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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1884
Page
4
The LaGrace Courier notes abundant fruit along the Missouri and mentions Seventh Day Adventists planning a Parker northwestern headquarters with a local bonus. A Grand Forks reception for Gen Sherman is recalled and a Bismarck oats anecdote highlights remarkable yields from single kernels.
Report notes Mr Beecher calls a $500 settlement generous after winning a woman’s affections and securing a child, with her later confined to a lunatic asylum and labeled a professional drunkard. Mentions racing men paying more for colts than any sire of record.
Excerpted wages from Hartsmian of Troy and Chetiy of New Hampshire compare Scottish mill pay to New York earnings in February 1854. The tables show daily wages for roles such as overseers carters spinners weavers and finishers and highlight a political argument about paying workers to British standards, urging voters to study the figures.
Mr. G. M. Shaw returns from a month survey with Brown and Bergen in Socorro county reporting a large alum deposit on the Chia river below the Little Gila forks. Cliffs rise 700 feet above the river bed. much of the ore is impure yet portions show potential for marketable alum amid abundant hot springs and trout in the Gila region.
A New York Hour weekly table reviews personal crisis reports across March and April. It notes 423 Americans, 221 Germans, 91 others, with 16 Irish and 3 French cases. Farmers top occupations. self inflicted death via hanging predominates. 22 maids, 123 bachelors, 108 husbands, 39 wives used it.
General R E Colston notes water is the key in the desert. Bedouins carry water skins and grain, subsist on camels and goats, barter for supplies, and exploit hidden water sources. Their economy hinges on water conservation and intimate desert knowledge, making an invading army struggle to feed and guide itself.
A dramatic description portrays Sergeants Long and Fredericks as acting with brutal selfishness by hiding 400 from the others, provoking indignation and calls for accountability. The report emphasizes disapproval of their conduct and the impact on unit morale.
A Nashville telegram reports a raid near Centerville where about forty men attacked the Martin Condon home during a Mormon meeting. Gunfire killed Gibbs and a Mormon elder, wounded Mrs. Condon, and another elder was slain as the mob pressed the residence. The attackers pursued a fleeing Mormon, while in a separate Arctic note, survivors of the Greely expedition endured starvation and internal conflict until relief ships arrived.
Tribune notes Roscoe Conkling is not dead politically or publicly. The Republican Committee seeks his influence to support the ticket, showing he remains a chief figure in the party.
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