Humboldt Kansas City in Legal Limbo Over Bonds
A Memphis columnist reports Humboldt Kansas has held yearly elections without qualifying officers for 18 years. Private subscription funds run the town, while bonds to finance railroads and a failed extension linger, risking outlawing the municipality as court actions fail to recover funds. W T McElroy leads the unqualified mayor slate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
Kan
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Junction City
Parsons
Southern Branch
Union Pacific
Fort Scott, Humboldt
Missouri Pacific
Humboldt Township
W. T. McElroy
Humboldt Union
McElroy
Iola
Fowls and Diphtheria Linked in Tunis and Italy
The British Medical Journal reports heavy fowl rearing losses in Tunis and Italy due to a throat membrane disease. Attendants on fowl farms show diphtheria symptoms. bacteriologists Loir and Ducloux identify the same bacillus in six cases, including a child with angina on a farm where fowls had diphtheria for six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunis
Italy
Loir
Ducloux
Printers' Lok Argues for Advertising Confidence
A brief note asserts that genuine belief in product quality justifies advertising, suggesting that visible promotion reflects trust in the goods and their merit. The quotation underscores marketing as a signal of confidence in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lok
Town Improvement Society Drives Village Progress in Sea Cliff
Sea Cliff New York forms village improvement society to uplift services. A nine member board oversees nineteen committees covering legislation taxation sewerage streets lighting schools and more. A free library reading room and drawing instruction are created and an electric light company with 20000 capital is formed. A sewerage plan is also pushed via a joint committee with the village board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sea Cliff
N. Y
Improvement Association
Typhoid Fever Germs and Airborne Transmission Theorized
Reports on Dr Licard of Beziers investigating typhoid transmission by air describe experiments where patients breathe into sterilized water. Water samples often yield bacilli, suggesting expired breath may spread infection alongside airborne emanations from sewers and cesspools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Licard
Beziers
Lonesome Towns In Lipari Islands Revealed In 1894 Case
Revising barristers at Castle Eden noted single residents in Nesbitt Birches and Wallerscourt townships who held all public offices themselves. George Brown and John Holland administered rates and duties, while Padre Michelangelo united multiple roles on a small Lipari island.
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Panama
Lipari
Alian
Mediterranean
Padre Michelangelo
Marine Telegraph
Castle Eden Inn
Castle Eden
Durham
England
Nesbitt
George Brown
Birches
Knutsford
Cheshire
John Holland
Wallerscourt
Eddisbury
Santa Cruz Settlement and a Vision of a Growing City
The narrator visits Santa Cruz’s nine houses, noting a pink framed hotel and a learned young man showing a grand blueprint of a city to rise on desert plains. He recalls wool shipments, productive pastures, gold finds at the creek head, and wheat cultivation experiments that “will doubtless succeed,” praising the boomer’s account above other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Cruz
California
Scribner’s Magazine
Talk Through the Home Paper Ad Strategy
A vintage note argues local papers aid merchants despite small readership. It asserts you reach more people daily at home than in six months via ads, reflecting a home papers advertising mindset.
Weather driven psychology and factory profits linked
A psychologist notes weather's impact on work output and behavior. He cites factory chiefs and rail workers showing lower productivity and openness on bad days, while fair weather fosters calm decision making and generosity. The piece discusses physiology, temperament, and mind over matter in adapting to climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Journal of Psychology
Phrenological Journal
Poker anteed by press men for a Sunday paper cash
Newspaper men play poker with stories as chips. A two person committee judged each man’s best short piece for Sunday print and allowed the pieces as cash to fund the game. They ante with a quarter column and play to a column head as the limit. New York Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Ball Lightning Survives Narrow Escape in Storm
The London Lancet reports a rare ball of fire hitting a Louvain surgeon during a storm. He was knocked unconscious as his umbrella burned away its steel frame, twisted in strange shapes. He credits the wooden handle for saving him from instant death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louvain
Owner chides race horse over weight at track
A humorous exchange from the London Quiver shows an owner telling Jiffkins the horse is over weight and to lighten up. The jockey jokes he is wearing his lightest suit and has trimmed his nails, prompting a shave request from the owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jiffkins
London
Bee's Season Honey Output Cited By Lubbock Authority
Sir John Lubbock declares that one bee, despite all activity and travels, cannot collect more than a single teaspoonful of honey in a season. The remark emphasizes the limited yield of a lone bee within a full cycle of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lubbock
Potatoes Stand Cold With Cellar Protection
Irish potatoes stored with a cellar endure ten degrees of cold, while without cellar storage a zero degree chill will not damage them.
Americans Safe in China Missionary Massacre Report
Washington reports that Americans are safe after the Ku Cheng killings in China. The dispatch notes no Americans harmed while ten British subjects were killed, with Consul General Jernigan indicating the reference likely concerns missionaries. The State and Navy departments consider protective steps and marine relief, despite limited light craft for river access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Ku Cheng
China
Jernigan
Jernigen
Olney
Denby
Navy Department
Pekin
Admiral Carpenter
Outrage at Ku Cheng Mission Ends in Multiple Deaths
A Shanghai dispatch reports ten British subjects killed at the Wha Sang mission and sanitarium near Ku Cheng Fo Kein. several others injured including Miss Codrington. Officials blamed. two Americans wounded but safe. editors urge firm action and punishment of officials.
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London
Shanghai
The
Times
Wha Sang
Ku Cheng
Fo Kein
Stewart
Yellow
Marshall
Saunders
Gordon
Steetie Newcome
Phillips
Fu Chau Fu
Cheng Fu
Hankou
Caes Szu Chuen
Standard
China
Large 6000-ton schooners ordered for Great Lakes service
Curiaco Aug 5 The Chicago shipbuilding company won the contract to build two of the largest schooners ever placed on the lakes. The vessels will be of the 6000 ton class and are to be constructed for the Minnesota Steamship Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Curiaco
Chicago Shipbuilding Company
Minnesota Steamship Company
Manitoba Receives Dominion Reply To School Remedial Order
The Dominion government's rejoinder to Manitoba's reply on the school remedial order arrived in Winnipeg and was delivered to the Manitoba government by Lieutenant Governor Schultz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Winnipeg, Man
Dominion
Manitoba
Schultz
Foreclosure Notice of Beadle County Mortgage Sale
Mortgage due on February 17 1893 by Caskie C Houghton to R O Richards Beadle County SD foreclosed by sale at public auction at the courthouse front door Huron SD on August 7 1895 2 PM The mortgaged property includes all of section six township 109 north range 61 west 640 acres more or less State of South Dakota July 1 1895 B O Richards Mortgagee Attorneys for Mortgagee First pub July 4 Last Aug 15
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Caskie C. Houghton
Beadle
South Dakota
R. O. Richards
Huron
County of
U. S
Beadle County
S. D
Boston Real Estate and Trust Company
Een
Charles ©. Terry
County of Columbia
State of New York
Beadly
Vnsai
S. E
Charles A. Terry
Notice to Take Tax Deed for Hicks Estate in South Dakota
Notice to redeem follows sale for taxes on East quarter of Section 10 in Beadle County South Dakota. Heirs of John Hicks taxed property sold to Fainak, now Waldo holder of purchase certificate. Redeem within sixty days. total due 76.31 plus future costs and accrued interest. Public notice dated August 1, 1991.
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Totes
Ireng
A.D
John Hicks
Wae
South Dakota
Fainak
C. L. Waldo
A . L. Waldo
G. R.williams
Ist Pub
First and Last Pub Dates Noted in Local Record
A brief entry records two publication dates on the local page: the first on July 25 and the last on September 5. The notice notes the span of interest or event coverage within the issue sequence.
Foreclosure Notice on Beadle County Mortgage sale
Public foreclosure notice for the 1895 Beadle County mortgage held by Garhard B Koster and Anna M Koster to Fred Zimmermann. Principal due, interest, and attorney fees total 1016.70. Property: NE quarter of Section 24, Township 112, Range 59, Beadle County SD. Sale at Beadle County Courthouse July 25 to Sept 5.
Beadle County Court Action Seeks Plaintiff Relief
The Beadle County circuit case lists Lucy T. Putman as plaintiff and names Horace Coon Hamilton Kerr H. Eva Kerr Harvey J. Rice and others as defendants. The summons directs defendants to answer within thirty days after service, filed April 1, 1895, with Beadle County Huron pages and attorneys Samota Vo or Hees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County of Beadle
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Lucy T. Putman
Horace Coon
Hamilton Kerr
H. Eva Kerr
Harvey J. Rice
John H Miller
H. A. Maxfield
Charless. Turner
Valley Land and
Irigaton —Any
Powers S Co
Pador B Co
Joseph _ R. R. Beebe
E Minne
E Minne A National Bank of Sioux Falls, and the County of Beadle
South Dakota
Circuit Court
Beadle
Sioux Falls
Minnehaha
South Ae
Battey & Voorhees
Minnehaha Yaonte
Samota
Notice of Tax Sale Redemption Beadle County
Beadle County SD notifies G O Donnell and G O Donald that land in section 20 township 113 north range 59 west was sold for 1891 taxes to R O Richards. Richards assigned to New England Loan and Trust Company which now holds the certificate. Redemption must occur within sixty days of service or a deed will be issued.
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South Dakota
Beadle County
G. O'Donnell
G. O'Donald
Said
One Hundred
R. O. Richards
NEW England Loan and Trust Company
New Enetanp Loan and Trust Company
Caxter & Brown
Ite
Estate of Andrew Allison Executor Notice
Estate of Andrew Allison deceased announces to creditors and claimants to present their claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims should be shown to Resert Allison, Executor, at his residence in Cavour township Beadle County South Dakota. Dated at Huron South Dakota June 21 195.
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Andrew Allison
Cavour
Beadle County
South Dakota
Huron
Allison
Mortgage Sale for Assignee L. C. Kathownae
A mortgage sale notice announces the transfer of property to the assignee L. C. Kathownae. Details on the property, date, and terms appear in the public notice.
Foreclosure Notice of South Dakota Mortgage on Huron Property
Beadle County sheriff sale set for August 9 1895 at two PM for mortgage default on October 29 1889 instrument by Albert Lovell and Laura Jane Lovell to Paul Carpenter of Wisconsin. Amount due includes principal 800 taxes 88.50 insurance 15 and attorney fees. property at Lot 4 Block 7 First Railway Addition to Huron. Paul Care and M Harrison attorney for mortgagee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Lovell
Laura Jane, Lovell
Beadle
South Dakota
Paul Carpenter
Wisconsin
Register of Deeds
Pera Ap Beadle
South Dak
Beadle County
Huron
Sioux Falls
S. D
Sheriff Sale Notice Beadle County South Dakota 1895
Foreclosure sale authorized by the Beadle County Circuit Court judgment will occur June 24 1895 at 2 PM at the front of the Huron court house The property 160 acres north half of section 15 township 111 north range 65 west lies in Beadle County South Dakota The sale is to satisfy a judgment of 513 dollars 15 cents plus interest and costs George W Longstaff sheriff and John Woop attorney are named parties
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
South Dakota
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Beadle
John Absher
Sophia H. Absher
Charles W. Absher
Nancy H. Absher
John R. Trevett
James B. Russell
George W. Longstaff
Commas
Huron
Het Beadle
Range Gamere
U. S
Grorce W. Lonestady
Beadle County
South Dakota Circuit Court Summons in Beadle County
The State of South Dakota files a summons in Beadle County District Court at Huron. Defendants must answer the complaint within thirty days of service or face court relief and costs. Filed May 10 1895 by attorney Joan Woon. Proceeding notes a June 7 1895 filing date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Beadle County
Allen H Risdon
James C. Weston
South Dakota
Beadle
State of
Huron
Joan Woon
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Humboldt, Kan
Patagonia
R. O. Ricwards
Ney
Summons
A. W. Burtt
Seers
Office and Post Office
Garhard B. Koster
Anna M. Koster Husban
Fred
C. Frep
Panera G
E. H. Arti
Ey Ag
Wectamnee
P. O. Huron
D. Firet
Sn 3 & Voorhees
L. C. Kathownae
Pavul Care Mortgagee
M. Harrison
John Woop
Court House
City of
Ee Cosety
Southakota
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