Local notes on land sales and town road proposals
In this week’s county roundup residents discuss land sales with Schiffman planning larger lots and cheaper plots elsewhere. A county meeting seeks a levy to gravel and improve roads countywide under a Bibley county plan, while residents report general activity and concern over road quality and local affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autin Sporer
St. Peter
Searce
Nieulet County
Nowaday
Boris Af
Puint
Bibley County
Ewentod
Lydia Dawleiny
Bernadotte
George Rocohoe
Lafayette Notes On A Country Dance And Local Happenings
Special correspondence recounts a rural dance near Lafayette with local families attending. Names such as Epil Abrahamson Gust Olson Gust Ekblad Bessie Olsen Hanna Olson Jynna Jacobson appear alongside mentions of social visits, travel to Saint Peter and Minneapolis, and a grand jury proceeding in a rolling confrontation involving Ole Olson. The piece notes a late evening ride and a subsequent assault charge against Jacobson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jynna Jacobson
St. Peter
Grand Jury
Ole Olson
Lowe
Lafayette
Jacobson
Crane Bros Specials and New Patterns in Wet Goods
Crane Bros reports Scuimer goods still arriving and departing, new patterns very pretty, face cellars with fresh designs, some with protection collars. The McKay waist for infants children and ladies advertised as sensible and supportive. Torchion laces offered in varying widths and covertions, special bargain at five cents per yard. Canned powdered pests 106 Seeded rafning in 7 lb bundles per lb ten cents, dried apricots per can ten cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crane Bros
McKay
Howe
For Rent. Furnished Room in Saint Minnesota Street
For Rent one furnished room at 396 Saint Minnesota Street. Apply to Geo. Mute or W. J. Baxter at Nook Benak, NC. Message hints at a marriage or wife with Giles Gliven years. Mention of DeWitt Witch Hanel salve and remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
W. J. Baxter
Benak
N. C
Giles Gliven
DeWitt
Hanel
Coutts Bank Demolition Sparks London Sentiment
Londoners debate the approaching demolition of Coutts Bank frontage, famed as England's largest private bank with historic ties to nobility. The plan preserves interior features like Cipriani marble chimney pieces and portraits, while the dining room reportedly remains hung with Chinese papers sent by Lord Macartney during his 1798 embassy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coutts’ Bank
Bank of England
Coutts
England
London Telegraph
George Our King
Duke of Wellington
Johnson
Walter Scott
Monkeys Show No Proved Brain Localisation
A 11 year study by Goltz on a monkey with most of the left hemisphere removed found intellectual traits intact but motor movement on the right side impaired. The animal learned to use the right limb again only with difficulty and after extensive training with rewards, ultimately favoring the left hand.
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Prat
Stewart
Popular Science Monthly
Goltz
New Surgical Instrument Enables Painless Wound Closure
Dr Paul Michel of France has invented a wound stitching instrument using a sheath and nickel hooks. A minute of pressure releases hooks to apply 20 to 30 stitches along a wound without pain, as the epidermis only is penetrated. Benefits include easy disinfection removal after healing and minimal scarring. The device gains rapid adoption in major hospitals. An eighteen hour Dante recital by Prof Arlini of Naples impressed audiences as he recited the Divine Comedy nonstop from eight in the evening to two the next afternoon, moistening his tongue with sugared water between.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Michel
St. Louis Republic
Michel
Arlini
Naples
City Council Adopts Quarantine Hospital and Concert Plans
The Mecity council held a special meeting to approve a quarantine hospital for smallpox care and to appoint a consulting engineer for a city lighting plant. The Concordin Land offer for ten free concerts in German Park was accepted, with Second Regiment band compensation set at $200. Building permits were granted for a $1,000 brick addition at 10 In store, Minnesota Street, and a shingle roof permit for Crane Bro. was discussed. A meeting agenda included improvements requested by Frank Seibold and other property matters. The evening also to see a melodrama Knobs Of Tennessee at the Opera House and a discussion of various superstitions and customs related to footwear in different regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reineke
Mecity Council
Concordin
German Park
Second Regiment
Minnesota Street
Crane Bro
Tole
State Street
Powell
Frank Seibold
Charitable Chinamen and Strange Grave Customs
The piece notes that Chinese are generous yet the Hong Kong merchants gave coffins during the plague but did not send medical aid to compatriots. It describes grave desecration scenes where old graves are broken open, with heavy coffins or jars of clay containing bones showing how many died abroad.
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Hongkong
Australia
California
Wealth and public concern over monopoly power
A Review of Reviews argues that while private luxury of the rich is not the public's business, the public should scrutinize how capitalists gain wealth and secure franchises or privileges. The piece stresses that economic production dominates capital and that oversight should focus on how profits were obtained.
A Pleasant Change
Softleigh apologizes for self errors and Miss Cutting expresses delight. The conversation shifts to meeting another person as the Chicago News notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Softleigh
Cutting
Miss Cutting
Chicago News
Horrors of deadly bites and poisons across continents
A London Spectator excerpt surveys horrifying causes of death from a pea sized spider venom in Peru and South Australia to grains like bhat, a vine called knotter and hydrophobia. It describes agonizing pain, rapid deterioration, and grisly fates including cancer as the ultimate grim term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
South
Australia
Europe
America
Victoria
Daya
South America
London
Wallace and the Presbyterian Study in Theological Debate
A faded anecdote recounts Dr. Wallace MP refusing to supply a short article on a night theological topic, sending a 40 column manuscript titled The Relations Between the Presbyterian Church and Modern Thought. The editor and printer, baffled, reduced it piece by piece as readers wonder how to fit such a long contribution into a page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
North
London Academy
Notice to creditors in Alemann bankruptcy in Minnesota
The District Court in Minnesota announces the first creditors meeting for Joseph Carl Alemann of St Paul. Adjudged bankrupt May 16, 1901. Meeting at Room 431 Germania Life Building St Paul May 27, 1901, 10 AM. Creditors may prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of the United States
District of Third Division
Minnesota
Joseph Carl Alemann
St. Paul
Ramsey County
Germania Life
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G. Gebbart
Danheim
A. G. Schreiner
Adolph Cloben
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Ladies Missionary Society of the
M.E. Church
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Somal
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Gust Olson
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Wisconsin
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Wia- Theop
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Abrahaméon
Mineneapolia
Famous London Bank
Tennessee
Andy
Buntay Juve Bud
Opera House
Halsteid
Professor Black
Ireland
Isle of Man
Mme. Patti
Newark Standard
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Sol Uhre
Beck
Blaster
Market Report
Hess
Mil Dig
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Pont
Chicago & North Western
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Colorado
Utah
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Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Glenwood Springs
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Canrado
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The
Downing Medical Association
Erman Medical and Surgical Institute
Illinois
United
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United States
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Ills Innnerpolis
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