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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1891
Page
7
A flood of brief items from Oakiets and surrounding towns lists store sales, holiday goods, new drug and stationery ventures, coal deliveries, and upcoming social events. Mentions of Howland & Goodrich and Bittman reflect local merchants promoting cheap prices, while church renovations and community gatherings hint at mid winter activity. Names like Rev Tyrell and Flanders appear amid notices of illness, accidents, and legal actions.
Ludden notes cover social visits from T. J. Hassett and F. E. Cawley to Mrs. Holbrook and Miss Helferty, plus a Thanksgiving eve event in Randall's hall. It reports threshing costs, a push for farmer owned threshing power, the Ludden seduction case outcome awaited, a missing Howard Miller probe, a courtroom attendance, and local weather and community updates including a funeral notice and a farewell social in Roy's region.
The excerpt blends religious discourse on divine light and conscience with local notices from Enfield Center and Oakes. It also includes weather notes, agricultural updates, and community church announcements, alongside a long advertising-style life insurance policy pitch and railway ticket information. The document preserves a variety of names, places, and dates, reflecting a late 19th century newspaper page.
The Hudson Alliance to meet at the Hudson schoolhouse on Saturday December 12 at 2 PM. Formed as Brainard and Lockie, they will continue the farm machinery business of Scott and Root at the Union Street location, offering McCormick binders, mowers, headers, windmills, wagons, and repairs while expanding service and stock.
The December 1891 report shows total grain receipts for the three months ending late November in Minnesota and the Dakotas, with Duluth and Minneapolis receipts near 9,000,000 bushels each. Duluth shipments total 23,500,000 bushels while payments to shippers approach $1,000,000, signaling record movement for the era.
A telegram from Mazanillo Mississippi reports the steamship Roseville arrived at San Francisco wrecked and capsized. Survivors are unknown. 270 Gilbert Islanders and 29 crew aboard the Tahiti craft perished, with the wreck believed to have occurred two months earlier near Drakis Bay.
Reports from Minit, Towner, Fargo, Devils Lake and surrounding towns describe fever cases, church plans, geese killed, a bank burglary in Fargo, new stores and hotels, crop yields, and public notices. Notable items include a 114 year old Cavalier resident, a Napoleon veteran, and plans for a cooperative store near Grafton.
The page promotes Mas wixswows svormyc Syave a teething cure praised by nurses and physicians as a longtime universal remedy with a 25 cent bottle, alongside notes on fall and winter social entertainments, card sets offered by Cy M. Pratt, and various medical testimonials about consumption cures, with multiple patient stories and a lamp vote promotion.
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