators approve higher mining wages. South Carolina liquor inspection deemed unconstitutional.
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Dan Ureedon
Tom Williams
Albany
Perkins
California
George A. Buckstaff
Oshkosh
Wisconsin
Allemannia Bank
St. Paul
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Milwaukee
Hastings
Dakota
Aberdeen
S. C
C. W. Fairbanks
Indiana
Voorhees
Medarto Alfaro
Republic of Ecuador
Travis Twiss
Q. C
Maharajah of
Durbhangah
Standard Shoe Company
Missouri Penitentiary
Chicago
Guy Wilkes
Fred Moody
Hazel Wilkes
Sable Wilkes
Muta Wilkes
Roxbury
Mass
Dutch Guiana
Michael R. Morgan
Boston Stock and Grain Exchange
New England
Ohio
Pittsburg
Supreme Court of the United States
South Carolina
Form of the bill on a bimetallic conference agreed
The Republican senatorial caucus in Washington authorized Senator Chandler to introduce the conference bill as drafted after discussions with Democrats. The caucus held in the senate marble room concluded no wording changes were needed to secure a conference with European nations. In Wisconsin, Governor Scofield’s message led to adjournment as lawmakers consider a pardons advisory board. In Dallas, fifteen children died in the Buckner orphan home fire.
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Senate Caucus
Washington
Senate
Caucus
Chandler
Walcott
Wisconsin
Madison Wis
Scofield
Dallas
Tex
Oats
Buckner Orphan Home
No Pay Dirt Found in Cincinnati Enquirer Exchange
A gentleman who quotes texts and a collector discuss promises and the fragility of human effort. The speaker hopes for payment or discovery but acknowledges difficulty, ending with a reflection on being poor clay. The excerpt captures a terse exchange about merit and reward.
Americans and French children and Canadian forest wealth
The Bentzon notes American children are lively and influential in a crowded society, while French dogs receive more sentiment elsewhere. The Northwest Lumberman recounts Canada’s timber role from early colonial forests to British demand, detailing shifts in Baltic and North American timber exports and rising UK shipments to 1,810,685 tons by 1895.
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Washington Irving
United States
France
America
Bentzon
Canada
Europe
St. Lawrence
Frisce
Great Britain
Baltic
North American
United Kingdom
Northwestern Lumberman
New Berlin Foundation Method Supports 20,000 T Structure
Berlin engineers use a central caisson with a cement form and poured iron base to support a building weighing over 20,000 tons. Two adjacent high walls prevent deep digging, so cantilever side walls brace the structure on the cast iron foundation plate.
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Berlin
Noah and Money Biblical coins and flood paper money tale
The cheerful idiot asks the pastor if Bible money included paper money at the flood. The minister replies he knows biblical coins, while noting the dove returning with the olive branch. The exchange ends with the Washington Times citation.
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Washington Times
Directions to patients from Boerhaave recorded in diary
The note advised patients to keep feet warm and head cool and trust Providence for the rest. The diary, opened after Boerhaave's death, contained blank pages except the final line. The executor released the line to the world, reflecting on the famed physician's humility.
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Boerhaave
Providence
San Francisco Argonaut
Hat flies overboard in seasick joke of captain and mother
A London Fun joke shows a mother lamenting as a captain informs her that her boy’s hat blew overboard because the string failed to break. The punchline reveals the string did not break, prompting the comic misfortune.
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Steamer
London
Washington Carved Name On Rock At Natural Bridge
The account says George Washington marked his name on a rock at Virginia's Natural Bridge while surveying for Lord Fairfax. It notes the legend of viewers who claim to see it. It also mentions Goethe began Faust's first part intermittently over about twenty years and the second part over twenty six years.
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George Washington
Lord Fairfax
Virginia
Goethe
Faust
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