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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1890
Page
7
A reminiscence recalls a Western Union Oswego office worker who, on hearing Lincoln was shot, improvised a bulletin before Western Union issued a formal notice. The tale details early telegraph practices, fear, and a career moment in a competitive era of news.
The Breslau Swimming Club held a 30 000 meter Oder crossing from Ohlau to Breslau with eight entrants. Swimmers must not land and swim in formation, with refreshments allowed from the boat. Three quit at 1 1/4, 3 3/4, and 4 hours, leaving five who finished after seven hours in good condition.
A Maine girl’s letter from Oberammergau is published by The Ellsworth American. Crowded crowds forced the writer and companion to sleep on a lounge with many lacking shelter for the night. She notes a kindly but deceitful angel who guided them and speaks of speaking German in the travel account.
Henry Herberts of Pater son New Jersey heard a burglar and waited seventy minutes before firing five shots at the intruder from ten feet away.
A Butte City merchant's dog swallowed a diamond stud, lunching on greenbacks and chewing British half hose as part of a curious appetite. The piece compares the dog to a refined bird dog and notes other oddities in loot and wares, including Irish Beleek ware, pink gold, and varied china pieces priced in the New York Telegram.
A recent canvass of Joliet prisoners lists around 600 men sent for the calendar, noting not all are martyrs. the record highlights the scope of detainees and the crowd processed.
A new grain storage method uses steel tanks. grain is placed inside and air is partially exhausted to preserve it, with acid gas emitted during the process.
The West Shore reports a sudden freshet in Washington State during spring rains. Water rose feet in hours, flooding lakeside cabins. A man awaiting flour and bacon from a neighbor discovered the lake had surged and fled, never returning to the lakefront.
A collage of quoted anecdotes and brief notices. It includes a youth exchange about faults and prayers, a Grant anecdote from Mattoon Illinois, notes on china bric a brac and Doulton ware, a brief Rialto quip about stage groans, and a snippet about Mrs Chaplin’s hypnotism of a hen.
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