Mitchell Capital News Briefs From May 21 1886
A collage of items notes Blaine as a 1888 prospect, Salem awaits Northwestern rail from that place, Mitchell grows as a jobbing center, and Ashton Herald business coverage. Wisconsin spent 14000 to quell Milwaukee riots, New York Times cites Arthur’s illness, and Chicago railroad talk stirs Bismarck. May Dakota Farmer issue touted. Cleveland gossip and McDonald Indiana speculate 1888 outcomes. Coachman elopement season starts. Vanderbilts niece remark. Dr McGillycuddy faces removal for alleged insubordination. Sparks clings to position while Jerauld county News rebrands as True Republican. Springs papers defend their quality.
Political echoes from a turbulent era and calls for reform
The piece cites Gen Rosecrans admitting hires to invade homesteads in California, questions Gen Sparks' fitness, notes Dakota bills moving in the House, and praises reform after the Alderman Jadine bribery verdict. It argues honesty pays and predicts Dakota admission by a Republican Congress while Beecher warns institutions endure shocks. It ends with a bold invitation to welcome anarchists and socialists as American citizens.
Dakota and Dakotans exchange locals and notes
An exchange mentions Uncle John Oliver of Fargo aged 74 joyful over a thirteen pound girl and his wife past fifty. J I Jacobs leads a July tour of Fargo and Bismarck conventions. Immigration Bulletin notes Dakota’s rapid spring growth since 1883 with high census citizenship gains. Northern Pacific to add weather signals on trains for 24 hour forecasts. Pierre Telegram notes Sioux on Poplar River seek leader Sitting Bull again but he cannot return to lead new scalp raids.
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John Oliver
Fargo
Milbank Index
J. I. Jacobs
International Sunday School Committee
Bismarck
Dakota
Jamestown
Northern Pacific
Pierre
Eight Hour System Reinstated by St Louis Furniture Firms
May reports from St Louis indicate furniture makers revert to ten hours after May 1 eight hour trial. Post May 20 lockout for workers who refuse the new plan. Other cities report varied labor outcomes including resumed operations and strikes settling.
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St. Louis
Southern Barb Wire Company
ChicaGco
Meta
Booming Dakota and the Wonders of the West
A 1880s promotional piece extols Dakota Territory as a land of opportunity with free farms and homes. It cites vast acreage, open settlement, dry bracing air, rich black soil, and abundant cereals. Stock raising and dairying are highlighted alongside a booming population and growing towns.
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America
Dakota
A Hotel Promotes Cyclone Cellar Attraction
A Dakota hotel advertises a cyclone cellar as a feature with a mock card by Slid eUnder House. It touts hot and cold air, an elegant cemetery in connection, and a perilous descent via flame leading to safety for guests. The copy ends with a death question to tempt patrons.
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Jay
Local Reader John McAulliffe Emerges as Reform Advocate
Fargo Argus notes a new caller, John McAulliffe, a longtime Weekly subscriber, expresses reformist views and willingness to challenge public matters in the name of change. His manner and theories are described as idiosyncratic and forceful.
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Fargo Argus
John McAulliffe
The
Argus
John
McAulliffe
Local Cyclone Cellars Underway At Court House Grounds
The article describes cyclone shelters in various styles including a seven foot deep, seventy five square yard court house cellar with marble slab cover and tunnel access. J K Smith and Prescott lead evacuations to safety with a daily drill and an electric warning system. Admission is $1 50. jail inmates barred.
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J.K. Smith
Court House
Smith
Prescott
Beuzeville
The Farmers Resort Opens In City Trade Plan
James S Foster announces a new farmers resort on Second and Lawler streets. A store and waiting room will serve lunch and supplies with toilet facilities for visiting farmers’ families. Fifty sheds arranged in rows will store hay and oats, rentable by the day with optional horse feed.
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James $. Foster
Second
Lawler
Mr. Foster
Local church meeting figures in Mitchell circulation update
Bijou Hills Times reports Rev. HW T Curl of Mitchell led a quarterly meeting in town and Castalia. His inspired discourse won warm praise and a first class audience is promised for Bro Carl when he returns. Letcher Blade notes Rev H D Wiard will move to Mitchell in June to lead Congregational missions and serve the area.
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Bijou Hills Times
HW. T. Curl
Mitchell
Castalia
Carl
Mt. Vernon
Geo. Dougherty
Dietrick
Geo
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Huronite
Miss Neling
Mitchell Public High School
Neling
Beadle County
Letcher Blade
Mitchell Republican
H. D. Wiard
Stewart Sheldon
Dakota
Congregational Church of
Letcher
Mr. Wiard
Farming acreage listed for several townships and towns
C B Rathbun of Rome township reports twenty five acres of wheat fifty of oats eight of barley five of corn. John Wetzel near Mitchell Sanborn county has eighty acres of wheat fifty of corn forty of oats ten of barley. N A Stahl Beulah township sixty acres of wheat thirty oats thirty three corn six barley and fifteen acres of flax. J J Wallace near Hazleton post office twenty five wheat twenty corn thirty oats. James and J B Ewart Lisbon township twenty five wheat forty five oats twenty corn twenty flax. Martin Blakesley Perry township fifty two wheat fifty corn fourteen oats.
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C. B. Rathbun
Rome Township
John Wetzel
Mitchell
Sanborn County
N. A. Stahl
Beulah Township
J.J. Wallace
Hazleton
James and
J. B. Ewart
Lisbon Township
Martin Blakesley
Perry Township
Frost Visits the Great Lakes Region and More News
Severe frost hits portions of Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois with other items including Boston post office revenue over 3 million dollars Philadelphia merchants fined for oleomargarine sales and a House session expansion. Boundary talks Alaska British Columbia and multiple criminal cases plus stock and weather notes.
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Philadelphia
House of Representatives
United States
Great Britain
Alaska
British Columbia
D. L. Harkness
Berlin
Wisconsin
Minneapolis
Waite
Jachne
New York
Frightful Prospect In Jamestown Politics
Governor Pierce faces a potential clash over a Sioux Falls constitutional incubator funded with 20 000 from territorial funds. If Campbellites set up a rival state government, Pierce would be obliged to enforce territorial laws and suppress the secession.
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Jamestown
Pierce
Sioux Falls
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