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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1890
Page
2
A reflective piece urges steady effort and perseverance to overcome obstacles. It emphasizes patience, hope, and consistent work, comparing life’s rewards to enduring hardship and the chance of eventual success. The voice counsels readers to stay focused and keep pushing forward.
A collage of jokes and quips from a late era page, featuring quick one liners about money at parties, poetry versus clams, family blunders, doctors, lawyers, and town life. It blends playful swings at social pretensions with mild satire of professions and local figures.
A Chicago architect outlines a plan for a colossal 3,000 foot diameter building with a 1,492 foot central tower for the world fair. The design features brick walls, a corrugated iron and glass roof, and exhibits in concentric rings representing nations. The roof would use 282,000 wires, and the tent-like structure could be erected in six months and withstand a hurricane.
The article surveys aging corn for safety in poor seasons, coop design for chicks to prevent injuries, and a proposed Farmers' Cooperative Brotherhood of the United States with a $50 million capital. It also covers barley varieties for export, corn silage versus dry fodder for dairy cows, Hungarian grass versus millet, Australian wheat losses, sugar beet and oat culture notes, and practical tips for cuttings of poplars and willows, plus fertilizer experiments.
A social literary club in a New KE land town hosts a well planned event with a distinguished lecturer. Mrs Brown and Miss Peters coordinate, a pianist plays after the talk, tea and chocolate circulate, and an unintended preoccupation leaves one guest momentarily deaf to sight and touch.
A man approached the central Detroit police station at midnight and told the sergeant he wished to surrender, according to the Detroit Free Press. The report notes the unusual timing and immediate surrender to authorities.
The old Benedict Arnold house on Water Street in New Haven’s Fifth Ward remains but decayed, with locals recalling its famed grounds and Arnold’s wealth and temper. Once part of West India trade, his property changed hands after his treachery, ending with Noah Webster and later D. Goffe Phipps’s family. Betsey Arnold's later alms-house departure also marked the tale.
Five Farmington women led by Mrs Jennie Roster and four others armed with axes and a rifle raided local saloons barred by the local option law. They smashed a wagonload of beer owned by August Tromson and seized beer supplies, prompting warrants for conspiracy and threats of prosecution as hostility grows after the night raid.
Fragmented OCR text suggests a high court decision on a matter labeled XMGA with unclear party names. The snippet references a ruling impact and potential partisan or organizational notes, but the readable facts are minimal and context is ambiguous.
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