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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1885
Page
2
The notice lists subscription prices for one year two six months and three months in advance. It details charges for one copy for one year in advance and for six months and three months terms.
An assortment of short items reports debt figures in Hughes county and election frictions in Minnehaha and Sioux Falls counties. It notes a presidential candidate debate, postal law changes, and a land office appointment denial, with regional commentary on silk farming prospects near Yankton and constitutional act eligibility questions.
The Inter Ocean and Pioneer Press report two prominent Dakota Democrats named as heirs to the land office, suggesting a move to place them in the two positions. In Mitch ell South Dakota the Mitchell bank collapsed with White Lake branch funds in dispute as cashier Huysson protected deposits and reopened the bank after Judge Walling attempted to take possession.
In a humorous aside from the Dubuque Telegraph Democrat a writer notes the cicada or seventeen year locust eats nothing and has no appetite. The piece quips that it would be relief if half the office seekers in the country could be turned into cicadas.
The Chicago Herald describes Block Island as a quaint ocean resort off Rhode Island’s shore. It notes a 1881 resident physician earned $2.25 for medical attendance on 1,400 inhabitants and left unhappy after saying his health suffered while building a practice.
A messenger from Owen township reports a young boy in night clothes found dying in a field on Phelps farm in the O Harrow district after the Inte cyclone. He died within an hour. No kin or origin was identified. burial followed after no claimant appeared.
The article describes the Gatling gun weighing about 1500 pounds with ten revolving chambers and a main 18 inch barrel. It fires 120 cartridges per minute using a crank hammer system, with 240 rounds per feed drum and accurate performance at various ranges, including hits of 396 of 400 at 700 yards and 413 of 500 at 1200 yards.
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