A Memorable Fourth in the Black Hills
A reminiscence recalls Deadwood’s early Fourth of July celebrations and Rapid City’s rival festivities in 1885 86. It notes rail construction delays, crowded camps, a huge drinking water shortage, and a grand parade, ball, and fireworks that sealed Rapid City’s lasting claim to a famed holiday.
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Valentine
Chadron
Buffalo Gap
Rapid City
Deadwood
Rapid
Black Allis
Buffalo Ga
Black Hills
Rapid River
Mickey's Ditch
Frank
Hugh McMahon
Harney and Sweeney
Kelly le Beau
Park Hotel
Jack Simmons
Fitch
J. B. Hawley
Buchanan
Morehouse
W. O Halsey
Messrs. Moore and
Luke
Fort Meade
Reel Overpeck
Tom Sweeney
John Bellen
Alter in His Cornfield Inspires Dead Rise Attempt
James Woodward of Peru Nebraska leads a small cult in a 40 acre cornfield altar ritual seeking to summon the dead. Followers opened graves at the town cemetery but the corpse remained lifeless as Woodward faced charges of insanity and awaits commissioners’ examination.
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Minneapolis Tribune
James Woodward
Peru
Woodward
Nun
Basis of Circulation and Advertising Costs
The piece argues that only printed copies count for advertising value and warns against overprinting. It cites Printers' Ink and Advertisers' Review, noting waste and returns affect cost but do not justify inflated circulation, urging publishers to print only what sells and report accurate numbers.
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Sys
Editors balk at supreme court fate in chaotic dispatch
A disjointed Paul Dispatch piece mocks editors for lacking ready opinions on the court ruling. It notes the attorney general was tasked to clarify positions while Justice Brown is portrayed navigating a risky position between hazards.
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Sit. Paul Dispatch
Supreme Court
Stration
Gene Knox
Justice Brown
Leyla
Charybdis
The Kerry Dances Recalled In Song
A lyric recalls the Kerry dances with piper tunes and youths in the glen. It laments vanished youth and bygone gladness while asking if a sweeter colleen than Aileen Moore or a prouder boy than Thady ever graced the floor. Dads and lassies assemble as the piper’s music returns with echoes.
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Kerry
Colleen
Glen
Aileen Moore
Thady
Anon
Royally Loyal a True Siete of July
Marie Sweetland, a nurse, hides a passional devotion to No. 20 a wounded cornet from the Spanish American War. On Independence Day she chooses liberty in love, while a Cuban flag joins the stars and stripes. The courtship culminates as he reveals his name, J. H. Merrill, tying their future to family ties and a civic romance.
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Marie Sweetland
Cuba
Marie
Santiago
Father
Ceil
Sara
Union City
Elis
Bates
Tien
Maurie
Sree Kurst
Muggins
Cupid
Sweetlands
Bonnie Harvey Nellis
Harvey Nellis
No. 20
Apollo
Learful
Hester
Mr. Sweetland
Mamma Sweetland
J. H. Merrill
Laves
Sherman
Day of Explosions Longing for Quiet Places
A Washington Star poem laments endless noise and danger seeking calm. It imagines a lodge in a vast wilderness or a boiler factory as respite from tumult. The speaker pleads for a place to rest, away from the incessant clang of machines and the din of daily life.
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Iheise
Washington Star
Fourth of July mishap in history class
A fragmentary recollection describes a July Fourth incident in a history class where a person named Nt lebradder suffered an eye injury and facial hair singeing from a burst firework. The tone is anecdotal with missing details and unclear chronology.
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Butts
Amusing Advice in a Horse Dilemma
Amateur Farmer asks Tit-Bits for guidance about a coughing wind-broken horse. A horse dealer replies to sell him quickly, illustrating the comic tone of the Washington Star snippet. Senator Sorghum comments on undeserving prospering and power without influence.
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Green
Mw Vsdservation
Washington Star
Sorghum
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Omaha Bee
Rai
Treat
Foxt Dao
Aevour & Bridge
Ebullitte
Deadwood Times
D. Kelley
Riley Moody
Sturgis Shankland
Chroniccle
Crow
Tor
J. KK. P. Miller
Beiden
the Saddler
Seth Feck
Porter Wwarner
Paul FR
Park Wtar Afoudy Vandise
Jist
Lons Go
Desdwood
John Belden
Hobos
New York Journal
Young America
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Society For the Prevention OF Noise
York World
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