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Newspaper
Mora Tribune
Location
Mora, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1896
Page
8
A playful verse from the New York Sun celebrates Betty riding her bicycle down streets and lanes. The speaker admires her eye catching attire, jaunty cap, and flirtatious glances while confessing a longing to chase her. Betty is described as young, lithe, and inviting, with a hint of mischief in her dash along the road.
Lady Brereton and Capt. Valence cross paths amid memories of a past romance. He returns from India to settle, seeks a suitable match, and proclaims true love to a woman he calls admirable yet unavailable. A tense mix of pride, longing, and social maneuvering unfolds as old affections are tested.
Steubenville Dispatch notes Berntje Fete or Nathan Porter of Crows Creek has survived numerous accidents that would kill others. He was kicked in the forehead by a horse and has fallen from apple trees without lasting injury. A log rolled over him, and he once ate ice cream at a picnic that sickened others but left him unharmed. A doctor once warned him he might die within two years, yet he outlived the prognosis and attended the funeral. Porter believes he could survive a powder mill explosion and continues lived with little fear of death.
The New York Advertiser correspondent notes Paris alight with cycling fever. Women and men ride through the Bois and Faubourg St. Germain, from duchesses to cocottes, all embracing the wheel. The Bois and roads to St Cloud provide scenes of chic attire, bloomers, lace hats, and café stops, signaling a new life for Parisians and thriving bicycle trades.
A Ninth street bar tale recounts a man who let a barber fashion a 23 inch mustache. The owner colured, waxed, and even heated gas pipe to curl the whiskers, impressing onlookers with the extravagant facial adornment.
A humorous domestic scene unfolds as Mary confesses tears over a tailor mishap. She sent bloomers for cleaning and the tailor creased them, prompting a commotion between Mary and John. The situation highlights a misunderstood expense and embarrassment in a Chicago Post item.
The Northwestern Immigration Association forms after a St Paul convention. Theodore Schurmeier is elected president and D R McGinnis serves as temporary secretary. Speakers include T M Daly of Ottawa and J J Hill, who stress Minnesota’s resources, coal potential, and need for state immigration commissioners. A permanent Northwestern emigration board is created to promote immigration.
J A Andrews discusses Manitoba and urges closer world English speaking unity for peace. P B Groat explores Artesian Basin of North Dakota showing irrigation boosts crops and land value. T P Keator fills in for Governor McConnell describing Idaho plateau health climate water power and vast lands for settlement.
At the St. Paul immigration convention at the state capitol the organizing committee moves to perfect the Northwestern Migration Association covering the Northwestern states and Manitoba. Theodore Schurmeier of St. Paul is nominated for president with D R McGinnis as secretary Ellis G Hughes of Oregon named first vice president Thomas Gilroy of Manitoba second vice president and H Conatry of St Paul as treasurer.
The committee named the organization the Northwestern Immigration Association. The morning papers covered Minnesota and Dakota agricultural history, Corn Belt expansion, and education efforts. J B Powers and J B Power of North Dakota spoke on Minnesota Northwest history and agricultural education highlights.
Hanlan won the fifth and deciding heat, earning three of the five heats and securing the overall English championship over Bubear. The race concluded the five heat series with Hanlan leading Bubear in total heat wins.
Reports from London detail a wreck feared in the British Channel after a gale. The Belle O'Brien of Thomaston Maine sent six crew ashore exhausted near Kerry Head. fourteen aboard were left aboard the ship which had sailed from San Francisco for Queenstown. Bodies of nine persons washed ashore near Finistere.
Henry W. Roddin, who vanished from Milwaukee thirty years ago with his uncle's money and was believed murdered in the South, has been located in Cherokee Iowa living with a Milwaukee woman he eloped with. He has eight children in the Cherokee family and was once a secretary for an Iowa company. He has since fled and is thought to be in Murray County Minnesota.
Lloyd Montgomery, 18, accused of murdering his father, mother, and D R R McKercher near Brownsville, made a partial confession to Sheriff McFerron. He claimed MecWercher killed the parents, then Montgomery killed MecWercher after being shot at. He denied killing his parents. Officers believe he will make a full confession.
Sioux Falls editor Mark Scott obtained a warrant alleging Van Buskirk threatened to kill him over a wife beating story. Van Buskirk allegedly warned of shooting Neetz if the article appeared. The case was dismissed after examination.
Senator David B Hill of New York makes his Western debut on the lecture platform at the Academy tomorrow night in Milwaukee. James J Hill, president of the Great Northern road, has extended courtesy of the Great Northern and Eastern Minnesota lines, with his private car at Hill’s disposal.
The year 497 accidents occurred to railway post offices with seven clerks killed and 178 injured, up from the previous year by 137 accidents and 27 fewer harmed. The report notes growing efficiency of the service each year.
Rome reports Pope Leo XIII remains in stable condition with Dr Lapponi noting no immediate danger. The pope should stay in his room due to the cold damp weather, preserving rest and health.
A World dispatch from Colon Colombia reports 500 laborers have arrived from Cartagena to hasten construction of the canal in a move described as advancing the work on the long hoped for waterway.
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