Dakota Dakota Territory a growing region with rail and farms
The era shows new courts and banks, a Dewey courthouse in Madison costing 14000, Sioux Falls penitentiary guards in uniforms, Aberdeen artesian well flow, and rising rail lines pushing settlement. Emigrant trains bound for the Black Hills, forests expanding, and real estate in Dakota booming as claims rise in price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls Penitentiary
First National Bank of Madison
Lake County
Madison
Templars Lodge
Alexandria
Dakota Temperance Alliance
Huron
Aberdeen
British Fertility in a Young Colonial Nation
John Burroughs notes in Century May issue that a large region shows rising population, vigor, and expansion as a new frontier society. He praises athletic youth, robust health, family growth, and pioneer hardiness, describing a fertile, energetic populace ready for empire expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
John Burroughs
Railroads under construction in Dakota and surrounding routes
A May newspaper list outlines several railroad incorporations and projects in Dakota and neighboring states. Major lines include the Fargo Southern from Fargo to Flandrau, the Tower City line, and numerous proposed connections such as Duluth to Yankton, Fargo to the Black Hills, and Saint Cloud or Sioux Falls routes, extending to Jamestown, Carrington, and the Missouri River region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankton
Capitol
Yar
Bismarck
Supreme Court
Territorial Council
District Court
Edgerton
Dakota Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress of the
United States
Washington
The
United 8
Congre
Samiles Square
Oeriod
Fargo Southern
Fargo
Flandrau
Dakota and Great Southern
Tower City
Dakota
Duluth, North Shore & Southwestern
Duluth
St. Cloud
Lake Superior
Willmar
Kota
Kyobi County
Southeastern
Lake Kampeska
Belfield & Er Hills
Deadwood
Internatial
Sheyenne River
Milbank Junction
Ransom County
Grand Forks
Pembina
Ordway
Frederick
Spiritwood
Grand Rapids
de Lake
Okoboji
Fort Buford
Memee & Southern
Beaufort
Aberdeen
Fargo, Larimore & Forthern
Mayville
Columbia & Southern
Columbia, Oak
Sioux Falls
Omaha & Northern
Press
Dakotaian
Birmingham Woman Captures Mouse In Household Feat
The 20 year old resident of Birmingham earns the moniker bravest woman after single handedly subduing a feral mouse. While others fled, she hunted the rodent with a stick bearing twenty nine notches, parading the captured prize to cheering relatives and earning comparisons to Joan of Arc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ion
Joan of Arc
Trollope Pranked by London Trickster at Holloway
A London prank unfolds when Mr Brown, a friend of Anthony Trollope, lures the author into Holloway’s shop in Oxford Street. Trollope meets a disguised Professor Holloway and is introduced to his “distinguished” host, who claims a tale of injury and a broken leg. The trick ends with Brown somersaulting off a counter as Trollope and the shop’s staff look on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Mellette
Anton and
Missouri
Lake
Watertown
John E. C. Wilson
Castalia
Woonsocket
John Brown
Seeret
London
Mr. Brown
Anthony Trollope
Ro Log
Holloway
Oxford Street
Glac
Nns
Trollope
D&c
Bates
Professor Holloway
Pra
Briggs
Chich Lenee
Mr. Briggs
Chichester
Ccu
Boepee
Fiery Mounts Record Eruptions Across Centuries
An 18th century compendium recounts Cotopaxi in 1738 throwing rockets 3000 feet from its crater and rumblings over 600 miles away, Tunguraga and Etna eruptions with lava flows and lakes, Vesuvius ejecting scoria and even stoves to Pompeii, and Cotopaxi sinking a block of 109 cubic yards across nine miles.
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Torre del Gree
Etna
Monte Rosini
Nicholgsa
Pompeii
Coto Hae
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Springfield
Santee Agency
Black Hills
Hope
Joymander Free
D Thenty Totakota
Onther
Daetheneral
Northern Pacific
Mitchell Republican
Mary E. Hannaman
William Hannaman
Indianapolis
Sanitary Commission
Uncle Sam
Charles Mix
Vermillion Republcan
Pierre
James Ri
Dakota Outlook
British Fertility
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Jamestown
Ee Ray
BCR & N
Chisago
Roth Island & Roy
Illinois Central
W. H. Voss
Las Doo
Ors] St and
Ohio Streets
D. T
Minnesota
Will J. Evans
Las, Orda
Gijcot Music and Music Books
Weber Piano
Northwest
Europe
East Third Street
Winona, Minn
P.J. Sweeney
Athy
Cultis
Co V. Durand
Chicago
Ony
Pee Pee
South Dakota
Buford’s
Bowe & Stiver
Haron, Dakota
Harnes
Carrigs
2Nd Street
Dak
Nash Bros
Real Estate and Law
East Third St
Huron, Dak
Geo G. Kelchner
A. W. Richardson
West Side Dakota Ave
Huron, Dakota
E- Barlow
Manufacture
Harness, L. E
Ren
Hieron
Pioneer Jewelry Store
Dakota Ave
Huron, D.T
Elgin Watch Factory
J. E.baker, Proj
Depot
Waller
Beadle County
M. Jeffris & CO
S. C. White
New York
Winona
C.D. Dunlap & CO
Third Street
Chas. Reed
John D. Rubidge
Reed & Rubidge
Real Heistate
Meferen
M.D. Hethiren
Tassiene
F. I. Fisher
Rockeanee Ets
Sun Boat
Choice Family Groceries
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